Some sensible points relating to current debates on terminology in this thread here, fwiw :)https://twitter.com/DrLRoach/status/1184428446144978944 …
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And no one is saying we have to stop citing works that say Anglo-Saxon either. But if it makes the field more inclusive to move past harmful terminology then defending its usage and denying its harmful past is not useful.
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I would hope no one is saying to stop citing works that say Anglo-Saxon. That would be bad scholarship. Using it and referring to previous work as such makes sense, but we can change our usage in our work.
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I don't think you are, no worries :) On the well-documented, I would simply note that the fact that the usage of AS as a modern ethnonym is a secondary, 19thC development in the post-medieval era doesn't seem to have featured in what I read of the debate on here. On the other >
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> hand, no-one is doubting that such usage *did* emerge and has been used in deplorable contexts!
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