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Our next Substack Live will be on Tuesday 1st April 2025, a Q&A on gender in early medieval England.
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Questions/topics we covered:
Which historian would you choose to join you on an upcoming Substack Live?
Why is the term ‘Dark Ages’ being clarified as inaccurate? What’s a better term, or is ‘Dark Ages’ fitting?
Can you speak to early medieval pre-Christian religion? Maybe any pre-Anglo-Saxon religious influences.
The concept of ‘those who work/fight/pray’ deriving from Alfred the Great, and the way that historical constructs like this handcuff studies of the past
Do you think medieval literature offers any insights into how people viewed nature, and can we learn anything from it for today’s world?
The cultural mixing of pre-Christian and Christian belief in material culture
The role of women and their marriages in the spread of Christianity in England
Additional resources we mentioned:
EH Carr, What Is History?
Suzannah Lipscomb and Helen Carr, What Is History, Now?
My serialised historical fiction novels:
Ronald Hutton, Pagan Britain
Sarah Semple, Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England
Winters in the World, Eleanor Parker - discusses the nature question
CORRECTION! EH Carr is Helen Carr’s great-grandfather, not grandfather as I mistakenly said in the video.
