Frederick II

Frederick II was the last of a line, not just dynastically but in a broader and more important sense.

Parallel Lives Jonathan Sumption 2011

The lives of Frederick II and St. Francis of Assisi overlapped for some three decades in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, but the Holy Roman Emperor and the founder of the Franciscan Order never met.

Parallel Lives Jonathan Sumption 2011

I often tell my introductory psychology students the story of Frederick II of Prussia.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

Holy Roman Emperor King Frederick II wrote the first primer on falconry, with his 13th-century field guide, "The Art of Hunting with Birds."

A Whole Other Ball Game Heidi Mitchell 2012

Frederick II was the last of a line, not just dynastically but in a broader and more important sense.

Parallel Lives Jonathan Sumption 2011

I often tell my introductory psychology students the story of Frederick II of Prussia.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

The lives of Frederick II and St. Francis of Assisi overlapped for some three decades in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, but the Holy Roman Emperor and the founder of the Franciscan Order never met.

Parallel Lives Jonathan Sumption 2011

Peter's loyalty to Frederick II of Prussia was significantly greater than his sense of responsibility for the vast country that he inherited from his aunt at the end of 1761.

The Rise Of an Empress Jennifer Siegel 2011

In a brilliant passage he compared the Brussels Eurocracy with the "enlightened despotisms" of the 18th century under Frederick II of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria, with their "ideal of efficient, universal administration, shorn of particularisms and driven by rational calculation and the rule of law".

Tony Judt obituary 2010

There was a young king on the Prussian throne, Frederick II, who was on his way to becoming Frederick the Great, and his capital was seething with new ideas.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009