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Religious Orders Vol 1

David Knowles author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Sep '79

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This is the first of a series of volumes which have become recognised as one of the great monuments of English historical scholarship. The late Dom David Knowles began work on the subject in 1929; The Monastic Order in England appeared in 1948, 1955 and 1959. This volume begins the account of a whole way of Christian life and a unique element of English civilisation, from Anglo-Saxon times to the mid-sixteenth century. It opens with a survey of monastic life and activities of the old orders to 1340; goes on to record the impact of the Friars, and concludes with a general survey of the monasteries and their world.

ISBN: 9780521295666

Dimensions: 230mm x 154mm x 23mm

Weight: 540g

368 pages