@civilwarbore and I mean that. Most people's idea of history means the history channel, and that's it. Their brains turn off when I talk.
@civilwarbore so I'm also talking about the ethnic tensions between the Anglo-Saxons and British/Welsh, but also within the Anglo-Saxons.
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@civilwarbore since they were far from homogeneous. And THEN I am discussing why the Anglo-Saxon identity crystallized around Alfred's time -
@civilwarbore and his motivations for ethnogenesis, basically. so it was a response to the internal and external pressures of the time. - Show replies
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@AdmiralHip if I weren't married I would propose. I just read Geraldis Cambrensis's book on Wales, in which he refers to only the Welsh as +Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AdmiralHip + "Britons". Forget what he called the Anglo-Saxons, because I immediately moved on to Skene's "Four Ancient Books of Wales" -
@civilwarbore OH GERALD. Yeah that is much later than my period but it is relevant overall. British identity was still a thing then. - Show replies
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