![]() | A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century Subjects: Westminster Abbey -- History; Abbaye de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis France) -- History; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1216–1272; France -- Politics and government -- 1226–1270; Richard de Ware d. 1283; Mathieu de Vendôme d. 1286; A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically compare Westminster Abbey and the abbey of Saint-Denis--two of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of the thirteenth century--and to do so through the lives and competing careers of the two men who ruled them, Richard de Ware of Westminster and Mathieu de Vendôme of Saint-Denis. William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians (Princeton) and Europe in the High Middle Ages . |
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