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Rex Germanorum, Populos Sclavorum: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Early History of the Serbs/Slavs of Sarmatia, Germania, and Illyria

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Rex Germanorum Populos Sclavorum: An Inquiry Into The Origin & Early History of The Serbs/Slavs Of Sarmatia, Germania, & Illyria is an impressive, 602 page compendium of original historical research drawn from a multi-disciplinary body of source materials including archaeology, linguistics, treatise and other antiquarian documents providing invaluable and scholarly insights into the origin and settlement of the Serbs and Slavs in early European histories of medieval Polonia, Germania, Bohemia, and Illyria. Enhanced with 23 maps, 81 illustrations, 43 tombstone inscriptions from Medieval Bosnia, an Indo-Iranian/Serb-Slav glossary, a translated and summarized 12th century chronicle, and more, Rex Germanorum Populos Sclavorum is an original, seminal, ground breaking and highly recommended contribution to academic Medieval Studies and European History reference collections and reading lists.

I puchased this book a while ago & have only read it now. I feel Daniel Buncic's assesment isn't quite right. It does try to tie in linguistics & how the same word can change slightly over time - I don't see how this in itself is silly. Now perhaps all the suppositions are not true. Now there must be ties between the ancient slavic peoples & it isn't coincidence that the word serbs was split between 2 locations. But since then I'm sure the actual racial composition of the 2 peoples has changed but that old ancient tie remains. Perhaps the tie with iranian & indian are vague but there are similarities - who can say for sure - perhaps proto-europeans lived in central asia - note the fair-skinned mummies found in western china. Now the author doesn't state that Serbs so influenced history - you must remember all european peoples influenced history somewhat. This text also shows how related all european are. Give the book a chance - you will learn something from it.

"Rex Germanorum populos Sclavorum" is a pseudo-scientific work that distorts reality, written in an attempt to prove that world history has been influenced primarily by Serbs (as the Vandals, the Suebi, the Indo-Arians, the founders of the Russian state, Louis the German, Martin Luther and many others were in fact Serbs, according to the author).

The author operates with a dozen foreign languages (without ever giving a translation), but he himself obviously understands not a single one of them, not even Serbian. Even the Latin quotation in the title of the book is wrong, taken out of the context of a sentence Vukcevich has obviously misunderstood. His completely unordered and partly contradictory pseudo-linguistic arguments are either void of any scientific method (like his unmotivated letter changes, e.g. in Suebi - Svevi - Svovi - Svoven - Sloven), or they show things nobody would ever have doubted on dozens of pages (like the fact that the Lusatian Sorbs in Germany and the Serbs happen to use the same ethnonym).
(For further details see one of the numerous reviews published so far in scientific - historical and linguistic - journals.)

By the way: The publisher "University Center Press" does not have anything to do with any university. So far it has published only this one book...

One must not burn books. But if there is one book in the world that deserves being burned, it is this one.