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The culture of Anglei dates back to the settlement of its modern territory by [[Gothic people|Gothic]] Angle tribes during the 7th century and emerged as the traditions of the Angles integrated with those of the settled [[Latinic people|Levantines]] living in the area. Accordingly, Ænglish culture is a distinctly [[Occidental]] culture and is highly integrated in the Occidental cultural world. Ænglish culture has seen two distinctive periods largely demarcated by the [[Nordmontaine War]], with the pre-war "High Ænglish" culture being defined, as is the case with high culture elsewhere, by the fascination of nobles, the artistic patronage of major landowners, and with the court in Holchester largely setting the tone and course of Ænglish culture. The High Ænglish period produced many of the best works of Ænglish arts, architecture, and literature, and includes many of the great works post-reunification Ænglish point to as their traditional cultural patrimony. The post-war "Low Ænglish" culture was defined, meanwhile, by the cultural mores, expectations, and practices of a people living largely under a new foreign nobility akin to occupation. This entailed not only the creation of certain cultural attitudes, such as the well-known sardonic nature of Ænglish language and comedy, but also the adoption of some foreign customs. Scholarship on the High and Low Ænglish cultures changed significantly over the course of the 20th century. The earliest Ænglish nationalist scholars of the late 19th century regarded Low Ænglish as a kind of imitation or "barbarian necessity" which clouded the true achievements of High Ænglish and urged their countrymen to look to the past. However, modern scholars now accept that most of the daily cultural markers that delineate Ænglish culture originate during the post-war period, with the pre-war Ænglish culture persisting primarily through memory rather than continuity.