Diferencia entre revisiones de «Walter Pohl»

=== Crítica ===

La obra de Pohls no ha estado exenta de oposición. [[Wolf Liebeschuetz]] calificó su trabajo de "extraordinariamente unilateral" y de una forma de "dogmatismo" ideológico que evidenciaba "una mente cerrada", lo que creía que era una reacción al racismo nazi.<ref>{{harvnb|Liebeschuetz|2015|p=xxi}}. "Walter Pohl, had a completely closed mind to any view that admitted that these northern gentes had genuine histories and traditions of their own. Not content to demolish the view that these tribes were essentially racial organizations, they relied on sociological theory that ethnicity is nothing more than a negotiated system of social classification... to deny these peoples any institutions and values of their own, and so to reduce their contribution to medieval Europe to nothing at all. Such dogmatism is easily explained as a reaction to Nazi racism but it is nevertheless extraordinarily one-sided..."</ref> Liebeschuetz está de acuerdo con la opinión de Pohl de que los primeros [[pueblos germánicos]] no formaban una unidad racial, pero se opuso a la idea, cada vez más popular entre los estudiosos modernos como Pohl, de que los primeros pueblos germánicos no tenían un único conjunto compartido de instituciones o valores propios, porque esta idea entra en conflicto con la creencia de Liebeschuetz de que estos pueblos deben ser considerados una entidad única que hizo una importante contribución al surgimiento de la [[Europa medieval]].{{sfn|Liebeschuetz|2015|p=xxi}}{{sfn|Fruscione|2010}} [[John F. Drinkwater]] ha sugerido que las teorías de Pohl sobre los pueblos germánicos están motivadas por el deseo de acelerar la [[integración europea]].<ref name="Drinkwater4">{{harvnb|Drinkwater|2002|pp=348–350}}. "Pohl's ''Germani'' are not all ''Germani'', but those encountered by the Romans on the Rhine and the upper Danube from about the first century B.C. to the sixth century A.D. He does not consider, for example, the Goths or the Franks of the Merovingian kingdoms... [Pohl] is dismissive of language and culture as determinants... of ethnic identity. He stresses fluidity, flexibility and ambiguity... As I read P.'s book, I was frequently struck by the thought that this is the conviction of those urging faster and closer European integration... Perhaps attempting to convince people that the societies they belong to are no more than ephemeral historical artefacts may in the end prove to be just as misguided as praising them for their racial, social and institutional purity."</ref>

 

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