Was ist der Kanun? Welche Rolle spielt er bis heute in Albanien?

Robert Menasse erläutert, wie der traditionsreiche Kanun bis heute das Rechtssystem in Albanien prägt, um »eine möglichst breite Schnittmenge von Recht und Gerechtigkeit zu erlangen.« In seinem EU-Roman »Die Erweiterung« verwebt der vielfach ausgezeichnete Autor Weltgeschehen und individuelle Schicksale kunstvoll und facettenreich miteinander.

Robert Menasse über seinen EU-Roman »Die Erweiterung« (Langversion)

»Robert Menasse, welche Frage zum Thema Europa beschäftigt Sie in Ihrem Roman ›Die Erweiterung‹?«

Wie stellen Sie sich die Zukunft Europas vor, Robert Menasse?

»In Albanien gibt es nicht eine Minute Nostalgie nach den alten Zeiten.«

»Meine Figur Ylbere ist ein Beispiel für die Genderdebatte.«

#Buchtipp #Europa #Kanun

[yvonne]

What did Albanians 🇦🇱 have before the Ottoman invasion?

1. Albanians had a University in 1380 in Durrës. To give you an idea: Germany opened its first university, 6 years after Durrës (Heidelberg University).

2. Albanians had 6 fully developed cities as much as Florence, Venice, Marseille or Paris. (Durrës, Shkodra, Drishti, Lezha, Berat and Preveza).

3. Albanians had the aristocratic class with 8 noble families (Balshaj, Topiaj, Muzakaj, Kastrioti, Arianiti, Zebenishta, Spataj and Dukagjini) connected by marriage even with the Habsburgs and the Bourbons.

4. Albanians had the humanist philosophers, who with their genius ideas, were advisers to the imperial families in Hungary, Italy and Austria (Gjon Gazhuli, Pal Ungjëlli, Leonik Tomeo and Gjon Durrsaku).

5. Albanian cities had statutes and were governed by democracy while at the same time America for example it was governed by the Cherokee Indians or the Aztec tribes who still drank human blood and lived as cannibals.

6. In Durrës, intellectualism was so high that we have documented in the 12th century for the first time the note of protest of an Orthodox Metropolitan, who writes to Constantinople, against slavery, 300 years before it started as a debate in Europe.

7. In Durrës, trade was done even with Tunisia, Ukraine and France, since the 5th century. While at the same time for example the Scandinavian countries still lived by worshiping the tree or the mountain.

8. The Church of Albania had issued a Cardinal (and a cardinal was no small thing then).

What happened next? The Ottomans just came and for 500 years made that every Albanian forgot who they really were.

[elbarimorllati]

Vielen Dank Robert Menasse für die wahren Worte 🙏

[BeLo-fs]

Respekt i nderuara ju e njihni kanuni me mire se ne shqiptare

[paulo]

Kanun: bedeutet (kanonas griechische) Regeln, und das war eine Pakete mit Regeln in Mittelalter in Albanien.