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    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History

      • John Freed is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University. A specialist in medieval Germany, he earned his bachelor's degree from Cornell in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1969.
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  2. May 30, 2018 · John B. Freed’s Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth, a monumental new study of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick Barbarossa (r. 1152–1190), rises confidently to this challenge, aiming, in the author’s words, “to uncover the prince beneath the myth” (xxxiv). Armed with a fine-grained knowledge of the sources of Frederick’s ...

    • John Eldevik
    • 2018
  3. Jul 14, 2017 · Freed, for example, sees the great court and tournament at Mainz in 1184, where the emperor’s two eldest sons were knighted and Henry publicly displayed as the heir to the kingdom, as a mark of the emperor’s reduced status, little more than one among the various German princes.

    • G A Loud
    • 2017
  4. Aug 10, 2023 · John is a full member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the managing producer of the Triad Showcase Community Theatre. Also, for the last few years he has been a new play contest...

  5. Jan 1, 2016 · John Freed mines Barbarossa's recently published charters and other sources to illuminate the monarch's remarkable ability to rule an empire that stretched from the Baltic to Rome, and...

  6. Aug 14, 2017 · John Freed, ISU Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, said Yale University Press approached him to write "Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth." Freed said Barbarossa is an important character in German history.

  7. Jul 15, 2016 · John Freed fills this gap with his new book, Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth (Yale University Press, 2016), which offers readers both an account of Frederick's life and his posthumous image as a German ruler. Freed begins by describing the historical background of 12th century Germany, setting Frederick's succession to the throne ...

  8. Jan 1, 2016 · John Freed fills the void with this massive new study, a detailed look at Frederick's life based upon the available sources that seeks to address not just Frederick's long reign but how he emerged posthumously as a symbol of German nationalism.