FREDERIC\u00a0OF HOHENSTAUFEN was\u00a0\u00a0Frederic “Barbarossa” grand-son. He became\u00a0King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Jerusalem and had been\u00a0rated as “the first modern European”. He was multilingual and had an insatiable curiosity for science and the arts. He\u00a0actively pursued a plan to integrate the Western, Byzantine and Muslim civilizations by way of intelligence rather than strength.\u00a0He developed universities, medical schools, centers of artistic creation and other institutions\u00a0that could have brought about “The Renaissance” three centuries earlier and that couls have unifed Europe as soon as in\u00a0the twelfth century. But\u00a0the papacy was\u00a0his implacable enemy and\u00a0prevailed over him and all his creations with the power of “excommunication”.<\/p>\n
Copyright:\u00a0Alice Labr\u00e8que and Jean Routier, Qu\u00e9bec, 2012-2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FREDERIC\u00a0OF HOHENSTAUFEN was\u00a0\u00a0Frederic “Barbarossa” grand-son. He became\u00a0King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Jerusalem and had been\u00a0rated as “the first modern European”. He was multilingual and had an insatiable curiosity for science and the arts. He\u00a0actively pursued a plan…<\/span><\/p>\n