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The monastic order in England: a history of its development from the times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216

David Knowles 1976 © Cambridge University Press
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  • ATLA Special Series
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  • European: 400-1400
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Glastonbury from the Air (page II)
  • Preface to the Second Edition (page xv)
  • Preface to the First Edition (page xvii)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xxii)
  • Part One. Historical (page 1)
  • Section I. Introductory (page 3)
    • Chapter I. The Rule of Saint Benedict (page 3)
    • Chapter II. The Monastic Order between the Death of Saint Benedict and the Times of Saint Dunstan (page 16)
  • Section II. 940-1066 (page 31)
    • Chapter III. The Monastic Revival under Dunstan and King Edgar: The Regularis Concordia (page 31)
    • Chapter IV. English Monasticism between Dunstan and the Conquest (page 57)
  • Section III. 1066-1100 (page 83)
    • Chapter V. The Norman Monasticism (page 83)
    • Chapter VI. The Norman Plantation (page 100)
    • Chapter VII. The Development of the Religious Life between I066 and II00 (page 128)
    • Chapter VIII. The Cluniacs in England (page 145)
    • Chapter IX. Worcester, Evesham and the Northern Revival (page 159)
  • Section IV. 1100-1135 (page 172)
    • Chapter X. The English Monasteries under Henry I (page 172)
  • Section V. 1135-1175 (page 191)
    • Chapter XI. The New Orders (page 191)
    • Chapter XII. The New Model of Citeaux (page 208)
    • Chapter XIII. The Cistercians in England: I. The First Foundations (page 227)
    • Chapter XIV. The Cistercians in England: II. The Period of Expansion (page 246)
    • Chapter XV. The Black Monks between 1135 and 1175 (page 267)
    • Chapter XVI. Cluniac Influence: Henry of Blois and Gilbert Foliot (page 280)
  • Section VI. 1175-1216 (page 299)
    • Chapter XVII. The Black Monks from 1175 to 1216 (page 299)
    • Chapter XVIII. The Hostility of the Bishops towards the Black Monks (page 313)
    • Chapter XIX. The Case of Evesham (page 331)
    • Chapter XX. The Cistercians from 1153 to 1216 (page 346)
    • Chapter XXI. The reign of John and the Fourth Lateran Council, 1199-1216 (page 363)
    • Chapter XXII. The Charterhouse of Witham and Hugh of Avalon (page 375)
  • Part Two. Institutional (page 393)
  • Section I. The Interior Polity of the Black Monks (page 395)
    • Chapter XXIII. The Office of Abbot (page 395)
    • Chapter XXIV. The Internal Government and Personnel of the Monastery (page 411)
    • Chapter XXV. The Administration of the Monastery (page pagenumber)
  • Section II. The Work and Influence of the Monks (page 448)
    • Chapter XXVI. The Daily Life of the Monastery (page 448)
    • Chapter XXVII. Unions and Confraternity: Hospitality and Charity (page 472)
    • Chapter XXVIII. The Intellectual Activities of the Black Monks: I. Educational and Literary (page 487)
    • Chapter XXIX. The Intellectual Activities of the Black Monks: II. Theology, Canon Law, Medicine, Monastic Libraries (page 509)
    • Chapter XXX. The Illumination of Manuscripts and Monastic Craft Work (page 528)
    • Chapter XXXI. The Liturgy and the Chant (page 539)
  • Section III. The External Relations of the Monastery (page 561)
    • Chapter XXXII. The Place of the Monastery in the Fabric of the Church and of Society (page 561)
    • Chapter XXXIII. The Origins and Development of Exemption in England (page 575)
    • Chapter XXXIV. The Monastic Churches (page 592)
    • Chapter XXXV. The Monasteries and the Feudal System (page 607)
    • Chapter XXXVI. The Cathedral Monasteries and the Bishops' Abbeys (page 619)
  • Section IV. The White Monks (page 632)
    • Chapter XXXVII. The Institutions of the White Monks (page 632)
    • Chapter XXXVIII. The Maintenance of Discipline (page 649)
    • Chapter XXXIX. The Critics of the Monks (page 662)
    • Chapter XL. Review of the Period 940-1216 (page 679)
  • Appendices (page 695)
  • Bibliography (page 727)
  • Additional Bibliography (page 745)
  • Additional Notes (page 749)
  • Index (page 761)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SP 39.3 (Jul. 1964): 545 http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/viewitem/00387134/di952037/95p0320q
SP 17.2 (Apr. 1942): 291-296 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28194204%2917%3A2%3C291%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
AHR 47.1 (Oct. 1941): 99-101 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28194110%2947%3A1%3C99%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
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