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SOMMERLECHNER Andrea
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Kaiser Friedrich II. und die mittelalterliche Geschichtsschreibung
Year of publication: 1999
Publisher: VÖAW
Format: 664 S., 24 Abb. auf Tafeln, 29,7 x 21 cm, broschiert
Serial:  Publikationen des Historischen Inst. beim Österr. Kulturinst. Rom
ISBN10: 3-7001-2784-7
ISBN13: 978-3-7001-2784-0

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230 historiographic works, primarily from the 13th century, are examined for their relationship to Emperor Frederick II. The Staufer emperor appears as a protagonist or participant in historiographic works that range from historical exegesis to compendia, catalogues of popes and emperors and exemplary history, in the annals and chronicles of the Italian city-states, in the territorial historiography of Germany, Sicily, The Outremer and France. Historiography presents Frederick's royalty in the light of his realms, his wealth, his dynastic position and his representative appearances. Frederick's crusade confronts historiographers with the paradox of the excommunicated crusader and the treaty between the Emperor and the Sultan, marking the transition from the crusade as a strand of the history of salvation to the crusade as a factor of power relationships in the eastern Mediterranean. Frederick's conflict with the communes of upper Italy is dealt with in full. In all the modes of representation the figure of Frederick II remains split between two extremes: Attempts to define the Staufer in a portrait result either in a confinement to examples or in a disintegration into anecdotes. more...

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