Europe in the High Middle Ages - William Chester Jordan

'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the
multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily Telegraph

The years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were
the most formative period in European history: a time of intense social,
political, cultural and religious change. In this definitive work one
of the world's leading medievalists explores a confident, dynamic age,
far removed from our own.

'Jordan
writes elegantly and ironically, giving the reader a broad but not
dumbed-down view of medieval society and its complexities. A splendid
start to Penguin's History of Europe series and a first-rate work in its
own right' Kirkus Reviews

'The Penguin History of Europe series is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman