Book description
With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has
turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the
opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this
period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and
military change, alive to the general reader. 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
are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it. Broad in
scope, punctuated with impressive detail, and highly accessible,
Jordan's book is set to occupy a central place in university courses of
the medieval period. William Chester Jordan is Professor of History at
Princeton University and the author of THE GREAT FAMINE.
