"And in a move to “decolonize the curriculum,” professors at the University of Nottingham in Britain have dropped the term Anglo-Saxon. The course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies will now be titled “Viking and Early Medieval English."
"And in a move to “decolonize the curriculum,” professors at the University of Nottingham in Britain have dropped the term Anglo-Saxon. The course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies will now be titled “Viking and Early Medieval English."
"Anglo-Saxon" is largely a 19th Century Victorian affection, like "British". We've been the Englisc/Angelcynn since at least the Eighth Century. Among other things it leaves out the Jutes and Frisians, whose contribution to the English Settlement was not inconsiderable, and the Brythonic admixture; probably 40% of the whole and which seems to have happened far earlier than commonly thought. Cerdic, Ceawlin, Cedda and Cædwalla; hallowed founders of Wessex all carry Brythonic, "British" Celtic, names; and the better part of the Heptarchy was established around Romano-British civitates. Yes - I AM reclaiming "Diversity & Inclusion" as Early English invention! :-) Oh!... and mustn't offend our Northumbrian Correspondent by leaving out the considerable Norse contribution to the English Nation c.800-1100 AD. Bastard Normans needn't apply however. ;-)
"And in a move to “decolonize the curriculum,” professors at the University of Nottingham in Britain have dropped the term Anglo-Saxon. The course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies will now be titled “Viking and Early Medieval English."
This is complete lunacy!
"Anglo-Saxon" is largely a 19th Century Victorian affection, like "British". We've been the Englisc/Angelcynn since at least the Eighth Century. Among other things it leaves out the Jutes and Frisians, whose contribution to the English Settlement was not inconsiderable, and the Brythonic admixture; probably 40% of the whole and which seems to have happened far earlier than commonly thought. Cerdic, Ceawlin, Cedda and Cædwalla; hallowed founders of Wessex all carry Brythonic, "British" Celtic, names; and the better part of the Heptarchy was established around Romano-British civitates. Yes - I AM reclaiming "Diversity & Inclusion" as Early English invention! :-) Oh!... and mustn't offend our Northumbrian Correspondent by leaving out the considerable Norse contribution to the English Nation c.800-1100 AD. Bastard Normans needn't apply however. ;-)