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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A brilliant portrait of Europe in the full flower of the Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung "The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."-- New Statesman 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. From high to low, from dramatic events to social structures, Jordan's account brings to life this fascinating age. Part of the Penguin History of Europe series, edited by David Cannadine. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
