Robert E. Lerner
Autor von The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages
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Robert E. Lerner is Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author of books including The Age of Adversity, The Heresy of the Free Spirit, and the Feast of Saint Abraham and coauthor of Western Civilizations.
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- Lerner, Robert E.
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- 1940-02-08
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- USA
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- New York, New York, USA
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- Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Princeton University (MA|1962|Ph.D|1964)
University of Chicago (BA|1960) - Berufe
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- Northwestern University
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- Fellow, Medieval Academy of America (1990)
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Robert Lerner was well-placed to write this biography—himself a well-known medievalist, he draws on personal conversations and correspondence with many people who knew Kantorowicz personally. I find it hard to imagine this biography ever being surpassed. Yet despite the depth of Lerner's research, Kantorowicz himself remains an elusive subject, a bundle of contradictions (generous, witty, and determined to live life to the full, he was also a thorough-going misogynist and a snob) whose ideological shifts are difficult to track or categorise. Still, I finished the book rather thinking that that is how Kantorowicz himself would have wished it.… (mehr)