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Ernst Kantorowicz : a life /

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 h...

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Main Authors: Lerner, Robert E
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, New Jersey :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Kantorowicz, Ernst H. > Ernst Hartwig, > 1895-1963
Historians > Germany > Biography
Medievalists > Germany > Biography
Summary: 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. Born into a wealthy Prussian-Jewish family, Kantorowicz fought on the Western Front in World War I, w
Carrier Form: xv, 400 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780691172828 (hardback : alkaline paper) :
069117282X (hardback : alkaline paper)
Index Number: DD86
CLC: K835.165.81
Call Number: K835.165.81/K168L
Contents: Introduction -- Old Posen and young Ernst -- "With rifle and gun" -- Fine fever -- Heidelberg -- St. George -- The Castle Hill -- Frederick II -- Center of attention -- Becoming a professional -- Frankfurt -- Year of drama -- Oxford -- "Leisure with dignity" -- Flight -- "Displaced foreign scholar" -- "Without any desire for Europe" -- Laudes regiae -- Fight for employment -- "Hyperborean fields" -- "Scarcely wants to go to Germany" -- "Land of lotus-eaters" -- The fundamental issue -- Advanced study -- The king's two bodies -- "EKa is sick of EKa" -- Last years -- Afterword.

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