Europe in the High Middle Ages

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Jordan, William Chester 저자(글)

Penguin Books · 2004년 02월 24일

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The author presents this period of economic, social, political, cultural, religious and military change as a lost age that had risen up from the remains of the Roman Empire and ended with the great plagues and famines.
William Chester Jordan is professor of history and director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University.
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.
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 William Chester Jordan, one of the world's leading medievalists, explores a confident, dynamic age, far removed from our own. The society that emerged at the beginning of the second millennium was a fervently Christian and ambitious one, where the power of the church and nation-states expanded and learning flourished. From the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, Professor Jordan brings to life the values and achievements of the High Medieval period: the religious crusades, the epic literature, the great universities of England, France and Italy, and the momentous achievements of Gothic architecture. He also brilliantly examines how the 'fire break' of the fourteenth century -- famines, plagues and wars -- was to bring this world dramatically to an end. Book jacket.
With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned has considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and military change, alive to the general reader. Jordan 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. Broad in scope, punctuated with impressive detail, and highly accessible, Jordan's book is set to occupy a central place in university courses of the medieval period.
With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and military change, alive to the general reader. Jordan 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. Broad in scope, punctuated with impressive detail, and highly accessible, Jordan's book is set to occupy a central place in university courses of the medieval period.
"Jordan marvelously weaves the many and various events of the years 1000--1350 into a splendid historical tapestry. That this is the inaugural volume in the Penguin History of Europe augurs very well for the series." ( Publishers Weekly) "A splendid start to Penguin#146;s History of Europe series . . . [Jordan] writes elegantly and ironically, giving the reader a broad, but not dumbed down view of medieval society and its complexities." ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)"
Jordan marvelously weaves the many and various events of the years 1000?350 into a splendid historical tapestry. That this is the inaugural volume in the Penguin History of Europe augurs very well for the series.?(Publishers Weekly) A splendid start to Penguin? History of Europe series . . . [Jordan] writes elegantly and ironically, giving the reader a broad, but not dumbed down view of medieval society and its complexities.?(Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
??ordan marvelously weaves the many and various events of the years 1000??350 into a splendid historical tapestry. That this is the inaugural volume in the Penguin History of Europe augurs very well for the series.??( Publishers Weekly) ?? splendid start to Penguin?? History of Europe series . . . [Jordan] writes elegantly and ironically, giving the reader a broad, but not dumbed down view of medieval society and its complexities.??( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
Jordan marvelously weaves the many and various events of the years 1000?350 into a splendid historical tapestry. That this is the inaugural volume in the Penguin History of Europe augurs very well for the series.?(Publishers Weekly) A splendid start to Penguin? History of Europe series . . . [Jordan] writes elegantly and ironically, giving the reader a broad, but not dumbed down view of medieval society and its complexities.?(Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
A brilliant portrait of Europe in the full flower of the Middle Ages.

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저자(글) Jordan, William Chester

목차

• List of Illustrations	p. vii
  List of Maps	p. ix
  Acknowledgements	p. x
  Notes on Names	p. xi
  Prologue	p. 1
  Europe in the Eleventh Century
  Christendom in the Year 1000	p. 5
  Mediterranean Europe	p. 20
  Northmen, Celts and Anglo-Saxons	p. 38
  Francia/France	p. 52
  Central Europe	p. 66
  The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
  The Investiture Controversy	p. 85
  The First Crusade	p. 100
  The World of Learning	p. 113
  Cultural Innovations of the Twelfth Century: Vernacular Literature and Architecture	p. 129
  Political Power and Its Contexts	p. 143
  Political Power and Its Contexts II	p. 161
  The Thirteenth Century
  Social Structures	p. 181
  The Pontificate of Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council	p. 194
  Learning	p. 213
  The Kingdoms of the North	p. 226
  Baltic and Central Europe	p. 243
  The Gothic World	p. 259
  Southern Europe	p. 271
  Christendom in the Early Fourteenth Century
  Famine and Plague	p. 289
  Political and Social Violence	p. 302
  The Church in Crisis	p. 314
  Epilogue	p. 327
  Genealogical Tables	p. 329
  References	p. 344
  Suggested Reading	p. 348
  Index	p. 355
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ISBN	9780140166644 ( 0140166645 )
발행(출시)일자	2004년 02월 24일
쪽수	382쪽
크기	130 * 196 * 28 mm / 317 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어