 | Iskry
2004
© Karol Modzelewski
160x240
515 pages
paperback
ISBN 83-207-1758-2
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Karol ModzelewskiA Europe of Barbarians
Karol Modzelewski’s work, A Europe of Barbarians, tells of the legal-societal system of the Germanic and Slavonic tribes of the Middle Ages. This extensive study by one of Poland’s leading medievalists deals with, above all, the Longobards, the Halicki Law, and the Slavs of the North and the East. Modzelewski writes as well about the idea of “barbarians” itself, rejecting the stereotype of the unity of the barbarian world.
He stresses, however, that “we can understand nothing about the traditional cultures of barbarian Europe if we close our eyes to the collectivist nature of their moral norms.” Modzelewski devotes a great deal of space to analyses of the legal-societal position of women within these cultures. In the epilog, he also takes up the debate which has flared up in Europe over the preamble to the EU’s constitutional treatise. Much has been well written about the role of Christianity in building a new European order, he writes, but one should also regard the baptism of barbaric peoples as an act of devastation.
Adam Szostkiewicz
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