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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    1. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

      [TW: racism] Published in 1906, Thomas W. Shore's "The Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race" attempts to give an archaeological account of the A-S "race" but some of its biggest debts are to scientific racism and phrenology. 1/10 #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/xIxhyJSITx

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      Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

      Shore was a UK geologist, who worked at what is now the University of Southampton. He founded the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society and was a prominent member of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society. 2/10pic.twitter.com/TR2Mr56mtc

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        2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          In his posthumously published book on the "Anglo-Saxons," Shore engaged extensively in phrenology. 3/10pic.twitter.com/OKxE4PeTcO

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        3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          Note particularly his citation here of one Ripley. That "Ripley" is actually William Ripley, one of the most notorious race scientists of the modern era, whose book *The Races of Europe* had a profound influence on scientific racism in the 20th century. 4/10pic.twitter.com/tafJjPZKXV

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        4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          Shore cites Ripley's book EXTENSIVELY throughout his book on the "Anglo-Saxon race." He also repeatedly cites John Beddoe, another scientific racist who rated the "European races" on a "Index of Nigrescence" that placed "Anglo-Saxons" far above "Celts," for instances. 5/10pic.twitter.com/mXukJwQB6X

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        5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          Scientific racists like Beddoe made much of the Anglo-Saxons. It should not surprise us that medieval studies occasionally drew upon these racists. 6/10pic.twitter.com/K8Hv3R584G

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        6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          Shore himself follow Beddoe in distinguishing between the "Anglo-Saxons" and those he called "the darker races" of Europe. 7/10pic.twitter.com/vDbEOO3bog

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        7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          Shore described the "Anglo-Saxon race" as transhistorical and as thriving in the modern Americas. 8/10pic.twitter.com/dkoKxxj5xf

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        8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          Shore saw himself explaining the modern "Anglo-Saxons" prowess of colonization, in part through the "vigour" the received from absorbing "people of other descent," including those of the "darker races" of Europe. 9/10pic.twitter.com/IVOfYqy2Nx

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        9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Dec 2019

          Shore's book is thankfully little cited and largely forgotten, but it stands as a marker of the connections between eugenics, scientific racism, and medieval studies that appeared at various points in medieval studies' history. 10/10

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