The Religious Orders In England - Vol II: The End Of The Middle Ages by David Knowles

Reprint of the 1961 original. 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.

Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780521054812
Condition:	Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy; Price clipped. Minimal foxing.

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SKU: 1587805
Location: Religion