The Beginnings of England with Marc Morris

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  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2024

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  • @ianwilson8759
    @ianwilson8759 2 роки тому +8

    Even today the Scots and Irish call the English Sassenachs and the Welsh have a similar word for the English. To open the discussion about whether Anglo-Saxon is a racist term is unbelievable.

  • @YoungChunds
    @YoungChunds 3 роки тому +30

    It is so insulting to hear university students and professors suggest the term Anglo Saxon is “problematic” or has no ethnic component. Moreover, it’s completely unnecessary for the podcast host to preface this benign discussion with “it’s not an excuse to abuse our colleagues of color”. Like, really??

    • @douglasbishop8627
      @douglasbishop8627 Рік тому +3

      Thanks for this comment. I have no idea why the host felt obligated to ramble on about sensitivity to race. Completely unnecessary to the interview.

    • @FiveLiver
      @FiveLiver Рік тому

      2:11 She seems to have trouble with the fact that Anglo-Saxons are white, which makes her an antiwhite.

    • @brian5001
      @brian5001 4 дні тому

      You look pretty oppressed

  • @stevenleslie8557
    @stevenleslie8557 3 роки тому +25

    I will continue to use the name Anglo-Saxon. I don't care whose feelings I might hurt. It's not a racist thing, but a fact of history.

    • @MC-eu8wm
      @MC-eu8wm 2 роки тому +5

      Also it doesn’t have racial relevance at all, because the vast majority of “Caucasian/ whites” are not Anglo Saxon.

    • @cosmicwakes6443
      @cosmicwakes6443 2 роки тому

      Steven
      Using the term Anglo Saxon is nonsensical seeing as it describes various groups of people, and not some well defined people.

    • @c.norbertneumann4986
      @c.norbertneumann4986 2 роки тому +7

      @@cosmicwakes6443 The Germanic settlers in England (exceot the Danes and Norwegians) called themselves Aengli, Seaxe or Angul-Seaxan. King Alfred the Great called himself "Anglorum Saxorum rex". King Aethelstan called himself in 924 "Angelsaxonum Denorumque gloriosissimus rex" and "rex Angulsexna and Norþhymbra imperator paganorum gubernator Brittanorumque propugnator". We should use the term "Anglo-Saxon" for those groups of people who called themselves "Angul-Seaxan" (or in Latin: Angli and Saxones) before 1066 AD.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 Рік тому +5

      It doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

  • @c.norbertneumann4986
    @c.norbertneumann4986 2 роки тому +13

    England was settled by the Angles and Saxons. They called themselves Anglo-Saxons from the 8th century onwards. It would be ahistorical to drop this term.

    • @MixerRenegade95
      @MixerRenegade95 2 роки тому

      Hwaet? but neider of dem were wed, anly had samely weys. Angelfolc and Sacsens were split early on and anly grew clus in the 800s and efen den would hat demselfes Aenglisc. Lay on the Denes for dat. On Afterdought lay not on the Gardenes, dey be beadumoody.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 Рік тому +3

      Of course it’s ahistorical. Destroying history is the whole point.

  • @WonHyo69
    @WonHyo69 3 роки тому +7

    What great content again. Marc Morris is one of my favourite author's and I thoroughly enjoyed this.

  • @zackmaxklein
    @zackmaxklein 2 роки тому +9

    I couldn’t proceed past the apology for using historical terms… AngloSaxon?

  • @reppinTV
    @reppinTV 2 роки тому +12

    Sorry had to turn off after the first few minutes. Ridiculous comments about Anglo-Saxon being about supremacy. Here for history not modern day political BS

  • @kevinbetsy-w9424
    @kevinbetsy-w9424 Рік тому +4

    Marc morris awesome, didn’t think much of ultra woke host obsessed with hurty words - “our colleagues of colour” what the fook has that got to do with the Anglo Saxons for the love of

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 2 роки тому

    This interview makes me want to trust you. Looking forward to reading, and thanks for the interview "Medievalists"!

  • @danielryan570
    @danielryan570 9 місяців тому +2

    This would get more views if you used the correct term of Anglo Saxons in the title, But you would risk offending woke academia or a "colleague of colour" heaven forbid

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 2 роки тому

    So interesting to think about WHY we don't know certain people are more important. Fascinating.

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 2 роки тому +1

    BEAUTIFULLY said, Dr. Morris, concerning the fact that we ALL would love to know about the queens and the children. And, of course, more women of the times. It was the way it was; we have almost no information.

