Nice to see some steam picking up in the field of archaeology about the term "Anglo-saxon". Not sure if Dr. Roberts knows the current discussion in medieval studies but I'm glad she's tapped in even marginally. She's also one of the coolest biologists around. #medievaltwitterhttps://twitter.com/theAliceRoberts/status/1186545929429626880 …
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It’s interesting to me because that article is based on a book that is rethinking the invasions/migrations although the woman who wrote the book still uses the term even now? Idk. People have made very good points that her model doesn’t account for language/cultural shifts.
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However, I do think that the term needs to be ditched. Archaeologists have been pointing out how vague AS was for a long time. It doesn’t account for multitudes of people from the continent or the fact many English kings had British names, etc.
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And y’know what, when I think about it, I’ve read lots of older scholarship that talked about how poor of a term Anglo-Saxon is. This pearl clutching shit lately reads very poorly in that light, especially given that the ppl being terrible wouldn’t bat an eye...
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...at the plenty of older discussions saying we should find a different term because it doesn’t accurately reflect identity from the migration period or onward.
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Yes, it has a lot to do with the fact that it is being tied up with racism and people don't think that's important enough on its own to interrogate its usage. They (esp. literary scholars) need that vigorous academic research to back things up, although it exists in other fields.
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