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Europe in the High Middle Ages
William Chester Jordan
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Description for Europe in the High Middle Ages
paperback. Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16pp b&w illustrations, maps, genealogical tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 296.
'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily Telegraph
The years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most formative period in European history: a time of intense social, political, cultural and religious change. In this definitive work one of the world's leading medievalists explores a confident, dynamic age, far removed from our own.
'Jordan writes elegantly and ironically, giving the reader a broad but not dumbed-down view of medieval ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140166644
SKU
V9780140166644
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About William Chester Jordan
William Chester Jordan is Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of several books, including Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies, (1993) The Great Famine (1996) and From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages (2015).
Reviews for Europe in the High Middle Ages
The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects New Statesman With five volumes now out, the Penguin History of Europe series ... is shaping up to be the best general account available, superseding all previous ones Economist