Plus, of course, describing the early Anglian & Saxon kingdoms as ‘English’ would be as anachronistic & distorting as describing Clovis as ‘French’.
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Tom Holland Retweeted Danilo Giurdanella
Absolutely. The very contingency of the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’, the way it was constructed by Alfred to signify the emergent kingdom of what would become England, & to be back-projected onto an imagined past, is what makes it so useful.https://twitter.com/zaidasevilla/status/1192717074705125376?s=21 …
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Tom Holland Retweeted Dinah Rose
It’s basically a projection of an academic culture war in the US onto the very different circumstances prevailing in this country. One might almost call it colonialist.https://twitter.com/dinahroseqc/status/1192718403569668097?s=21 …
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Replying to @ISASaxonists @holland_tom
He also posted a rather hilariously bad article several months back too I believe although I’ve scrubbed it from my memory. Oh and he supported that god awful transphobic letter from several months back.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @holland_tom
Look. I didn't know who this guy was until yesterday and thought it was the guy who played Spiderman.
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The real historians are the ones without PhDs, since they don't have to worry about pesky stuff like "context", or "language", or "doing translations", because they don't have to "actually learn the languages that sources are in" and can concentrate on racism.
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remember when he got really angry about academic conferences because he didn't know about abstracts so thought people were always invited to speak at them while he was condemned to speak, for money, at cosy all-white-men soirees organised by Niall Ferguson
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LMFAO omg
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