Actually I don’t think using early English as an alternative is better. It places “England” as a teleological outcome and makes it homogeneous (“English”) instead of the plurality that Anglo-Saxon implies (even if some now aren’t reading it that way). That’s my personal opinion.
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Because the Neanderthal genome sequencing was released 6 months after I purchased that textbook, which said that we have no relation to Neanderthals. Also, people were saying Anglo-Saxon England. Removing “Anglo-Saxon” and replacing it with “Early Medieval”
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Is in fact more inclusive of the multitudes of identities at the time.
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It is a recapitulation of the argument concerning the “Dark Ages” IMHO. The field question its veracity and utility and decided its time had passed. Nothing is so changeable as the Understanding of the past.
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