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James P. Ward, Vlaardingen rezensiert Eloquentia copiosus:

Max Kerner (1940) has been professor of medieval history at the technical university of Aachen. His publications include books and articles on Charlemagne and Carolingian history, early and high medieval history, John of Salisbury, and early science and technology. The articles in this »Festschrift« for his 65th birthday are separated into three sections: »Aachen and Charlemagne«, »Fiction and Remembrance«, »Technology and Culture«.

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The book closes with a bibliography of Max Kerner’s works and a Tabula amicorum. Intended first and foremost as a tribute to the Jubilar, editors of Festschriften are concerned to reflect the high regards and at the same time to reveal the work of friends and colleagues. But this book contains much that is of interest to the general reader too, in some perhaps unexpected fields. The time scale extends from the Old Testament, Herodotus, Seneca and St Paul, up and on to the 1930’s and ‘40s, which are still within the memory of some. The temptation to pick and choose chapters of particular interest is hard to resist.

 

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