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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The discourse around the term, and its usage in various countries (especially the U.S. versus U.K.) is getting traction now outwith the field. FWIW I am a layperson and am horrified by the AS institutional arguments. AS isn’t a neutral term regardless of U.S. or U.K. AFAIK
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @ISASaxonists
I wouldn’t speak to anyone in the field but
@theAliceRoberts would be someone I think could contribute to how the term may be approached.2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
From my own perspective:I grew up in the U.K. watching the Time Time programme. Amazing stuff. “Anglo-Saxon” was never contextualised in anything other than a periodic way AFAIK. (They were archaeologists rather than historians - as far as as I knew).
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You must be familiar too with Michael Woods? Even he is interrogating his usage. That is HUGE!
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This is amazing to see that people outside the field are hearing the discussion. FWIW, my experience on here has been that most people have no problem dropping the term other than medievalists (and racists). Changing our terms is an easy form of anti-racism!
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Replying to @erik_kaars @ISASaxonists and
The weird discussion from a few weeks ago about a lack of public engagement certainly seems to be not the problem it was made out to be. People are seeing and engaging.
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I think the desire from experts is there (and has always been there) but if you look at the amount of money put into bizarro world nonsense
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @AdmiralHip and
I grew up with
#timeteam@CarenzaLewis@theAliceRoberts This was what history meant. People on the ground working hard, checking sources, not shouting about UFOs. People on the ground showing us how evidence is found.1 reply 3 retweets 20 likes -
Replying to @stmarnock69 @AdmiralHip and
I've always liked
@billybragg saying the hyphen in Anglo-Saxon is the important bit because it makes our hybrid/immigrant culture and ancestry explicit!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Uhhh nah.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @MartinB_Archaeo and
I see he meant well probably but anyone who IDs as Anglo-Saxon is suspect at best. Plus the migrations are poorly understood and may not have been from Angles or Saxons or Jutes anyway. Identity was complicated.
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I’m not someone with a post-Roman academic background. I don’t have any background to speak of about post-Roman history in the British Isles and/or Northern European History in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieaval period.
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