A not-especially-plausible defence of the 'Dark Ages' for your reading pleasure :)https://twitter.com/Pseudo_Isidore/status/737551724697681921 …
-
-
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
Dismisses all other names as "potentially misleading" etc, but this judgment surely applies to 'Dark Ages' far more than any other....!
4 replies 5 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
Suggests useful if *somehow* ignore pejorative connotations(!!) & use to mean ‘lost centuries’ due to difficulty of knowing what happened...
2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
But even if could strip of such connotations, not convinced that these are ‘lost centuries’ & so historically unrecoverable that=Dark Age...
19 replies 0 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
was not preventing a fleet to be built manned and cared for enough to cross Channel trying to invade Gaul Not so dark then
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @morangles
Plus Procopius tells us of 6thC 'Anglian' fleet coming to continent and intervening too!
3 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen @morangles
I'm sure that's not the first time you have cited Procopius. Makes me feel i need to be more familiar with them
4 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @MarkBrierley1 @morangles
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 …
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen @morangles
very interesting. Im still of the opinion tho that the Heptarchy owes most to the Biblical 7 than any reality
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @MarkBrierley1 @caitlinrgreen
in 597 it implies that other bishops were a reality From where said naughty proto-Welsh bishops who defied him
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
And the possible Essex based Romano-British priests who had cult of local St Sixtus still?!
-
-
Replying to @caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1
indeed 409-597 need candid reassessment not filial attachment to academic traditions +using Brittany sources
0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.