#Saxon

The ancient O Antiphons of the last days of Advent are best known today in the form of the hymn 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel'. But centuries earlier they also
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#medievaltwitter, it's been like 2 days since racist Brits were claiming they're "Anglo-Saxon". British [Welsh this time] person laying claim to "Celtic Anglo-Saxon Homeland" & spouting racist, Islamophobic g
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'Eala earendel, engla beorhtast, ofer middangeard monnum sended...''O Earendel, brightest of angels,sent to mankind over middle-earth...'The midwinter solstice, the Anglo-Saxon version of 'O Oriens', and the light of
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1/ I too watched #TheDig last nite. While I loved the superb acting (C.Mulligan wrecks me time & again), beautiful cinematography, & tender humanization of the archeological dig, I felt
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James Hawes notes that Harry Potter turned round the fortunes of public schools. Their products now over-dominate acting, media, sports, Oxbridge. But have state schools and universities learnt from this
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John Hines speaking on "Anglo-Saxon" at the Society of Antiquities. #MedievalTwitter"Topic of this talk is generalization." "The sort of generalization that puts a universal label on specific period is universal.&qu
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I want to summarize a recent article by Dave Wilton that uses linguistic corpus analysis to see how the term "Anglo-Saxon" is used generally across the world. Spoiler: it's primarily
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I was born in the borderland - in Coventry, in the county of Warwickshire. Or at least it was in Warwickshire when I was born - a few years after
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Ok, no time like the present to talk abt the term "Anglo-Saxon" more seriously w/ some resources. These ppl here in this clip are exactly the types we are often
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'Lincolnshire Fenland Lidar' by Steve Malone — fabulous images of ancient watercourses in the Witham valley and Lincolnshire Fenland https://academia.edu/5807526/Lincolnshire_Fenland_Lidar The Witham valley in Lincolnshire from Ba
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LRT: the "possessive S" is also known as the Saxon genitive and wholesale murdering it to resolve phonological incongruity in an Austronesian language like Te Reo Māori is, in my
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Interesting this 'British history' podcast muted a thread by a qualified PhD whose area of expertise is exactly what this wyte dude argues against. He's not qualified, but thinks he's
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When doing a land acknowledgment, please take the time to learn how to pronounce the tribe, pueblo, and/or community name. Mispronouncing it is rooted in settler colonialism that teaches us
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Which British churchmen corresponded with/visited/were taught by whom across the 5th & 6th centuries before Augustine arrived in 595? Richard Morris’ figure of those personal connections suggests the possibility of
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This is hilarious but there are perfectly respectable US social scientists who believe the same thing, and it’s going to get worse. (thread) /1https://twitter.com/BadChinaTake/status/1336535161652043776 e.g. prominent political scientist
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The 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle hoard, found 1774 in an old tin-working near St Austell, Cornwall: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1880-0410-1-3 The Fuller Brooch, a late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello br
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