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SMART NEWS. The Modern History of Ornithology Starts With This Inquisitive Medieval Emperor. Frederick II got up to a lot in his lifetime. Kat Eschner. December 26, 2017. Frederick II was the first...
Aug 27, 2021 · In his writings, the Prussian king followed the idea of successive great ages of civilization, praising the importance given to the sciences in “our enlightened age” (“notre siècle éclairé”), differentiating the modern approach to the sciences from that of the ancients, and noting Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton among the ...
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Find a square number from which, when five is added or subtracted, always arises a square number [p. 3]. In modern notation this means finding x, y, x, y, and z z so that x2 + 5 = y2 x 2 + 5 = y 2 and x2 − 5 = z2. x 2 − 5 = z 2.
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The world that Frederick was born into was a turbulent one. On one hand, he was the heir of two great emperors, Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI, from the Hohenstaufen (Staufer) dynasty. The Staufers also benefited from the imperial tradition. In modern times historians call the 13th-century empire the Holy Roman Empire to distinguish it from the ...
Frederick and the popes he was contemporary with (the five between Innocent III and Innocent IV (1198-1245)) were at odds more often than not. One thing that divided them was Frederick’s desire to extend his power into northern Italy where some of the rich northern cities had rejected imperial rule. The popes had no interest in falling under Freder...
For the last part of his life (1229-1250) Frederick enjoyed a great deal of success. He was able to play the role of the great emperor convincingly. Frederick’s court at Palermo patronized poetry – in a dialect that would develop into the Sicilian Romance version of Italian. Frederick himself composed in that language. He wrote a work on falconry, ...
As you probably can guess, the controversy between Frederick and the popes can be seen as either simple or complicated, depending on how much one cites original sources. To be simple, emperors and popes each claimed to wield universal power, which left little room for compromise. Refusal to compromise or submit could only be a result of bad faith, ...
The “evil Frederick” interpretation of Stupor mundi has had a long life. Dante (a great poet but also an Italian townsman who fought against pro-imperial forces) in his Divine Comedyplaced Frederick in hell with the other famous heretics of history. As time went on more sympathetic views were possible: Frederick the Renaissance man before the Renai...
Frederick II’s writings have conventionally been viewed either as political tools or as means of public self-fashioning – part of his campaign to raise the status of Prussia from middling principality to great power. This article, by contrast, argues that Frederick’s works must also be taken seriously on their own terms, and
FREDERICK II ° (" the Great "), king of Prussia 1740–86. Like his predecessors, Frederick ii followed the policy of allowing into the kingdom only fixed numbers of *Schutzjuden ("protected Jews"), and took pains to ensure that these remained within defined limits. In keeping with this policy, the General Regulation he issued in 1750 ...
Jul 5, 2008 · Under Frederick II, the first rebirth of Roman culture. By Roderick Conway Morris. July 5, 2008. RIMINI, Italy — RIMINI, Italy: In December 1231, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II passed ...
