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William Chester Jordan

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William Chester Jordan


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in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
April 07, 1948

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William Chester Jordan is an American medievalist who serves as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University; he is a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his work concerning the Great Famine of 1315–1317. 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.

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Europe in the High Middle Ages

3.74 avg rating — 764 ratings — published 2001 — 23 editions
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The Great Famine

3.88 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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The Apple of His Eye: Conve...

3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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A Tale of Two Monasteries: ...

3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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The Middle Ages: A Watts Gu...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
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Louis IX and the Challenge ...

4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions
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Unceasing Strife, Unending ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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The French Monarchy and the...

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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From England to France: Fel...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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From Servitude to Freedom: ...

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions
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