Three portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France-men who strove in the shadow of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) to impose a redemptive regime on the realm. Professor Jordan treats them as individuals, but in a sense they are also types: …
Europe in the High Middle Ages
The author presents this period of economic, social, political, cultural, religious and military change as a lost age that had risen up from the remains of the Roman Empire and ended with the great plagues and famines.
From 1179 to 1328 relations between French Christians and Jews were chronically unstable--exploitation, repression, and expulsion were sanctioned by a government dedicated to a purified Christian state. The French Monarchy and the Jews tells in rich and compelling detail the fat…
La monarchie française et les juives: Philippe Augustus aux capétiens derniers.