    • @Gwailo54
      @Gwailo54 2 роки тому +1

      I’ve recently discovered the existence of Æthelflæd and how little her contemporaries covered her life. Those biographers being male, monks, and we know women, apart from BVM are essentially bad as they caused man to sin, so how can you have an effective ruler who is a woman despite her father being Alfred. Now if she had been a boy it would have been obvious she was a brilliant ruler inheriting all her father’s abilities. OK, a broad brush swipe at the monastic chroniclers, but how many nuns wrote about women?! It seems like Æthelflæd put Gloucester, my home town, back on the map after its Roman period. It’s fun reading about her and discovering what is fact and what is conjecture. Certainly Henry of Huntingdon had the historical hots for her.
      O Elfleda potens, ô terror virgo virorum,
      O Elfleda potens, nomine digna viri.
      Te quóque splendidior fecit natura puellam,
      Te probitas fecit nomen habere viri.
      Te mutare decet sed solum nomina sexus,
      Tu regina potens rexque trophea parans.
      Iam nec Cæsareos tantum mirere triumphos,
      Cæsare splendidior virgo virago, vale.

    • @josephcollins6033
      @josephcollins6033 2 роки тому

      @@Gwailo54 Oh THANK YOU!!!! I don't understand what you said about BVM ? being "essentially bad as they caused man to sin"?? You are very kind to take the time to write this to me. And the poem here! I will check some of the Latin. I don't know Henry of Huntington!! I will check him out!!! Thanks you, again! Joseph

  • @AnthonyEvelyn
    @AnthonyEvelyn Рік тому +5

    I want this stupid woke era to be passed into history. The term Anglo Saxon is settled description.

  • @happydays563
    @happydays563 2 роки тому +9

    Shame about the host. Was about to subscribe.

  • @Gorboduc
    @Gorboduc 2 роки тому +4

    Meaningful content starts at 6:45 lol.

  • @liliman-moli615
    @liliman-moli615 3 роки тому +2

    Hey great vids...
    Could you make one of Spain, I think the story of this country is AMAZING
    Can you imagine the three major religions lived together in middle ages, wow...
    Or how, at least, 6 kindoms meltdown in one... double wow...
    Well Thanks
    Ciao

  • @GrandeSalvatore96
    @GrandeSalvatore96 2 роки тому +2

    You lost me at it’s not ancient aliens 😢

  • @henner1231
    @henner1231 2 роки тому +11

    what a ridiculous introduction by this woke woman

  • @sirgonzoofrotherham236
    @sirgonzoofrotherham236 3 роки тому +22

    2mins and 56 secs in and were already talking about whiteness. This channel has been usurped by Intersectionalists and its pretty sad tbh.

    • @babubidadubi7514
      @babubidadubi7514 3 роки тому +1

      I disagree. I think they see the real potential that historical research has to offer. Intersectionalism is what makes science "klick". You can't put the world in neatly separated fields that don't intersect with one another. Why should your research be that way? And btw I think usurped is a very unfitting word here. This Channel has beent that way a long time and, I believe, very much by design.

    • @sirgonzoofrotherham236
      @sirgonzoofrotherham236 3 роки тому +2

      @@babubidadubi7514 if its been like this from the beginning then they duped us, cos the early stuff i watched wasnt like this.
      And spoken like a true intersectionalist. Lol

    • @ultraveridical
      @ultraveridical 3 роки тому +5

      ​@@babubidadubi7514 «Intersectionalism is what makes science "klick"» A post-modernist theory of overlapping grievances makes science "klick"? LUL. You must be high. History is not very scientific to begin with btw. It's a science only colloquially. The medievalists are scared shitless of being accused of white supremacy by their new political commissars because they are studying "white" (the most evil on earth) people's history. That's all the explanation one needs. Further down the line we will hear more ritualized self-flagellation and more unnecessary revisionist reinterpretations through the modern soc jus lens, because the people want to keep their jobs, sources of income, and don't feel or be perceived as evil.

    • @CameronMacadam
      @CameronMacadam 3 роки тому +4

      I like these talks, but I agree it’s annoying to have to ignore whole chunks talking about whiteness and CoLonIaLiSm and how we ‘ruined the world’......
      but I just have to ignore this side of things as the rest of the information is quite interesting

    • @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874
      @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 3 роки тому +4

      @@sirgonzoofrotherham236 If they want to talk about "diverse" topics, then why can't they talk about Africa in the Middle Ages?
      Ghana, Mali, Kanem-Bornu, Ethiopia, the Fatimid Caliphate, the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates, the Almoravids and Almohads were all powerful kingdoms in the Middle Ages that were quite comparable to the Feudal states of Europe.

  • @bobdylan1677
    @bobdylan1677 2 роки тому +7

    Silly woke nonsense

  • @DD-uq8qg
    @DD-uq8qg 3 роки тому +1

    Marc Morris is my least favorite authors. I bought some of his books, including audiobooks for my kindle oasis.
    I thorough regret the waste of money.
    Marc Morris did a lot of damage to history.
    I dislike him being cuddled and elevated into history’s sainthood in this interview with zero attempts to challenge his revisionism and make him face justice.

    • @chrislaw4189
      @chrislaw4189 3 роки тому +3

      Could you explain exactly what you dont like about his work?

    • @AshHanks-nl5bn
      @AshHanks-nl5bn 4 місяці тому

      Its been awhile I know however & with respect what do you mean?