Europe in the High Middle Ages, William Chester Jordan
Europe in the High Middle Ages, William Chester Jordan
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Europe in the High Middle Ages

Author: William Chester Jordan

Narrator: Leon Nixon

Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/29/2019


Synopsis

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.

About William Chester Jordan

William Chester Jordan is Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of The Great Famine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Justin on May 23, 2012

I'm surprised by the low ratings this book has been given- it's nothing jaw-dropping, but, on the other hand, it's short, well written and doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's a selective survey of European history in the later middle ages. It's not trying to convince you that micro-histor......more

Goodreads review by Ozymandias on August 01, 2023

What The Series Should Be This book is much closer to what I expected to find in Penguin’s History of Europe. The first book was breezy but unfocused and tried to cover too much while the second one was a masterpiece of scholarship that’s probably quite advanced for the general reader. This book mana......more

Goodreads review by Corey on June 06, 2023

Penguins History of Europe, Volume #3….Europe in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan. This was an excellent read and markedly different than the second volume by Chris Wickham. Whereas Volume 2 was a dense, intricate examination of the Early Middle Ages, the “Dark Ages”, packed absolutely......more

Goodreads review by Antonio on December 16, 2014

Molto interessante. Un periodo vasto e complesso raccontato in tono per nulla noioso ma non superficiale. Vera sorpresa per me tutto quanto riguarda l'Europa centrale di cui non avevo mai saputo nulla.......more