The Religious Orders in England, Volume 2This book covers a period (1336-1485) neglected by historians, when many features of the modern world were germinating under the surface of medieval institutions: the age of Chaucer, Langland, Bradwardine and Wyclif, of the new Nominalism and the Conciliar Movement. David Knowles devotes part of his book to narrative, and part to analysis. The great abbeys are at their height of outward splendour, we see the building schemes of Ely and Glouster, the impact of the Black Death, and the recovery from it; we see the monks and friars in controversy at Oxford, the attacks of Wyclif and the Lollards, helped by the satire of the poets; the conservative reaction, and the foundations and reforms of Henry V, followed by the Indian summer of the feudal aristocracy. |
Contents
The opening of the period | 3 |
Monks and canons at the university 130c1450 | 14 |
Ely and Gloucester | 29 |
Portraits of monks | 39 |
Monks and friars in controversy | 61 |
Ockhamism justification | 74 |
Criticism of the religious in the fourteenth century | 90 |
The spiritual life of the fourteenth century | 115 |
Recruitment employment and the horarium | 229 |
The wagesystem and the common life | 240 |
The election and privileges of the superior | 248 |
The monasteries and society | 280 |
Vicarages the cure of souls and schools | 288 |
Public obligations of heads of houses | 298 |
The monastic economy 13201480 | 309 |
Monastic Libraries | 331 |
II | 144 |
The fortunes of the Cluniac houses and the alien priories | 157 |
King Henry V | 175 |
More portraits of monks | 185 |
The second century of visitation 13501450 | 204 |
The spiritual life of the fifteenth century | 219 |
Retrospect | 354 |
Chaucers monk | 365 |
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