Barbarian Europe

Modzelewski presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a comparative study of the contribution of the barbarians of Europe to Western civilization. The author has organized the main body of his text in seven chapters devoted to narratives on the barbarians, the laws of the barbarians, individuals in a realm of kinship community, social differences in the tribal system, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Karol Modzelewski is a retired faculty member of the University of Warsaw, Poland. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Karol Modzelewski is a medieval historian and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Italian L’Accademia dei Lincei. Now retired, he was a professor at the University of Warsaw. One of Poland’s most prominent dissidents of the communist era, he is credited with giving the trade union ?Solidarity? its name. He served in the Senate after Poland’s first free elections in 1989 before returning to academia.