Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer

by William Chester Jordan

Book Overview

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society. By painstaking archival research, historians such as Joseph R. Strayer and the contributors to this volume have gradually replaced this view with a regard for the period as a time of great intellectual diversity.

These essays, divided into five groups, probe the themes of order and innovation as they appear in medieval government;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691617082
• ISBN13: 9780691617084
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 596 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"