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Anglo-Saxonism is a cultural belief system developed by British and American intellectuals, politicians, and academics in the 19th century. Racialized Anglo-Saxonism contained both competing and intersecting doctrines, such as Victorian era Old Northernism and the Teutonic germ theory which it relied upon in appropriating Germanic (particularly Norse) cultural and racial origins for the Anglo ...
The ethnonym appears in Latin as Teutonēs or Teutoni in the plural, and less commonly as Teuton or Teutonus in the singular. [2] It transparently originates from the Proto-Indo-European stem *tewtéh₂-, meaning "people, tribe, crowd," with the addition of the suffix -ones, which is frequently found in both Celtic (e.g., Lingones, Senones) and Germanic (e.g., Ingvaeones, Semnones) tribal ...
Although Christianity dominates the religious history of the Anglo-Saxons, life in the 5th and 6th centuries was dominated by pagan religious beliefs with a Scandinavian-Germanic heritage. Pagan Anglo-Saxons worshipped at a variety of different sites across their landscape, some of which were apparently specially built temples and others that ...
The migration of the Anglo-Saxons formed the basis of a long-lasting thesis that aspects of common law, personal liberty and representative government were unique to England and other Germanic-speaking countries and that these had originated from the Germanic nature of the migrants. Anglo-Saxon settlers were often seen — particularly by the ...
The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples led to the development of a new Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and shared Germanic language, Old English (whose closest relative was Old Frisian, spoken on the other side of the North Sea). The first Germanic-speakers to settle Britain permanently are likely to have been soldiers ...
Compared to Deniker, Ripley advocated a simplified racial view and proposed the concept of a single Teutonic race linked to geographic areas where Nordic-like characteristics predominate, and contrasted these areas to the boundaries of two other types, Alpine and Mediterranean, thus reducing the "caucasoid branch of humanity" to three distinct ...
An emphasis on the Germanic roots of the English was a theme of early seventeenth century historians Richard Verstegan and William Camden, who traced English institutions to a Germanic love of liberty that the Anglo-Saxon settlers had imported into Britain. Racial categories were far vaguer than they would be in later centuries but these ...
Anglo-Saxon migrationism is the school of thought that holds that the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain was driven by a large scale migration of Germanic speakers from present day north Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands into Roman Britain with the consequent extermination, expulsion and enslavement of the Romano-Britons.