This book was designed to explore as fully as possible the appropriateness of the phrase immutator mundi or transformer of the world, as applied by contemporaries to Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, to establish the relationship of his many-sided achievements to those of his Norman and Hohenstaufen antecedents; to describe the circle of associates who participated in his manifold activities; and, finally, to seek the origin and to trace the course of the unremitting hostility of contemporary popes to him and to his concept of empire. The author has critically examined and judiciously employed all available contemporary chronicles, letters, official documents, polemical writings, and all other pertinent materials that either directly or indirectly bear upon the subject. In addition, the book is in no wise concerned with the spiritual motivation of the priesthood.
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comprehensive in depth biography,
This review is from: The Emperor of Frederick II If Hohenstaufen: Immutator Mundi (Hardcover)
This biography places Frederick II, stupor mundi, emporer ofthe romans, king of sicilie, king of jerusalem, in his time. Itcovers his German and Norman-Sicilian heritage, the regency of Innocent III, his struggles with Otto IV, his actions as a Roman (German) Emperor, his patronage of science and arts, his intellectual persuits, his model state in Sicilie, his battle with the popes, how he became king of Jerusalem, the crusade, his extraordinary open mindedness regarding moslims, and foreign cultures, his legislation, the struggles with his first born son, his three wives, his expeditions against the Lombards, his excommunications, his death. This well written biography can be read as an introduction on Frederick II, because a lot of necessary context on the period is provided. It contains extensive notes and lists of primary and secondary sources.
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