Those areas are not my particular specialism. More of a general statement about how racial ‘purity’ has always been an illusion, often appropriated by assholes on a generational basis. I refer you to the brilliant explanations by @ISASaxonists of what this field must learn in C21
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But I do think this about medieval Scotland- we look at that treacherous coast and the North Sea as a barrier. I think medieval people saw highways. International monastic networks. Trade, and the flow of cultures with it. It will take a while to unpick all the 19thC whitewash.
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I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on exactly that; whilst the North Sea was indeed a trade route for those peoples with the skills and equipment necessary to use it(frisians/hanseatic league) it's all north Europeans anyway..i don't see how it touches on the non-white topic
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I'm prepared to be wrong if someone shows me I'm wrong. It won't be the first time
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The evidence is thin, full stop-my beef is ‘purism’. But as a material culturalist when I see a Sutton Hoo brooch, I see not just an item to express power, but also trade and connectivity to the wider world. ANY category based on genes needs to be questioned when NeoNazis abound.
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Also: non-white Romans were present in Scotland and many soldiers stayed there. I suspect there is evidence of trade and movement, certainly we have remains of people from Africa in England.
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Here she is
@AdmiralHip coming to set me right again like the gang pulling up in the Mystery Machine to reveal the baddie in Scooby-Doo
. But surely the presence of some non-native Roman soldiers isn't enough to say Britain was ethnically diverse? Just as the presence1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Of English soldiers in 11thC Byzantine military doesn't mean there are grounds to claim pasty English people were present on the beaches of the Asia Minor
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There probably were some. We’re not saying masses and masses of people, but people travelled and moved. Merchants from all over, pilgrims.
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...mercenaries, bureaucrats, diplomats, functionaries....Heck, the Cistercians alone racked up zillions of those MonasticMiles! Studying history on the grounds of ethnicity is not nor can it ever be objective or credible. Come to the multiplicity side.....
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Archbishops, artists, writers, scientists, philosophers...many many people.
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