The decision to mount a crusade depended on the enthusiasm that could be turned from investing resources at home into investing them in war and settlement abroad. It must be said that it was far easier to maintain enthusiasm for large ...
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.
generally called sergeants, a term with servile connotations in that area; thereafter, they were called squires and considered noble. The result of this evolution is witnessed by a charter of 1293 emanating from Manosque in Provence, ...
The Penguin History of Europe William Chester Jordan. A. Gasiorowski (ed.), Polish Nobility in the Middle Ages: Anthologies (Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossoli'nskich, 1984) Roberta L. Krueger (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval ...
What the literature indubitably shows is that men saw all crimes or deviations as analogous. The charges against Boniface VIII ... 28 My Men and Women at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars 42. 29 Contra hereticos 1 63 in PL CCX 366.
The world of mediaeval Europe continues to haunt us: its great works of art, its cathedrals and castles, many of its institutions - and yet this is a civilization from...