Religious Orders Vol 1
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.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. The Old Orders, 1216–1340:
- 1. The thirteenth century
- 2. Reorganization among the Black Monks, 1216–1336
- 3. The Augustinian chapters, 1216–1339
- 4. The exploitation of the land
- 5. Henry of Eastry
- 6. The monastic administration
- 7. The agrarian economi of the Cistercians
- 8. The system of visitation
- 9. The first century of visitation: (I)
- 10. The first century of visitation: (II)
- Part II. The Friars, 1216–1340:
- 11. The friars minor
- 12. The coming of the minors
- 13. The order of preachers
- 14. The preachers in England
- 15. The evolution of the Franciscan ideal
- 16. The apostolic work of the friars
- 17. Carmelites, Austin Hermits and lesser orders
- 18. The early English Franciscan scholastics
- 19. Doctrinal and moral controversies: Kilwardby and Pecham
- 20. The friars from the Council of Lyons to William of Ockham (1272–1340)
- Part III. The Monasteries and their World:
- 21. The cathedral monasteries
- 22. The monastic boroughs
- 23. The abbot
- 24. The daily life of the monastery
- 25. Intellectual life - history, art and music
- 26. Monastic England, 1216–1340
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
