Men at the Center: Redemptive Governance under Louis IX

by William Chester Jordan

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 realm. Professor Jordan treats them as individuals, but in a sense they are also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6155225125
• ISBN13: 9786155225123
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher