The G.K. Chesterton school of Anglo-Saxon history

This video is about ideas I flippantly refer to as the G.K. Chesterton approach to historical research. He’s misquoted as having said ‘to catch a thief you need to think like a thief’. My take is along the lines of ‘to understand Anglo-Saxon culture you need to think like an Anglo-Saxon’. A more serious title for this video would be ‘Continuity of Anglo-Saxon worldviews’. Either way, key to all this is something the Venerable Bede never mentioned…
Links
The Myths of Reality
www.hoap.co.uk/alternative.htm#TMOR
Continuity of Worldviews in Anglo-Saxon England www.hoap.co.uk/catalogue.htm#aswv
Souls, Spirits and Deities
www.hoap.co.uk/catalogue.htm#ssd
Continuity of Anglo-Saxon Iconography
www.hoap.co.uk/catalogue.htm#coasi
Sources
G.K. Chesterton, “The Return of Don Quixote”, (1927).
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, “The Social Construction of Reality”, (Doubleday 1966).
John R. Searle, “The Social Construction of Reality”, (Simon and Schuster 1995).
Jonathan Potter, “Representing Reality”, (Sage 1996).
Ronald Hutton, “The Druids”, (Hambledon Continuum 2007).
David Petts, “Pagan and Christian: Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe”, (Bloomsbury 2011).
James C. Russell, “The Germanization of Christianity”, (Oxford UP 1996).
Wade Tarzia, 'The Hoarding Ritual in Germanic Epic Tradition' in “Journal of Folklore Research” Vol.26 part 2 (1989) pp99-121.
Graham Harvey, “Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding religion as everyday life”, (Acumen 2013).
Audrey L. Meaney, “Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones”, (BAR British series 96 1981).
Karen Louise Jolly, “Popular Religion in Late Saxon England”, (University of North Carolina Press 1996).
Jeremy Harte, ‘Names and Tales: On Folklore and Place Names’, in “Folklore” Volume Vol.130 part 4 (2019) pp 373-394.
Susan Kilby, “Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape”, University of Hertfordshire Press 2020).