{"product_id":"europe-in-the-high-middle-ages-isbn-9780140166644","title":"Europe in the High Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Crusades to the plague, this account brings to life the key moments of the High Middle Ages.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEurope in the High Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. Part of the Penguin History of Europe series, edited by David Cannadine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003eEurope in the High Middle AgesList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Names\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Europe in the Eleventh Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Christendom in the Year 1000\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mediterranean Europe\u003cbr\u003e 3. Northmen, Celts and Anglo-Saxons\u003cbr\u003e 4. Francia\/France\u003cbr\u003e 5. Central Europe\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Investiture Controversy\u003cbr\u003e 7. The First Crusade\u003cbr\u003e 8. The World of Learning\u003cbr\u003e 9. Cultural Innovations of the Twelfth Century: Vernacular Literature and Architecture\u003cbr\u003e 10. Political Power and Its Contexts I\u003cbr\u003e 11. Political Power and Its Contexts II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Thirteenth Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Social Structures\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Pontificate of Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council\u003cbr\u003e 14. Learning\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Kingdoms of the North\u003cbr\u003e 16. Baltic and Central Europe\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Gothic World\u003cbr\u003e 18. Southern Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Christendom in the Early Fourteenth Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19. Famine and Plague\u003cbr\u003e 20. Political and Social Violence\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Church in Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Genealogical Tables\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Suggested Reading\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Chester Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Famine\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300504555749,"sku":"NP9780140166644","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140166644.jpg?v=1767726406","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/europe-in-the-high-middle-ages-isbn-9780140166644","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}