History of Medieval England - Thursday 6th Period: Discussion 2: Dark Ages Britain

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All right. So we touched briefly on King Arthur of gloriously fake memory, Alfred the Great who actually lived, and Anglo-Saxon Britain. Now it's time to talk.

Your homework, which should sound familiar already is to select a topic from your readings and cut and paste give me at least 100 words. Ready, steady, go.

[[OOC: OCD threads are up, go ahead.]]

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Re: HOMEWORK: ME Disc 2

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The monk Gildas wrote the a book about "The Loss of Britain" in 540. It is not a good history. It and Bede's book are the first to tell the story of the coming of the Saxons to Britain. (If what they say is actually true. We don't know that.) The Saxons' success, which Gildas thought was God's vengeance against the Britons for their sins, was a pretty much the same thing Bede thought. But Gildas said that, in his own day, the Saxons were not fighting the Britons after all. But most of the Britons who were already there survived and so things worked out o.k.