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  • This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (–), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic.
  • This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (–), an influential and controversial German– American intellectual whose colorful and.
  • The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth century.

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    Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

    Table of contents :
    Contents
    List of Figures
    Acknowledgments
    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Chapter 1. Old Posen and Young Ernst
    Chapter 2. “With Rifle and Gun”
    Chapter 3. Fine Fever
    Chapter 4. Heidelberg
    Chapter 5. St. George
    Chapter 6. The Castle Hill
    Chapter 7. Frederick II
    Chapter 8. Center of Attention
    Chapter 9. Becoming a Professional
    Chapter Frankfurt
    Chapter Year of Drama
    Chapter Oxford
    Chapter “Leisure with Dignity”
    Chapter Flight
    Chapter “Displaced utländsk Scholar”
    Chapter “Without Any Desire for Europe”
    Chapter Laudes Regiae
    Chapter Fight for Employment
    Chapter “Hyperborean Fields”
    Chapter “Scarcely Wants to Go to Germany”
    Chapter “Land of Lotus-Eaters”
    Chapter The Fundamental Issue
    Chapter Advanced Study
    Chapter The King’s Two Bodies
    Chapter “EKa Is Sick of EKa”
    Chapter Last Years
    Afterword
    Index

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    Ernst Kantorowicz

    Ernst Kantorowicz a L ife

    Robert E. Lerner

    Princeton University Press Princ

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    Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

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    The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth century

    This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (–), 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 biography of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and The King's Two Bodies (), a classic study of medieval politics.

    Born into a wealthy Prussian-Jewish family, Kantorowicz fought on the Western Front in World War I, was wounded at Verdun, and earned an Iron Cross; later, he earned an Iron Crescent for service in Anatolia before an affair with a general’s mistress led to Kantorowicz being sent home. After the war, he fo