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Zusatztext "[This book's] value is beyond question." ---Martin Woessner, American Historical Review Informationen zum Autor Robert E. Lerner is professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University! where he taught medieval history for more than forty years. The author of many books! he is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the American Academy in Rome! and a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Klappentext This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963)! an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond his field! he is most famous for two books--a notoriously nationalistic 1927 biography of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and The King's Two Bodies (1957)! a classic study of medieval politics. Zusammenfassung This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond his field, he is most famous for two books--a notor
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"Ernst Kantorowicz, one of the most interesting and influential historians of the twentieth century, has found his ideal biographer in Robert Lerner, who as a medievalist is well versed in the many branches of Kantorowicz's scholarship. Drawing on unique sources, including important collections of unpublished letters and interviews with people who knew Kantorowicz, Lerner presents a lively, vivid picture of the historians life and writings."--Eckhart Grünewald, author of Ernst Kantorowicz and Stefan George
