Excellent post! You probably already know this, but your opening question is an excellent one on so many levels.
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Thank you. I sometimes suspect that labels are treated as an end itself rather than a gesture/ route somewhere else (and I suspect that is why you bracketed it with the other post?)
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Many national labels do have such a history and present of course eg English. As historians we contest these the same way: with sensitivity, listening, using evidence and rhetoric carefully.
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A counterfactual question I've been pondering: would similar issues plague "Frankish Studies" if the Carol/Merovingians had switched to a vernacular as an "official" language of administration? Or anachronistically: as a language that could be seen as representing the state?
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Like, the writs and Alfred's translation efforts surely must've fed into the creation of "AS" studies as a separate discipline in the context of 19c academia?
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