I'm catching up on the folk arguing for abandoning 'anglo-saxon', and some of the media response. It's interesting both as a sample of where public discourse about academia is at, and as a clean example of argument to abndn white supremacist dogwhistles Some links in a thread
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The case for abandonment http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/misnaming-the-medieval-rejecting-anglo-saxon-studies/ … Commentary (uk context) https://www.historyextra.com/period/anglo-saxon/professor-michael-wood-anglo-saxon-name-debate-is-term-racist/ …
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josh habgood-coote Retweeted Stewart J. Brookes
Times article (paywall) https://account.thetimes.co.uk/login?state=g6Fo2SBIY0FjVW4yRTQ4MDdzQWlWZTg2djdKczRaVUFKS21VbKN0aWTZIG9oZjFPS19kRGQ4b3NCTy1Xa2YwM0syT1dkRGhyaXJko2NpZNkgRG1zVTNCQm15bW9VWE9SblhvcXFycWlCTExLSTZJdko&client=DmsU3BBmymoUXORnXoqqrqiBLLKI6IvJ&protocol=oauth2&scope=openid%20profile%20email&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Flogin.thetimes.co.uk%2Foidc%2Frp%2Fcallback&nustate=eyJyZXR1cm5fdXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldGltZXMuY28udWsvYXJ0aWNsZS90aGUtdGltZXMtdmlldy1vbi1iYW5uaW5nLWFuZ2xvLXNheG9uLW5vcm1hdGl2ZS1jb25xdWVzdC1iOTZjeDNrN3oiLCJzaWduVXBMaW5rIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9qb2luLnRoZXRpbWVzLmNvLnVrLyJ9 … Summaryhttps://twitter.com/Stewart_Brookes/status/1192762765557022722?s=20 …
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Stewart J. Brookes @Stewart_BrookesThe@thetimes have weighed into the Anglo-Saxons discussion. Here’s a summary of their piece: 1)@ISASaxonists has argued that "Anglo-Saxon" is pseudohistorical & only became popular in the 1700s & 1800s. 2)@john_overholt supports this, noting that the term aids white supremacyShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
josh habgood-coote Retweeted Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin
The shift from abandonment to bans, or 'purges'https://twitter.com/AdmiralHip/status/1193543466854309890?s=20 …
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Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin @AdmiralHipWhite scholars who keep perpetuating this idea that we want to “ban” Anglo-Saxon are a) perpetuating far right rhetoric, b) ignoring that the academic community is international, c) paying lip service to the idea that racism is bad but not standing up against it#medievaltwitterShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
josh habgood-coote Retweeted Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe
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I'm not a historian, so I may be missing important bits of info/context
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
One thing I should have asked: are there lots of other terms that historians have made the case for abandoning on either political or clarity grounds? (I'm writing about why to abandon fascist nonense, and trying to pick up examples from other disciplines)
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Yes: Dark Ages, Celtic, Germanic (as ethnonyms), feudalism, Aryan, there are probably much more. You might still see them used, because people do still use them but generally scholarship has moved past these.
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