Sean Mcglynn

The Teutonic King Arthur

John B. Freed describes the legendary Holy Roman Emperor as intelligent, pragmatic and luckier than most — except in his death by drowning, foretold by a soothsayer

  • Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth

    John B. Freed

    Yale, pp. 710

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