This is good. The Romanness of the medieval western Roman Empire deserves more emphasis. See Vedran Sulovsky's important book (listed here). Recent research suggests the Cappenberg bust was a reliquary from the start so probably isn't FB (though still Romanising). www.imhof-verlag.de/barbarossa-d...
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Len Scales.bsky.social
Frederick II is well known as perhaps the greatest classicist monarch of the medieval world, but did you know Frederick Barbarossa also couldn’t stop thinking about Rome?
Check out Toby Bendle’s article in the latest issue of @epoch-history.bsky.social
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/the-leg...
From the empire-wide messaging in his minting, to the private dialogue, both penned and subliminal through his iconography, Frederick Barbarossa stood as both one of the greatest Hellenophiles followi...
