Religious Orders Vol 2
by David Knowles /
1979 / English / PDF
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This 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.
This 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.
