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 @ISASaxonists and
true! Egyptian schoolbooks kept the story that Charlesmagne‘s retinue destroyed the water clock sent by Caliph Harun al-Rashid long after it was debunked as legend. Just too good to let it go as it displayed supposed Medieval ignorance and backwardness even. at the court.
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Canadian textbooks are filled with all kinds of inaccuracies. I never learned about modern First Nations people until I was an adult. We were taught Greek myths as history.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
There is a good resource on history schoolbooks if a little incomplete at the moment. http://Worldviews.gei.de
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