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Guy Halsall Quotes

born 1964 England

Guy Halsall (born 1964) is an English historian who specializes in Early Medieval Europe.

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There can be no question of a general overriding ‘Germanic’ or ‘Celtic’ identity amongst the different barbarian groups.

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376–568 (2007)

The problems of Germanism have long been recognised.

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376–568 (2007)

This is no more acceptable than Germanism.

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376–568 (2007)

This may be claimed to be a reductio ad absurdam of traditional assumptions. It is, but only because these assumptions are fundamentally absurd.

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376–568 (2007)

Whatever their authors’ politics (though these can be guessed at from their writings and publishing choices) there can be no doubt that these works have—in the most generous interpretation—been written sufficiently carelessly as to provide succour to far-right extremists.

Two Worlds Become One (2014)

I twitch every time anyone mentions ‘Germanic’ culture.

In the reinterpretation of ‘Germanic’ archaeology I have benefited from discussions with, and the encouragement of fellow-subversives... vive la re´volution!

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376–568 (2007)

[T]he writing of history is inescapably political, my aim is partly to provide a basis for a more politically and ethically responsible intervention by historians in modern political debate about migration.

Two Worlds Become One (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Guy Halsall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.