单词 | adventus saxonum |
释义 | adventus Saxonumn. British History. The ‘coming of the Saxons’; the arrival of the first Germanic settlers or invaders in post-Roman Britain, traditionally dated to c449; the earliest period of Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain.Following the early accounts by Gildas, Bede, and Nennius, the adventus saxonum was traditionally regarded as a single, dramatic event, but philological and archaeological discoveries in the 20th cent. have led to widespread acceptance of a model of more gradual Germanic settlement. ΚΠ 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 607 Henry of Huntingdon..inaccurately talks of an ‘adventus Saxonum in Angliam’, while the accurate Bæda..talks of the ‘adventus Anglorum in Brittaniam’.] 1927 E. K. Chambers Arthur of Brit. vi. 177 Some scholars..suppose that 428 rather than 449 must be the right date for the Adventus Saxonum. 1956 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 12 176 We have projected the name [‘Middle Angle’] backwards into the fifth and sixth centuries, the era of the ‘adventus Saxonum’. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings i. i. 31 The aduentus Saxonum..is among the most famous ventures of the Age of Migrations, but..it is obscure in much of its detail. 1988 H. E. Hallam Agrarian Hist. Engl. & Wales II. i. 1 Any wholesale replacement of Britons by English during the Adventus Saxonum now seems to be an outmoded racialist myth. 2013 T. M. Charles-Edwards Wales & Britons, 350–1064 i. i. 45 Only the third archaeological phase corresponds to the traditional concept of the adventus Saxonum. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1927 |
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