Frederick Barbarossa Archives

The Floating State: Trade Embargoes and the Rise of a New Venetian State

October 1, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This paper was given by Georg Christ and examined embargoes and state formation in the late medieval and early modern period in Venice.

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Crime, Crusades, Early Modern, Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Trade, Fourteenth Century, Frederick Barbarossa, Investiture Controversy, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Military History, Nationalism, Papacy, Peace of Venice, Pope Alexander III, Pope Sixtus IV, The Myth of Venice, Twelfth Century, Venice, Violence, War of Ferrara

MOVIE REVIEW: Barbarossa – Siege Lord

May 28, 2014 By Medievalists.net

MOVIE REVIEW: Barbarossa – Siege Lord “I order Milan to be raised to the ground. None of its towers will ever be standing. I also order all the Milanese to leave the city before sunset, in all different directions so that no one will be able to call themselves Milanese and the name “milan” will […]

Filed Under: Features, Films Tagged With: Alberto da Giussano, Barbarossa (Film), Film, Frederick Barbarossa, Germany, High Middle Ages, Italy, Milan, Twelfth Century

Regnum et sacerdotium in Alsatian Romanesque Sculpture: Hohenstaufen Politics in the Aftermath of the Investiture Controversy (1130-1235)

December 5, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Although no longer preserved today, a series of paintings in the St. Nicholas chapel of the Lateran palace in Rome incurred Frederick Barbarossa’s wrath because they presented his predecessor, King Lothar of Supplinburg (1025-1137), in a submissive position as the pope’s vassal

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Art History, Christianity, Early Middle Ages, Eleventh Century, Frederick Barbarossa, High Middle Ages, Hohenstaufen, Investiture Controversy, Papacy, Romanesque, Twelfth Century

Penance and Peter Abelard’s Move Within

April 21, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Of the many individuals in the twelfth century whose fame in their own time has reached down to ours, figures like Thomas Becket, Frederick Barbarossa and Bernard of Clairvaux, there is no one whose fame surpassed that of Master Peter Abelard and no figure more public. Indeed, fame was something Abelard coveted, something he consciously built.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Bernard of Clairvaux, Christianity, France, Frederick Barbarossa, High Middle Ages, Monasticism, Philosophy, Religious Life, Social History, Theology, Twelfth Century

Furor Teutonicus: The View of the ‘Germans’ in Italy during the Reign of Emperor Frederick I, ‘Barbarossa’ (1152-90)

November 19, 2012 By Medievalists.net

“Medieval Europe did not love the Germans. The Italians hated them, the French admitted their courage, but detested their manners, the English were jealous of them, the Slavs both feared and hated them, while the Germans despised and contemned the Slavs.”16 But it is the Italian side I would like to concentrate on in this paper. Further, I do not wish to examine the reasons for the conflicts between ‘Germans’ and ‘Italians’ in this era, nor the events surrounding them. I will try to focus strictly on the views that were expressed about Germans in mediaeval Italy in general and during the reign of Frederick Barbarossa in particular.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Barbarians, Charlemagne, Early Middle Ages, Franks, Frederick Barbarossa, Germany, High Middle Ages, Italy, Military History, Nationalism, Papacy, Politics, Social History, The Lombard League, Twelfth Century

The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade

August 29, 2012 By Medievalists.net

It is my intention to show that the participation of monarchs in the Third Crusade had an adverse effect on the outcome of the Crusade. Whatever positive aspects of monarchical involvement in the Third Crusade were to be had can be seen at the beginning of the venture, when the Church needed financial and material support, as well as the prestige that royal participation could offer.