Resumen de 'In this time without emperors': the politics of Ernst Kantorowicz's "Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite" reconsidered
It seems that the more Ernst Kantorowicz's 1927 biography Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite is acclaimed as a seminal work of historiography, the more its political dimension sinks into oblivion. The current Kantorowicz renaissance increasingly obscures the problematic aspects of his early work. h Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite was popular among officials of the Nazi party and the German Wehrmacht, but most contemporary critics see no affinities between the book's politics and Nazism. Kantorowicz's reaction to the Nazi seizure of power was as ambivalent as his depiction of Frederick II as a great German ruler. The writer explores the resonances between the ideas of “Deutschtum” (Germanness) and “Herrschaft” (rulership or sovereignty) in Kantorowicz's book and in Nazi ideology.
