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      Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church: The Career of Philippe of Cahors

      William Chester Jordan

      This is a short and engaging study of an important and successful figure in thirteenth-century France, the radical reformer and bishop of Evreux, Philippe of Cahors.

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      Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France: Kingship, Crusades and the Jews

      William Chester Jordan

      Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard…

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      The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century

      William Chester Jordan

      The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe. This work provides a comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western…

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      Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies

      William Chester Jordan

      In this wide-ranging and provocative study, the author assesses the overall significance of women’s work in medieval and early modern Europe, and in colonial and postcolonial societies.

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      From Servitude to Freedom: Manumission in the Senonais in the Thirteenth Century

      William Chester Jordan

      Manumission–the freeing of serfs–was of major significance to medieval French society. William Chester Jordan studies the causes and consequences of the movement.

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      The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians

      William Chester Jordan

      From 1179 to 1328 relations between French Christians and Jews were chronically unstable–exploitation, repression, and expulsion were sanctioned by a government dedicated to a purified Christian state. The French Monarchy…

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      The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX

      William Chester Jordan

      The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military…

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      The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX

      William Chester Jordan

      The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military…

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      A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century

      William Chester Jordan

      Takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval…

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      Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques De Therines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians

      William Chester Jordan

      Explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the period 1290-1321. This book traces the emergence of King Philip the…

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      Europe in the High Middle Ages: The Penguin History of Europe

      William Chester 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…

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      Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan

      Center and Periphery honors Willliam Chester Jordan on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The essays by his former doctoral students examine the complexity of negotiating power at the center…

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      The Capetian Century, 1214 to 1314

      This volume provides a fresh look at the Capetian century (1214-1314), a period that changed the cultural and political fabric and laid the foundation for the modernisation of the medieval…

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      Knights, Lords, and Ladies: In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 118-122

      John W. Baldwin

      In his final book, the distinguished historian John Baldwin argues that the aristocrats who inhabited the region of Paris over the turn of the twelfth century were important not only…

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      The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology

      Ernst Kantorowicz

      Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the…

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      The Animal/Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives

      An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

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      On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State

      Joseph R. Strayer

      The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of…

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      Men at the Center: Redemptive Governance Under Louis Ix

      William Chester Jordan (Professor of History, Princeton University)

      Three portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France.

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      Tales of a Minstrel of Reims in the Thirteenth Century

      Samuel N. Rosenberg,William Chester Jordan,Randall Todd Pippenger

      An anonymous minstrel in thirteenth-century France composed this gripping account of historical events in his time. Crusaders and Muslim forces battle for control of the Holy Land, while power struggles…

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      Corrupt Histories

      An examination of the meaning and effects of corruption in 18th to 20th Century history.

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