It’s a fair point, but historical labels tend towards anachronism. @ISASaxonists is the person to ask. Not many people in the period would identify as Anglo-Saxon so it is a head-scratcher why people in the field would fight so hard for the label.
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @DollyJorgensen and
If we are speaking to population diversity, and would wish to describe the population of Early Mediaeval England, we’d call it Anglo-Saxon-Jute-Romano-British studies one would imagine. In any case, it less about terminological exactitude regarding a period which has been
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @DollyJorgensen and
notoriously difficult to document. Call it the Vulcan era for all I care. But AS is a term which has a context far outwith a label describing certain people in a certain place. It is self-evident. As someone who has a deep regard for historians and their struggles with public
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @DollyJorgensen and
engagement, I support every small initiative to make the discipline more welcoming and inclusive. And let’s be clear: changing a label is a very small thing indeed.
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @dorsetexile83 and
I guess that’s where I disagree and where I see the problem. A-S is not just academic term, it’s in school books, curricula, archeo sites, popular books, etc. There are misuses but that’s not the majority of use by any stretch. In that way no different from Viking as term.
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Replying to @DollyJorgensen @dorsetexile83 and
There is room for respectful disagreement and as I am not in the field I have to listen to interventions by scholars who know the subject. I’d say that 1) AS is a descriptive label. Such labels change over time to reflect both the development of a field and wider societal usage.
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @DollyJorgensen and
2) the investment in the term seems to be disproportionate. Which leads me to suspect bad faith on the part of some (not all) who are most vociferous in their desire for its retention. I believe the wider cultural context and history of the term informs this more than a concern
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @DollyJorgensen and
for terminological exactitude. AS a term has undoubted utility, however one is prompted to question whether that utility can be weighed against its wider cultural misappropriation. I believe it cannot. There are good arguments on the question to be sure.
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @DollyJorgensen and
As someone in the field, Anglo-Saxon has a limited contemporary usage and people of that time didn’t ID as such. And just because it’s in schoolbooks etc doesn’t mean we shouldn’t move past it. There are plenty of terms we have gotten rid of.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @stmarnock69 and
And that argument is silly because it assumes that we don’t already make changes or advocate for changes in scholarship. When I was in my undergrad my archaeology textbooks became incorrect the year I purchased them
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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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @stmarnock69 and
Is in fact more inclusive of the multitudes of identities at the time.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DollyJorgensen and
My way of thinking is that tying a period to a contemporary geographical area has greater utility than calling a period “Anglo-Saxon”. No Jutes? No Irish? No Ramano-Britons? England has always been a place of many peoples. IMHO if we wish to label that period, geographical
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