C. S. Lewis on barbarism
Apr. 28th, 2023 06:52 am...Theodoric the Ostrogoth, the first barbarian king in Italy and an Arian by religion, though no persecutor. As always, the word 'barbarian' might mislead. Though Theodoric was illiterate, he had passed his youth in high Byzantine society. He was in some ways a better ruler than many Roman emperors had been. His reign in Italy was not a sheer monstrosity as, say, the rule of Chaka or Dingaan in nineteenth-century England would have been. It was more as if a (popish) highland chieftain (who had acquired a little polish and a taste for claret in the French service) had reigned over the partly Protestant and partly skeptical England of Johnson and Lord Chesterfield.
The Discarded Image
The Discarded Image
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Date: 2023-04-28 11:51 am (UTC)Явление карго культа - из той же серии. Льюис отрицает внешнее варварство, но современники "первого варвара-короля" знали лучше.
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