The Religious Orders in England

by Michael David Knowles and Dom David Knowles

This volume opens with a survey of monastic life and activities in the early Tudor period, which throws new light on the fortunes of the Cistercian abbeys and on the influence upon the monks of the new humanist education. Chapters are devoted to Bishop Redman's visitations of the white canons, to the rural pursuits of Prior More of Worcester, to the friars ranged for and against the New Learning, and to the Carthusians; there are also a number of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521054826
• ISBN13: 9780521054829
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.