Europe in the High Middle Ages: The Penguin History of Europe PDF
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PENGUIN BOOKS THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF EUROPE GENERAL EDITOR: DAVID CANNADINE EUROPE IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES William Chester Jordan, former Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (1994–9), is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century, which won the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America in 2000. THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF EUROPE I: SIMON PRICE Classical Europe II: CHRISTOPHER WICKHAM Early Medieval Europe III: WILLIAM JORDAN Europe in the High Middle Ages* IV: ANTHONY GRAFTON Renaissance Europe, 1350–1517 V: MARK GREENGRASS Reformation Europe, 1515–1648 VI: TIM BLANNING The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815 * VII: RICHARD J. EVANS Europe 1815–1914 VIII: IAN KERSHAW Twentieth-Century Europe already published * WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN Europe in the High Middle Ages PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London , England WC2R 0RL Penguin Group (USA), Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London , England WC2R 0RL www.penguin.com First published by Allen Lane 2001 Published in Penguin Books 2002 9 Copyright © William Chester Jordan, 2001 All rights reserved The moral right of the author has been asserted Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser ISBN: 978-0-14-193572-0 Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements 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 List of Illustrations (Photographic acknowledgements are given in parentheses) 1 San Bartolomeo, Pantano, Pistoia, Italy. (Photo: © Scala) 2 Basilica of San Pietro, Moissac, Italy. (Photo: © Scala) 3 Autun Cathedral, France (Photo: © Corbis) 4 Durham Cathedral, England. (Photo: © Scala) 5 Basilica of Vézelay, France. (Photo: © Ludovic Maisant/Corbis) 6 San Millan, Castile, Spain. (Photo: © A.I.S.A.) 7 Basilica of Vézelay, France. (Photo: © Scala) 8 Rose window, Chartres Cathedral, Notre Dame, Paris. (Photo: © Corbis) 9 Gothic reliquary (National Gallery, Perugia, Italy) (Photo: © Scala) 10 Notre Dame, Paris, France (Photo: © Scala) 11 Bourges Cathedral, France. (Photo: © Scala) 12 World map, c. 1250 (Ms.Add.2861, fol.9, British Library, London). (Photo: © AKG London) 13 Krak des Chevaliers, Syria, c. 1142. (Photo: © AKG London) 14 Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. (Photo: © Scala) 15 Bourges Cathedral, France. (Photo: © AKG London/Eric Lessing) 16 Burgos Cathedral, Spain. (Photo: © Scala) 17 Westminster Abbey, London. (Photo: © AKG London/Robert O’Dea) 18 Tournai Cathedral, Belgium. (Photo: © Hutchison Library/Bernard Regent) 19 Wells Cathedral, England. (Photo: © Scala) 20 Virgin and Child, by Giovanni Pisano, Pisa, Italy. (Photo: © Scala) 21 Abraham and the Three Angels from the St Louis Psalter. (Biblioteque Nationale de France). (Photo: © The Bridgeman Art
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