The Anglo Saxons didn't disappear in 1066. They remained the bulk of the English population. The Norman Conquest only really involved a super-stratum of noblemen and administrators. To this day there is the concept of the "Norman Yoke" in England.
I am viewer number 459 - a 54-year-old history nerd from Germany. I presume most of the 458 viewers before me fall into similar categories. Sadly, young Americans can't be bothered with such information. I found it very enjoyable, though.
Howdy from Texas--Germany is the fountain from which European greatness flows! Germanics carried the flame handed off from Romans and Greeks, Europeans would be better off without the scourge of either 3 middle eastern religions.
I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce a video about the Anglo-Saxons by talking about how they “fell” in 1066 and how the term is problematic. It is a scientific fact that the Anglo-Saxons still exist, and we also exist in North America.
Great interview! The first US Naval ship was named ALFRED! Ha! Backs up the claim of Jeffersons admiration and nod to Anglo-Saxon based National identity....
Saxons presumedly immigrated to Britain already before 440 AD. The eastern Channel coast (where today is Kent and Sussex) was already in the late fourth century, still under Roman rule, called "litus Saxonicus" meaning in translation "the Saxon shore".
Most probably those where Frisians from the dutch and german coast. The flodding was so bad between 325/450 that they moved to England (due to their trading with england) and to Belgium/North France. Romans called the Northsea the Frisian sea. Traders throughout the Whole Northsea-area.
51:42 Morris talks about the eventual interchangeability of Angels Saxons Jutes etc...Thats because they were so close to begin w...Europeans and Africans will always have that distinction, thats what the uniforms are for, as much as the elites want Mankind to evolve into a cappuccino EurasianNeg like Kalergi predicts, there are those from all 3 continents that want those distinctions to remain and rightly so....
43:15 This story about Wilfred & South Sussex conversions and the drowning monks was the most interesting part of the whole story for me...Charlemagne used forced conversions on the North Germanic tribes, Sachsens is mentioned in that story if I remember correctly.
March Morris is a consummate example - in my opinion, of everything that is still working, still commendable, in academia (and that is dwindling, ‘woke’ being the voracious behemoth that it is) - my own area (1300-1500) left me completely ignorant of this period, I wrongly assumed the Anglo-Saxons were about as meaningful as dust under a rock. Morris - and scholars like Eleanor Parker - have changed that bias I had - but the awakening began with Morris. He is also very funny, wry and charming. Lovely speaker, I have tried to find every interview he’s done - I may quibble here and there with him once he veers onto my patch (after 1300) but mostly I find him darn close to perfection.
Howdy from Texas....Any particular geographical area you focus on 1300+?? Ive always found the 14th century to be a scary time, I watched “mini ice age Big Chill” documentary and that helped me understand some of the upheavals especially on the British Isles with the famines and obviously the plagues after 1348...If you are interested I have found Professor Robert Bartlett to be a great story teller about the medieval era 1k-1500AD...I am going to see if i can find Eleanor Parker as you mentioned, always looking for new historia..
@@THINKincessantly well that is alot of request! I sort of backed into English history via the French! Grew up fascinated by Joan of Arc (La Pucelle de Domremy), burned by the 'Goddems' haha, she bristled at blasphemy so for her to use the term always intrigued me - well, the English were called 'goddems' by the French long before Joan's day (1420's) as it was an oath so often heard coming from English soldiers, about everything! Unfortunately, or perhaps naturally, I despised everything in my childish way, growing up, about these wretched English, the Lancastrians who would take a prisoner they so feared, rig her trial, which she clearly made them look like fools, and burn her anyway! The problem is I knew nothing about the era she lived in from the English side, or even how the French Wars came about - and strangely enough how two 'countries' united by language, familiar branches of the 'nobility' and reigning houses, by culture and manner simply hated each other! My area (mostly War of the Roses) seemed tame by comparison to the mess of the French Wars (three phases, Edward III initial phase then a respite - which was shall we say ignored by the free companies - the second Edwardian phase mostly led by his son Edward - this is the Poictiers thru Navarre but the young king Richard II did not pursue the French wars so a big lull until the 3rd phase, usually called Henrican, for the Azincourt campaign 1415 and that phase ended in total and complete defeat, finally, in 1453 but it had been a long time coming, with continual losses in France, the Henrican strategy of occupying and then resettling Normandy, and other French provinces with English soldiers, garrisons, with his favored knights as a magnet to merchants, tradesmen, gentry meant that the military losses were coupled with quite literally social upheaval again among these 'established' civil arrangements - Henry V left a civil war in the wings - I could go on and on - Joan was the least of the Lancastrians problems, but those errors were of their own making). I really don't need anymore research hobbies but here I am, fascinated by the really early histories now, the Anglo-Saxons, who seem to have been abandoned by academia by such a long time - in part I think because of Henry VIII's wretched destruction of the abbeys, cathedrals, etc, apparently it never occurred to the lunatic that inside those buildings were manuscripts, documents, letters, chronicles, etc that were not only priceless but literally one of a kind, and within a generation as the buildings