A not-especially-plausible defence of the 'Dark Ages' for your reading pleasure :)https://twitter.com/Pseudo_Isidore/status/737551724697681921 …
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Ofc, I may be biased as I wrote a PhD+book arguing that not wholly 'lost'/Dark in eastern England (http://www.caitlingreen.org/p/britons-and-anglo-saxons-lincolnshire.html …), but still..! ;)
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For what it's worth, some old musings on 5-6thC history & terminology in the Lincoln region: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/01/lincolnshire-anglo-saxon-or-sub-roman.html …pic.twitter.com/LQleBWNQbL
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Just in case anyone wants to claim Britain is uniquely 'Dark'+so deserves 'Dark Age', 2 modern writers on Gaul/Italypic.twitter.com/Bioj0W2I5u
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was not preventing a fleet to be built manned and cared for enough to cross Channel trying to invade Gaul Not so dark then
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Plus Procopius tells us of 6thC 'Anglian' fleet coming to continent and intervening too!
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I'm sure that's not the first time you have cited Procopius. Makes me feel i need to be more familiar with them
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He has some fascinating bits: cited some in these two blogs :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/anglo-saxon-finds-france-africa.html … & http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …
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very interesting. Im still of the opinion tho that the Heptarchy owes most to the Biblical 7 than any reality
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what of Elmet of Lindsey not to mention the Wealhs kingdoms+if Augustine able to discuss w/other local bishops
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well, suspect heptarchy is a product of Mercian supremacy, perhaps, forned as idea after loss of Lindsey etc?
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from Offa days or earlier Wulfhere&brother?
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TBH it is LittleEnglander because it supposes that it was tougher harsher more cruel for Britain than for the rest of Europe
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Can't disagree---clearly lots happening on continent & described similarly to Gildas + similar changes in evidence base too!
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we did not Romans had and we gladly accept them We call it Iron Age Tene civilization but we do not call it dark dark is daft
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Very true! The term 'Dark Ages' is ridiculous+needs to be retired... but later medievalists/modernists etc esp seem to like it :/
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btwn us 2 it is racist implying Britain inhabitants unable to keep records along Continentals plight was much ado abt nothing
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point about Justinian plague and flux 7thC and 8thC up to ChMgne + Alex Library fire + under Islam expansion = "dark" (not?)
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sorry I am ranting and not at you but you as a community have no idea how the name dark ages grates on continental ears
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an chap from Britain trying to invade his Kingdom in Aquitaine Riotamus? Rather it suggests Whatever was happening in britain
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