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Stupor Mundi

Lionel Allshorn

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Stupor Mundi

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Frederick II, under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries "Stupor Mundi," the "astonishment of the world." Frequently at war with the papacy, which was hemmed in between Frederick's northern and southern Italian lands, he was excommunicated four times. Frederick spoke six languages and was an avid patron of the arts. He negotiated a peace treaty ending the sixth crusade, reigned over a cosmopolitan court at Palermo, and entrusted the administration of his southern kingdom to an efficient Muslim and Jewish bureaucracy. Allshorn writes that "around his name there gathered a glamour of strangeness and splendor, of genius soaring to perilous questionings of eternal truths, of unbreakable resolution and of unconquerable pride."
Michael 01/19/2021
Useful as a quick introduction but very partisan. As a historian Allshorn betrays himself with judgements like this on the institution of the Papacy and by implication the entire Catholic Church:

'"I will give back to the sheep their shepherd, to the people their bishop, to the world its spiritual fa
أشرف 05/22/2020
Thorough and simple. A fascinating biography of a fascinating figure who lived during a fascinating time.
James 07/10/2018
yuck. ugly writing by a poor writer

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