Wielomski : The mediate Ages Forever Alive?

I am pleased to inform my Readers that my 34th book has just been published: Popes, emperors and kings. The medieval genesis of our politics. I would like to compose why I urge it not only to readers who are curious in mediocrity, but besides to those curious in contemporary geopolitics, global relations and the European Union.

A political view of the mediate Ages and medieval political thought years ago and I was totally unconsciously encouraged by 1 of my fellow professors after reading my professorial book Papal Theocracy 1073-1378, telling me that for him, as for a political scientist, it was a very interesting work, describing “how it all started, how our political planet arose”. And indeed, our political planet was created in the mediate Ages, even if we are not aware of this fact today. What I have dedicated to my fresh book is simply a dispute over European integration, which started just then. That is why in the introduction I wrote:

When you read this book, I would ask you to systematically pay attention to the analogies and continuity of various political concepts: 1) medieval universalism of the Church is inactive alive, persists, and exists as shortly as we see the zeal with which from Pius XII, through John Paul II, until Francis, successive popes support European integration, imagining that a united and Christian Europe will emergence again; 2) The medieval imperial thought is inactive alive, mutated into the thought of unifying Europe at the head of a common centre of power in the form of the European Commission, and is peculiarly symbolized by the German 1 who is the head of this committee: Ursula von der Leyen, authentically regarded as the emperor of this continental super-state; 3) the medieval thought of a national monarchy, converted in the 19th century to the rule of a national state, is inactive alive and up-to-date, and expressed by these Eurosceptic politicians and intellectuals who argue the thought of neo-cesar imperial Europe as a centralised European Union.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for over a 1000 years we have been debating, as Carl Schmitt said, about the "space organization" of our continent, turning between the thought of a national state (in the medieval period the alleged national monarch) and the thought of an empire based on a primacy or politics (the empire), or Christian universalism (the papacy). The ongoing demolition of the national state and the erosion of Christianity are causing us to now have the time of supremacy of the imperial idea, with the difference that alternatively of the Karolins, Ottons or Staufs we have the Kaisers in the form of Frau von der Leyen.

From my analysis emerges, sad for Catholics and patriots at the same time, a image of the Catholic Church, who never supported the thought of sovereign states, and if he did so only occasionally to weaken the conflicted empire with him. Why is the Church on the side of European integration and against national states? Because, as a whole, he does not think nationalally but universally and without any hesitation, he devotes the interests of states to the ecclesiastical interest. Among the clergy repents all the time the thought formulated in late Antiquity by Origen that the Roman Empire must conquer the full planet to make it easier to schristianize him. Although Rome today, or Brussels, and today's emperor, or European Commission, have long lost their Christian character and become the center of the anti-Christian revolution, this thought continues to repent among the clergy. Just perceive to what our bishops have said about the European Union. The well-known Cardinal Ryś (as Grzegorz Braun says, “Fish in sheep’s clothing”) Christian universalism from the mediate Ages completely laicised into cosmopolitanism of a multicultural and multireligious nature, confusing Christianitas with a free-molar cosmopolitan and global perfect l’Humanité. In fact, present we have a return to the imperial ideal, erstwhile the Church was completely subordinate to the imperialist (so-called "Cessarism"). Reichskirche), becoming a propaganda tube of imperial doctrine. This one, contrary to appearances, has not changed that much since the mediate Ages. Cajzerin von der Leyen, promoting deeper European integration, inactive uses the favourite argument of imperial court ideologists, namely Marseille of Padua and Dante Alighieri: the empire will unite the world, and thus there will be peace and there will never be war in Europe again. From the imperial doctrine position Putin and Russia are the fresh Saladin and Arabs threatening Europe and its regulation of law, which replaced Christianity. Everything in past has been.

If you want to research the genesis of the contemporary discussion on European integration, delight read my book. I invitation all those curious in the mediate Ages and his political thought to read it.

Adam Wielomski

Popes, emperors and kings. The Medieval genesis of Our Politics, Foundation investigation Institute Pro Vita Bona, Warsaw 2025, pages 186.