were ransacked untold manuscripts were lost, destroyed, found themselves ripped apart - the very early 'antiquarians' like Camden and Cotton began what we could call the long hunt for these manuscripts. The only known surviving copy of Beowulf was in Robert Cotton's hands, imagine that, as well as the Lindisfarne Gospels! That rabbit hole, how he collected and his circle of fellow antiquarians is for another day, I have too much on my plate right now! But Cotton, and others, are probably the reason we are saturated with Tudors (a dynasty that lasted a mere 68 years in the male!) - all their documents, letters, papers, assiduously preserved in libraries like Cotton's, and a king like Henry VII kept records of the minutiae of everything he spent on informers, spies, his gambling habit, really extraordinary! Nothing like it exists before them, you would be hard pressed to find anything like that for the Yorkists, whose 25+ years of documentation -official and unofficial - is negligible. The Lancastrians have far better surviving documentation and there are several good scholars for that period if you are interested. Aside from Morris and now Parker, I have been listening to some YT material - one is called Anglo Saxon England Podcast, he must have 35+ episodes by now - I believe his name is Tome Kerns (sp?) and he is quite indepth! as in take notes - each episode is around a specific topic or person and while I thought I was keeping my head above water with the chronology and details his work is so much more intense - his delivery is quiet, all vocal, but bite size chunks of information, starting with these end of Roman Britain. I 've become addicted to his podcasts. Pete Kelly of History Time has another fine series on early English, Anglo-Saxon as well, but Pete does use visuals, maps, locations, I found Pete during the lockdown. His brother, David Kelly, has his own YT site and does "Voices of the Past" which includes his reading from some of these periods, such as from Bede. David Kelly has a marvelous voice, somewhat different from Pete's, both are excellent. And lastly do not forget YT has a wealth of material on the Sutton Hoo excavations, as well as other sites, you could spend all week finding new leads, and the archaeological services in Sussex, Surrey, Kent, etc all have their own channels or access to such services (Pete did alot of updates for them during lockdown) - you will be overwhelmed and while sometimes 'dry' (they are academics after all) the imagery of the finds, digs and results are fascinating. Recently I found YT coverage about the Repton derbyshire burial site of Vikings - they think they found the burial site of remains from the great Heathen Army, some of them, definitely check that out, great imagery, discussion by the archaeologists, really fills out visually what the Anglo-Saxons were up against with these Danes - ok, that should get you moving along! Have fun!
🏴having MM on to discuss and explore this period is a real treat, its one of my favorite areas of RUclips 🏰 68 minutes of very enjoyable content.🤗
The Anglo Saxons didn't disappear in 1066. They remained the bulk of the English population. The Norman Conquest only really involved a super-stratum of noblemen and administrators. To this day there is the concept of the "Norman Yoke" in England.
I am viewer number 459 - a 54-year-old history nerd from Germany.
I presume most of the 458 viewers before me fall into similar categories.
Sadly, young Americans can't be bothered with such information.
I found it very enjoyable, though.
Howdy from Texas--Germany is the fountain from which European greatness flows! Germanics carried the flame handed off from Romans and Greeks, Europeans would be better off without the scourge of either 3 middle eastern religions.
I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce a video about the Anglo-Saxons by talking about how they “fell” in 1066 and how the term is problematic. It is a scientific fact that the Anglo-Saxons still exist, and we also exist in North America.
Great interview! The first US Naval ship was named ALFRED! Ha! Backs up the claim of Jeffersons admiration and nod to Anglo-Saxon based National identity....
Saxons presumedly immigrated to Britain already before 440 AD. The eastern Channel coast (where today is Kent and Sussex) was already in the late fourth century, still under Roman rule, called "litus Saxonicus" meaning in translation "the Saxon shore".
Most probably those where Frisians from the dutch and german coast. The flodding was so bad between 325/450 that they moved to England (due to their trading with england) and to Belgium/North France.
Romans called the Northsea the Frisian sea. Traders throughout the Whole Northsea-area.
51:42 Morris talks about the eventual interchangeability of Angels Saxons Jutes etc...Thats because they were so close to begin w...Europeans and Africans will always have that distinction, thats what the uniforms are for, as much as the elites want Mankind to evolve into a cappuccino EurasianNeg like Kalergi predicts, there are those from all 3 continents that want those distinctions to remain and rightly so....
43:15 This story about Wilfred & South Sussex conversions and the drowning monks was the most interesting part of the whole story for me...Charlemagne used forced conversions on the North Germanic tribes, Sachsens is mentioned in that story if I remember correctly.
March Morris is a consummate example - in my opinion, of everything that is still working, still commendable, in academia (and that is dwindling, ‘woke’ being the voracious behemoth that it is) - my own area (1300-1500) left me completely ignorant of this period, I wrongly assumed the Anglo-Saxons were about as meaningful as dust under a rock. Morris - and scholars like Eleanor Parker - have changed that bias I had - but the awakening began with Morris. He is also very funny, wry and charming. Lovely speaker, I have tried to find every interview he’s done - I may quibble here and there with him once he veers onto my patch (after 1300) but mostly I find him darn close to perfection.
