A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century
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"Another classic Jordan book: wholly original in conception, thoroughly grounded in the primary sources, and written in a vigorous, inimitable style. With a keen eye for detail, Jordan has strewn his chapters with perceptive observations about the principal...
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"Another classic Jordan book: wholly original in conception, thoroughly grounded in the primary sources, and written in a vigorous, inimitable style. With a keen eye for detail, Jordan has strewn his chapters with perceptive observations about the principal players and their complex relationships. This is a thought-provoking and thoroughly absorbing book. Readers will find a vivid window into the thirteenth century."--Theodore Evergates, author of "The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300""This is an original and striking book by a leading American medievalist. It will be essential reading for all scholars in the field. Written in a clear and accessible prose, it will also reach a wider public."--David Carpenter, author of "The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066-1284"
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv TECHNICAL MATTERS: CURRENCIES, CALENDARS, NOMENCLATURE xvii CHAPTER I: England and France in the Early Thirteenth Century 1 CHAPTER II: Two Great Monasteries and Two Young Men 25 CHAPTER III: The Treaty of Paris 49 CHAPTER IV: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 66 CHAPTER V: A Monumental Rivalry 100 CHAPTER VI: Two Royal Successions 130 CHAPTER VII: The Abbeys in the New Regimes 159 CHAPTER VIII: Diplomacy and Governance 182 CHAPTER IX: Epilogue 216 BIBLIOGRAPHY 223 INDEX 243
Autoren-Porträt von William Chester Jordan
William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include" Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thrines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians" (Princeton) and "Europe in the High Middle Ages".
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- Autor: William Chester Jordan
- 2009, 245 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0691139016
- ISBN-13: 9780691139012
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Englisch
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Jordan, a Princeton professor and a much-lauded medievalist, knows a good coincidence when he sees one. He has set about comparing and contrasting the tenures of the two abbots (which both lasted for a quarter of a century) and, along the way, he manages to provide some fascinating insights into the turbulent thirteenth-century relationship between France and England. This is a spectacularly accomplished book: learned, witty and very important. The shock is that no one has undertaken such a study before... I've said it once, and I'm told that repetition is a useful rhetorical device, so here we go again: this book is superb. -- Jonathan Wright, The Tablet [T]his is a work that could only be written by a scholar who has spent a career examining the intricacies of medieval government in the often turbulent years of the thirteenth century. As such, the reader is well served by Professor Jordan's excellent book. -- Leonie Hicks, Church History In this tidy comparative study of two of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of the Middle Ages, Jordan uses the monasteries and the men chosen to govern them in 1258 as an entry into relations between 13th-century England and France. -- "Choice William Chester Jordan's ... meticulous research, lively mind, and unburdened prose... A Tale of Two Monasteries is a closely researched and energetic cameo. -- Paul Binski, Catholic Historical Review Jordan's comparative approach and expert insights make this book an important study for scholars in the field. Its lucid style, engaging narrative, compact synthesis, and clear explanations, however, open up the political and ecclesiastical world of the thirteenth century to a wider audience and it is likely to become a favourite textbook and a model for historical writing. -- Marc B. Cels, Canadian Journal of History Jordan enlists these two monasteries, their abbots, and especially their documents to trace a new and privileged path through the political history of later
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thirteenth-century England and France. Jordan has given us another of his own classics, a refreshing account of a well-known era. -- David C. Mengel, Journal of World History Meticulous in historical detail, A Tale of Two Monasteries tells a remarkable and rather captivating narrative... Jordan's research is based on a thorough reading of a huge array of documents... The bibliography is impressive, and the citations and discursive footnotes are immensely valuable to medieval scholarship. But Jordan is also a storyteller; he captures something of the spirit of daily life... The reader has a sense of being there and is guided through the poignancies, the portent, and the bearing these royal successions will have for the abbeys and their abbots. -- Rosemary Drage Hale, Journal of British Studies
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