Books by William Chester Jordan

An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

A collection of essays that describe and assess the ways in which royal publicists in Medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regards to protecting and defending Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad.

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. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and military change, alive to the general reader. Jordan presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it. Broad in scope, punctuated with impressive detail, and highly accessible, Jordan's book is set to occupy a central place in university courses of the medieval period.