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Ernst Kantorowicz was one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. His 1927 biography of Frederick II is still in print, and his masterwork, The King鈥檚 Two Bodies (1957), continues to inspire scholars in a wide variety of fields. From 1935 until his death in 1963, Kantorowicz published some forty essays on an astonishing variety of subjects that reflect the superabundance of his ideas and interests. But he also left behind a number of unpublished essays that rank with his best work. Humanities and History presents for the first time Kantorowicz鈥檚 unpublished essays written in English.

Seven of these essays address subjects across an enormous chronological span, from ancient Greece and Rome to the Renaissance: 鈥淪ynthronos: On Throne-sharing of Gods and Men,鈥� 鈥淩oman Coins and Christian Rites,鈥� 鈥淐oronation Scenarios Eastern and Western,鈥� 鈥淐harles the Bald and the Natales of the King,鈥� 鈥淩oma and the Coal,鈥� 鈥淕losses on Late-Mediaeval State Imagery,鈥� and 鈥淭he Dukes of Burgundy and the Italian Renaissance.鈥� These essays are rounded out by two worthy occasional pieces: an essay on 鈥淗umanities and History鈥� and a talk on 鈥淧ostage Stamps and the Historian.鈥