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.
關於作者:
William Chester Jordan is professor of history and director of
the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University.
目錄:
Europe
Mediterranean Europe in the eleventh
century
Northern Europe in the eleventh
century
France in the eleventh century
Central Europe in the eleventh
century
The First Crusade
Northern Europe in the twelfth
century
Southern Europe including Crusader
States in the twelfth century
The Fourth Crusade
England and France in the twelfth
century
Scandinavia, Gerrhany, Hungary and the
Slavic lands in the thirteenth century
Latercrusades