The Monastic Order in England: A History of Its Development from the Times of St Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council 940-1216The Monastic Order in England by Dom David Knowles was originally published in 1940 and was quickly recognised as a scholarly classic and masterpiece of historical literature. It covers the period from about 940, when St Dunstan inaugurated the monastic reform by becoming abbot of Glastonbury, to the early thirteenth century. Its core is a marvellous narrative and detailed analysis of monasticism in twelfth-century England, brilliantly set in the continental background of all the monastic movements of the day - with a vivid evocation of Anselm, Ailred, Henry of Blois and a host of other central figures. Dom David himself brought this second edition up to date in 1963. |
Contents
IV | 3 |
V | 16 |
VII | 31 |
VIII | 57 |
IX | 83 |
X | 100 |
XI | 128 |
XII | 145 |
XXV | 363 |
XXVII | 375 |
XXVIII | 395 |
XXIX | 411 |
XXX | 427 |
XXXI | 448 |
XXXII | 487 |
XXXIII | 509 |
XIII | 159 |
XIV | 172 |
XV | 191 |
XVI | 208 |
XVII | 227 |
XVIII | 246 |
XIX | 267 |
XX | 280 |
XXI | 299 |
XXII | 313 |
XXIII | 331 |
XXIV | 346 |
XXXIV | 528 |
XXXV | 539 |
XXXVI | 561 |
XXXVII | 575 |
XXXVIII | 592 |
XXXIX | 607 |
XL | 619 |
XLI | 632 |
XLII | 649 |
XLIII | 662 |
XLIV | 679 |
Other editions - View all
The Monastic Order in England: A History of Its Development from the Times ... David Knowles No preview available - 2004 |
The Monastic Order in England: A History of Its Development from the Times ... David Knowles No preview available - 2004 |
The Monastic Order in England: A History of Its Development from the Times ... David Knowles No preview available - 1963 |
Common terms and phrases
abbatial abbey abbot Abingd Abingdon Aelfric Aethelwig Ailred Anselm appointed archbishop became Bernard bishop black monks Bury canons Canterbury cathedral monasteries celebrated chant chapter Christ Church Chron Chronicle Cistercian Citeaux Clairvaux cloister Cluniac Cluny Concordia Conquest contemporary death Dunstan Durham Eadmer early ecclesiastical election England English Ethelwold Evesh Evesham existed feast feudal foundation Fountains GASA Gerald of Wales Gervase Glastonbury Gregory Henry Hist Hubert Walter Hugh ibid influence Jocelini Cronica king land Lanfranc later letter liturgical Malmesb Malmesbury Marleberge medieval Minster monachi monasteries monastic monasticism Monasticon Norman original papal period Peterborough prior probably quod Ramsey reform regular reign religious Richard Rievaulx Rome royal Rule saint secular seqq spiritual St Albans St Augustine's St Benedict Statuta Symeon Symeon of Durham Thurstan tradition twelfth century Vita Walter white monks wholly William William of Malmesbury Winchester Worcester Wulfstan York