Religious Orders Vol 2

by David Knowles

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052129567X
• ISBN13: 9780521295673
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"