Re: Handmaiden to History

On Jan 27, 8:48 am, "Digger" <p.du...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Digger" <p.du...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I'm afraid I can't give you detailed reference at this precise moment but
I will try to find it for you and post it here in the next day or two.

Here's the reference...
Roberta Gilchrist 1997 Ambivalent Bodies : Gender and Medieval Archaeology
in J. Moore and E. Scott (Eds) Invisible People and Processes: Wriiting
Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology. London : Leicester
University

Another thing to consider might be medieval writings like those of Gildas
and Bede. I think it was Gildas who wrote about the ferocious vikings
raiding up and down the east coast of England. However, the archaeological
record doesn't really support what was written. There are some examples of
monasteries being raided but little to suggest widespread pillaging of the
land and we certainly don't find evidence of many (if any) villages being
razed. It couldn't possibly be a case of the pagan raiders deliberately
being given a worse press than was warranted could it?

Standard word of mouth problem. There is a game called "Telephone"
where one person starts with a sentence, each person in turn repeats
it to the next in a whisper and the final person announces the end
consensus. The story never survives the retelling in anything like the
original.
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    ... Roberta Gilchrist 1997 Ambivalent Bodies: Gender and Medieval Archaeology in J. Moore and E. Scott Invisible People and Processes: Wriiting Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology. ... I think it was Gildas who wrote about the ferocious vikings raiding up and down the east coast of England. ... The archaeological evidence for the 5th and early 6th centuries is pretty vague, so it’s hard to say that it doesn’t agree with the documentary evidence: much of what Gildas says can’t be evaluated archaeologically anyway. ...
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