1st Edition
Men at the Center Redemptive Governance under Louis IX
By William Chester Jordan
Copyright 2012
146 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Taking Professor Natalie Zemon Davis’ fascinating biographical studies of three Women on the Margins in the seventeenth century as an inspiration, the author of this book offers 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... Read more
Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: Robert of Sorbon, Churchman, Chapter 2: Étienne Boileau, Bourgeois, Chapter 3: Simon de Nesle, Aristocrat, Epilogue, Notes, List of References,Index
Biography
William Chester Jordan is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department of Princeton University.He has been Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (1994 to 1999).
