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    Europe in the High Middle Ages

    Part of The Penguin History of Europe

    Author William Chester Jordan
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Feb 24, 2004 | 400 Pages | 9781101650912
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    From the Crusades to the plague, this account brings to life the key moments of the High Middle Ages.

    It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. Buoyant, confident, creative, the era seemed to be flowering into a true renaissance—until the disastrous fourteenth century rained catastrophe in the form of plagues, famine, and war.

    In Europe in the High Middle Ages, William Chester Jordan paints a vivid, teeming landscape that captures this lost age in all its glory and complexity. Here are the great popes who revived the power of the Church against the secular princes; the writers and thinkers who paved the way for the Renaissance; the warriors who stemmed the Islamic tide in Spain and surged into Palestine; and the humbler estates, those who found new hope and prosperity until the long night of the 1300s. Part of the Penguin History of Europe series, edited by David Cannadine.

    "The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."—New Statesman
    Europe in the High Middle AgesList of Illustrations
    List of Maps
    Acknowledgments
    Notes on Names
    Prologue

    Part I: Europe in the Eleventh Century
    1. Christendom in the Year 1000
    2. Mediterranean Europe
    3. Northmen, Celts and Anglo-Saxons
    4. Francia/France
    5. Central Europe

    Part II: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
    6. The Investiture Controversy
    7. The First Crusade
    8. The World of Learning
    9. Cultural Innovations of the Twelfth Century: Vernacular Literature and Architecture
    10. Political Power and Its Contexts I
    11. Political Power and Its Contexts II

    Part III: The Thirteenth Century
    12. Social Structures
    13. The Pontificate of Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council
    14. Learning
    15. The Kingdoms of the North
    16. Baltic and Central Europe
    17. The Gothic World
    18. Southern Europe

    Part IV: Christendom in the Early Fourteenth Century
    19. Famine and Plague
    20. Political and Social Violence
    21. The Church in Crisis

    Epilogue
    Appendix: Genealogical Tables
    References
    Suggested Reading
    Index

    William Chester Jordan, former director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, is professor of history and director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University. His previous book, The Great Famine, won the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy in 2000. View titles by William Chester Jordan

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    From the Crusades to the plague, this account brings to life the key moments of the High Middle Ages.

    It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. Buoyant, confident, creative, the era seemed to be flowering into a true renaissance—until the disastrous fourteenth century rained catastrophe in the form of plagues, famine, and war.

    In Europe in the High Middle Ages, William Chester Jordan paints a vivid, teeming landscape that captures this lost age in all its glory and complexity. Here are the great popes who revived the power of the Church against the secular princes; the writers and thinkers who paved the way for the Renaissance; the warriors who stemmed the Islamic tide in Spain and surged into Palestine; and the humbler estates, those who found new hope and prosperity until the long night of the 1300s. Part of the Penguin History of Europe series, edited by David Cannadine.

    "The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."—New Statesman

    Table of Contents

    Europe in the High Middle AgesList of Illustrations
    List of Maps
    Acknowledgments
    Notes on Names
    Prologue

    Part I: Europe in the Eleventh Century
    1. Christendom in the Year 1000
    2. Mediterranean Europe
    3. Northmen, Celts and Anglo-Saxons
    4. Francia/France
    5. Central Europe

    Part II: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
    6. The Investiture Controversy
    7. The First Crusade
    8. The World of Learning
    9. Cultural Innovations of the Twelfth Century: Vernacular Literature and Architecture
    10. Political Power and Its Contexts I
    11. Political Power and Its Contexts II

    Part III: The Thirteenth Century
    12. Social Structures
    13. The Pontificate of Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council
    14. Learning
    15. The Kingdoms of the North
    16. Baltic and Central Europe
    17. The Gothic World
    18. Southern Europe

    Part IV: Christendom in the Early Fourteenth Century
    19. Famine and Plague
    20. Political and Social Violence
    21. The Church in Crisis

    Epilogue
    Appendix: Genealogical Tables
    References
    Suggested Reading
    Index

    Author

    William Chester Jordan, former director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, is professor of history and director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University. His previous book, The Great Famine, won the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy in 2000. View titles by William Chester Jordan

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