Misnaming the Medieval: Rejecting "Anglo-Saxon" Studies
@ISASaxonists on a racist history in medieval studies:http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/misnaming-the-medieval-rejecting-anglo-saxon-studies/ …
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Yes, I'm fairly certain that's how things played out but both words were common in the 19th century. Thanks again for jumping in and saving my mentions,
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Yeah, both were used for nationalistic purposes, but afaik Celtic wasn’t used for the English although certainly in wider discussions of Britain it was but in ref to the “Celtic” speaking peoples.
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They were used pretty much interchangeably until the 1760s. Thomas Percy, one of the most significant instigators of pre-Romantic medievalism, produced three publications with the explicit purpose of arguing the Celts and Goths were racially different 1/2
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They are 100% foundational texts of medieval studies, especially English lit and Norse studies. They make the foundations of the field SUPER racist and the 19th century stuff mostly follows them but with Anglo-Saxonism on top
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Yes, I wrote a piece that grappled with this kind of stuff in the Journal of British Studies on the French affinity in Irish nationalism...
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