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William Chester Jordan

Autor/a de Europe in the High Middle Ages

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William Chester Jordan is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department of Princeton University. He was Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (1994 to 1999). His most recent book is A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in mostra'n més the Tbirteenth Century (2009). mostra'n menys

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Obres de William Chester Jordan

Europe in the High Middle Ages (2001) 512 exemplars
The Great Famine (1996) 82 exemplars
The Middle Ages (1996) 10 exemplars

Obres associades

On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State (1970) — Pròleg — 328 exemplars
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 5, c.1198-c.1300 (1999) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
Corrupt Histories (Studies in Comparative History) (2004) — Editor, algunes edicions4 exemplars
Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times (2004) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions3 exemplars

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JORDAN, William Chester
JORDAN, William C.
Data de naixement
1948-04-07
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
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USA
Professions
historian
university professor
Organitzacions
Princeton University
Biografia breu
William Chester Jordan (born 1948) is an American medievalist, in which field he is a Haskins Medal winner. He is currently the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department at Princeton University. He is also a former Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton. Jordan has studied and published on the Crusades, English constitutional history, gender, economics, Judaism, and, most recently, church-state relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Biography

Jordan earned his PhD at Princeton, where he was a student of Joseph R. Strayer, in 1973. He was Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 1994 to 1999. In 1996, he won the annual Charles Homer Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America for his outstanding work on the Great Famine, published in The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century. He was elected the Second Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2012.

Jordan has shown a marked interest in pedagogy and edited single-volume and four-volume encyclopaedias on the Middle Ages, aimed at the elementary and middle-school audiences respectively. He is the editor-in-chief of the first supplemental volume of the Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

Besides being an expert on the Great Famine, Jordan has made a name in the study of the reign of Louis IX of France, especially with respect to his Crusades. His Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade is "the most comprehensive secondary source account of the seventh crusade currently available" and has been cited by Frances Gies, Malcolm Barber, and Robert Chazan.

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In this slim book, William Chester Jordan examines Louis IX's attempts at conversion of Muslims from North Africa and Acre during the Seventh Crusade and their subsequent resettling in France. On the basis of a careful reading of the records for Louis' reign, Jordan estimates that perhaps a thousand such individuals were settled primarily in northern France where they were in receipt of royal pensions. This is a masterclass in how to work with an extremely fragmentary source base, though at times he strays more extensively into the realm of imaginative inference/question asking than I was wholly comfortable with. (Also frankly at points it felt a bit like padding—should this have been a book or an extended journal article?) Still, it would allow for great conversation in the classroom about methodologies and the possibilities of historical recovery.… (més)
 
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siriaeve | Dec 14, 2020 |
The fourteenth century sucked in a lot of ways, not just because of the Black Death. In its early decades, several years of terrible weather combined with varied socio-economic circumstances to result in a devastating famine in northwestern Europe. William Chester Jordan brings together an impressively broad array of sources—from chronicles and annals to legal and financial records, letters, and literature—to explore the impact which the bad years of 1315-22 had. There's much here for anyone working on social history to mine, though for a more up-to-date synthesis of the information on the scientific/climate-data side of things, see Bruce Campbell's The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World.… (més)
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