# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-chester-jordan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:43:01.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-chester-jordan"
name: "William Chester Jordan"
slug: "william-chester-jordan"
description: "William Chester Jordan 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."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.8125
  historical:           6.543449333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chester_Jordan"
    title: "William Chester Jordan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chester_Jordan"
    title: "William Chester Jordan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chester_Jordan"
    title: "William Chester Jordan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Джордан, Уильям Честер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump