Hi Loura I'm new to this topic and find it interesting. Could you expand on it? For example do you mean that medieval Scotland was majority ethnic? Or the Kingdom of Aragon say post fall of Zaragoza?
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Replying to @dorsetexile83 @ISASaxonists
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
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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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Religious peoples moved to study in Britain from all over, others traded from far and wide. We have material goods from N Africa and the ME and Asia in Britain and Ireland.
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But trade doesn't necessarily prove that people from outside of Europe settled in Britain. Catalan cloth merchants would spend 6 months hustling in North Africa then go home, nobody's saying that Algeria has a mixed European heritage
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There is good research about the genetic traces of the Roman armies. The best archers were from Syria. They would serve everywhere. And often enough they took a wife or a consort. That has been proven for Southeast Germany and pretty much is true for all garrison towns.
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There is an inscription in the National Museum of Scotland from a freedman who I believe was from North Africa to his wife. I cannot recall the details but they lived there, they enacted something permanent on the land.
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Also, you skeptics should abstain from claiming Algerian Augustin. The pictures of him are probably not doing him justice. He's a Berber and would probably be sent back to Algeria today.
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