Howdy from Texas....Any particular geographical area you focus on 1300+?? Ive always found the 14th century to be a scary time, I watched “mini ice age Big Chill” documentary and that helped me understand some of the upheavals especially on the British Isles with the famines and obviously the plagues after 1348...If you are interested I have found Professor Robert Bartlett to be a great story teller about the medieval era 1k-1500AD...I am going to see if i can find Eleanor Parker as you mentioned, always looking for new historia..
@@THINKincessantly well that is alot of request! I sort of backed into English history via the French! Grew up fascinated by Joan of Arc (La Pucelle de Domremy), burned by the 'Goddems' haha, she bristled at blasphemy so for her to use the term always intrigued me - well, the English were called 'goddems' by the French long before Joan's day (1420's) as it was an oath so often heard coming from English soldiers, about everything! Unfortunately, or perhaps naturally, I despised everything in my childish way, growing up, about these wretched English, the Lancastrians who would take a prisoner they so feared, rig her trial, which she clearly made them look like fools, and burn her anyway! The problem is I knew nothing about the era she lived in from the English side, or even how the French Wars came about - and strangely enough how two 'countries' united by language, familiar branches of the 'nobility' and reigning houses, by culture and manner simply hated each other! My area (mostly War of the Roses) seemed tame by comparison to the mess of the French Wars (three phases, Edward III initial phase then a respite - which was shall we say ignored by the free companies - the second Edwardian phase mostly led by his son Edward - this is the Poictiers thru Navarre but the young king Richard II did not pursue the French wars so a big lull until the 3rd phase, usually called Henrican, for the Azincourt campaign 1415 and that phase ended in total and complete defeat, finally, in 1453 but it had been a long time coming, with continual losses in France, the Henrican strategy of occupying and then resettling Normandy, and other French provinces with English soldiers, garrisons, with his favored knights as a magnet to merchants, tradesmen, gentry meant that the military losses were coupled with quite literally social upheaval again among these 'established' civil arrangements - Henry V left a civil war in the wings - I could go on and on - Joan was the least of the Lancastrians problems, but those errors were of their own making).
I really don't need anymore research hobbies but here I am, fascinated by the really early histories now, the Anglo-Saxons, who seem to have been abandoned by academia by such a long time - in part I think because of Henry VIII's wretched destruction of the abbeys, cathedrals, etc, apparently it never occurred to the lunatic that inside those buildings were manuscripts, documents, letters, chronicles, etc that were not only priceless but literally one of a kind, and within a generation as the buildings were ransacked untold manuscripts were lost, destroyed, found themselves ripped apart - the very early 'antiquarians' like Camden and Cotton began what we could call the long hunt for these manuscripts. The only known surviving copy of Beowulf was in Robert Cotton's hands, imagine that, as well as the Lindisfarne Gospels! That rabbit hole, how he collected and his circle of fellow antiquarians is for another day, I have too much on my plate right now! But Cotton, and others, are probably the reason we are saturated with Tudors (a dynasty that lasted a mere 68 years in the male!) - all their documents, letters, papers, assiduously preserved in libraries like Cotton's, and a king like Henry VII kept records of the minutiae of everything he spent on informers, spies, his gambling habit, really extraordinary! Nothing like it exists before them, you would be hard pressed to find anything like that for the Yorkists, whose 25+ years of documentation -official and unofficial - is negligible. The Lancastrians have far better surviving documentation and there are several good scholars for that period if you are interested.
Aside from Morris and now Parker, I have been listening to some YT material - one is called Anglo Saxon England Podcast, he must have 35+ episodes by now - I believe his name is Tome Kerns (sp?) and he is quite indepth! as in take notes - each episode is around a specific topic or person and while I thought I was keeping my head above water with the chronology and details his work is so much more intense - his delivery is quiet, all vocal, but bite size chunks of information, starting with these end of Roman Britain. I 've become addicted to his podcasts. Pete Kelly of History Time has another fine series on early English, Anglo-Saxon as well, but Pete does use visuals, maps, locations, I found Pete during the lockdown. His brother, David Kelly, has his own YT site and does "Voices of the Past" which includes his reading from some of these periods, such as from Bede. David Kelly has a marvelous voice, somewhat different from Pete's, both are excellent. And lastly do not forget YT has a wealth of material on the Sutton Hoo excavations, as well as other sites, you could spend all week finding new leads, and the archaeological services in Sussex, Surrey, Kent, etc all have their own channels or access to such services (Pete did alot of updates for them during lockdown) - you will be overwhelmed and while sometimes 'dry' (they are academics after all) the imagery of the finds, digs and results are fascinating. Recently I found YT coverage about the Repton derbyshire burial site of Vikings - they think they found the burial site of remains from the great Heathen Army, some of them, definitely check that out, great imagery, discussion by the archaeologists, really fills out visually what the Anglo-Saxons were up against with these Danes - ok, that should get you moving along! Have fun!
Im curious if small channel producers have to pay for these premium level interviews of and with authors historians etc?
🏴having MM on to discuss and explore this period is a real treat, its one of my favorite areas of RUclips 🏰 68 minutes of very enjoyable content.🤗
This guy was great ! Thanks, Mitch !