William Chester Jordan
William Chester Jordan | |
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| Born | April 7, 1948 |
| Education | Ripon College (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
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| Notable work | Europe in the High Middle Ages (2004) |
| Title | Dayton-Stockton Professor of History |
| Awards | Haskins Medal (1996) American Philosophical Society (2000) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) |
William Chester Jordan (born April 7, 1948) is an American medievalist who serves as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University; he is a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his work concerning the Great Famine of 1315–1317. He is also a former director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton. Jordan has studied and published on the Crusades, English constitutional history, gender, economics, Judaism, and, most recently, church-state relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.