ENGLISH

Religious Orders Vol 2

By David Knowles

Book information

Year
1979
ISBN
0521054818, 9780521054812, 052129567X, 9780521295673
Open Library ID
OL21497626M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18709937 bytes)
Pages
424\419
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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