In 2002, On Barbarian Identity, a work by scholars associated with the Toronto School and edited by Andrew Gillett, was published. In this work, the Vienna School was accused of being composed of "crypto-nationalists", and of enforcing "a new historical orthodoxy". These critics deny that the Germanic tribes, neither as a whole nor as individual groups, had core traditions. They consider Old Norse literature, Roman literature and other primary sources unreliable for the study of Germanic history and culture. Previous scholarship on Germanic tribes is to them politically unreliable. In their view, Germanic culture was entirely derived from the Roman Empire. Wolf Liebeschuetz has criticized these theories as "very strongly ideological, deriving from the rejection of nationalism and the acceptance of multiculturalism", and "flawed because they depend on a dogmatic and selective use of the evidence". Liebeschuetz contends that the proponents of these theories are motivated by a political agenda, which revolves around pan-European identity.
In 2002, On Barbarian Identity, a work by scholars associated with the Toronto School and edited by Andrew Gillett, was published. In this work, the Vienna School was accused of being composed of "crypto-nationalists", and of enforcing "a new historical orthodoxy". These critics deny that the various Germanic-speaking peoples had a single set of core traditions. They consider Old Norse literature, Roman literature and other primary sources unreliable for the study of Germanic history and culture. Previous scholarship on Germanic tribes is considered by them to be politically unreliable. In their view, Germanic culture was a creation of the Roman Empire. Wolf Liebeschuetz has criticized these theories as "very strongly ideological, deriving from the rejection of nationalism and the acceptance of multiculturalism", and "flawed because they depend on a dogmatic and selective use of the evidence". Liebeschuetz contends that the proponents of these theories are motivated by a political agenda, which revolves around pan-European identity.
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