John B. Freed
Auteur de Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de John B. Freed
Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 (1995) 13 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
Membres
Critiques
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 53
- Popularité
- #303,173
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 8
The result is a very boring history of Barbarossa that will likely be used to torture poor college students who are forced to buy this book for their classes. It also leaves the reader less knowledgeable about Barbarossa that it should. Freed could have rescued the book by making a book about the life and times of Barbarossa explaining better the politics and other figures of that era. Barbara Tuchman did a much better job in this direction in her book The Distant Mirror.
The book also includes long lists of the names of the minor nobility that accompanied Barbarossa on his many expeditions. Since most of the names will be unknown to most readers, the result is an increase in the boredom factor with minimal contributions to elucidation. That said, after the twentieth list of this type, some of the names become familiar and warrant at least a further dip in Wikipedia to learn more about them.… (plus d'informations)