253 – Anglo Saxon Market Towns in the Viking Age

Cultures change all the time - yours is changing right now, in ways you may or may not realize. It’s a completely normal, everyday fact that has been with humanity since we began. Probably before we began. And yet, telling the story of how a culture changed is extremely challenging. Cultural shifts are messy, they’re chaotic, and they come with a boat load of caveats and exceptions. The entire theme of the BHP, right from the start, has been that people can’t be pigeon holed. They’re complicated, unique, and they never perfectly fit into a category.
And yet, even as we acknowledge that, we must recognize trends and norms and traditions - if for no other reason than they do actually change over time.