Europe in the High Middle Ages

by Jordan, William Chester

• ISBN13: 9780140166644
• ISBN10: 0140166645
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-24
• Publisher: PENGUIN

Summary

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.

Author Biography

William Chester Jordan is professor of history and director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Maps	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Notes on Names	xi
Prologue	1	(4)
PART I: EUROPE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY
Christendom in the Year 1000	5	(15)
Mediterranean Europe	20	(18)
Northmen, Celts and Anglo-Saxons	38	(14)
Francia/France	52	(14)
Central Europe	66	(19)
PART II: THE RENAISSANCE OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY
The Investiture Controversy	85	(15)
The First Crusade	100	(13)
The World of Learning	113	(16)
Cultural Innovations of the Twelfth Century: Vernacular Literature and Architecture	129	(14)
Political Power and Its Contexts I	143	(18)
Political Power and Its Contexts II	161	(20)
PART III: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Social Structures	181	(13)
The Pontificate of Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council	194	(19)
Learning	213	(13)
The Kingdoms of the North	226	(17)
Baltic and Central Europe	243	(16)
The Gothic World	259	(12)
Southern Europe	271	(18)
PART IV: CHRISTENDOM IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Famine and Plague	289	(13)
Political and Social Violence	302	(12)
The Church in Crisis	314	(13)
Epilogue	327	(2)
Appendix: Genealogical Tables	329	(15)
References	344	(4)
Suggested Reading	348	(7)
Index	355