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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A brilliant work of scholarship: the definitive Frederick,
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This review is from: Frederick the 2nd 1194 1250 (Textbook Binding)
Savior or Antichrist -- a question that all of Europe was asking about Frederick II. No one thought that he could be anything but one or the other. Frederick was the greatest of all Emperors, and perhaps the most brilliant man to ever sit at any thrown. In his hereditary kingdom of Sicily he built the most dazzling court, devoted to science, reason, and especially the Law. Frederick believed he was the Justitia, the embodiment of Divine Law of all the World, destined to rule it and to rule it forever. It takes a great scholar to paint a clear and convincing picture of the man who challenged even God, and Ernst Kantorowicz is one of the greatest historians of all time. Clearing Frederick of all contradiction, he shows him as the harbinger of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, International Law, -- the genius and master of all times and eras before and after him. This work is written with almost poetic clarity. The great philosophic themes that lay behind the man and his claims to divinity have never been expouneded in all their glory like this. I highly recommend this! |
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Frederick the 2nd 1194 1250 by Ernest Kantorowicz (Textbook Binding - June 1957)
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