Would this have been the prevailing sentiment towards Anglo-Saxon culture and history back in the 1930s when the Sutton Hoo excavation was taking place?
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Replying to @MDArcheologist @MiraAssafK
Would what have been the prevailing sentiment?
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @MiraAssafK
Would historians / archaeologists in the 1930s have felt that Anglo-Saxon represented a culture that "was not the dark ages" and viewed them favorably over Vikings and/or Romans?
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Are you asking if the show is depicting people glorifying the "Anglo-Saxons" (which is an inaccurate and ahistorical term especially for Sutton Hoo) rather than glorifying them themselves?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @MDArcheologist and
Sutton Hoo and the treasures found there have often played into English nationalism since it's been found, and archaeology at this time was often extremely racist and based on promoting a glorious (and white) past.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @MDArcheologist and
So the problem with just showing C.W. Phillips saying they had art and culture over the "savage" Vikings plays heavily into that as it does not appropriately reckon with the racist and nationalist implications of those statements.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @MDArcheologist and
But I find it unlikely they would have seen them as "better" than Romans...since Rome is still held up as an ideal of "western civ".
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Which is also a white supremacist and white nationalist ideal, for the record.
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