Ernst Kantorowicz : a life / Robert E. Lerner.
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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Language: | English |
Published: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2017. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations. 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. Index.