Knowles, David 1896-1974

Overview

Works:	310 works in 1,729 publications in 9 languages and 25,481 library holdings
Genres:	History Biography Rules Sources Church history Registers (Lists) Lectures Records and correspondence Constitution Juvenile works
Roles:	Author, Publishing director, Editor, Other, Translator, Author of introduction, Contributor, Director, Creator
Classifications:	BX2592, 271.00942

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about David Knowles

Church society and politics : papers read at the thirteenth summer meeting and the fourteenth winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society by Ecclesiastical History Society( Book )
David Knowles remembered by Christopher Brooke( Book )
David Knowles : a memoir by Adrian Morey( Book )
Abandonment to divine providence by Jean Pierre de Caussade( Book )
Keeping the rule : David Knowles and the writing of history( Book )

David Knowles, 1896-1974 by Christopher Brooke( )
Reptiles of Australia by Steve Wilson( )
Papers by Kenneth Clark( )

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Most widely held works by David Knowles

The evolution of medieval thought by David Knowles( Book )

106 editions published between 1962 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 2,209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"One of the many merits of this book is that it places Western scholasticism in its setting--and this both in space and in time. Plotinus lives on, Aristotle comes back to life again, Averroes breaks in--but this is not the right word, for this Muslim philosopher and his Western Christian disciples are inmates of the same house. Professor Knowles brings out the unity of Islamic and Western Christian culture. Medieval Islam and Western Christendom had a common mental heritage of Jewish religion and Greek philosophy; both were stimulated intellectually by a tension between the Judaic and the Hellenic pole of their thought; and the same stimulus led thinkers in both provinces of this Judaistic-Hellenistic Christian-Muslim world to interest themselves in the same problems."--In The Observer (London)

The heads of religious houses, England and Wales by David M Smith( )

38 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in English and French and held by 2,188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the first of two volumes, now covering the heads of religious houses in England and Wales from the tenth-century reform to the death of Edward III, 940-1377. This first volume, by the great master of monastic history, Dom David Knowles, aided by Christopher Brooke and Vera London, was published first in 1972 and was quickly recognised as a major work of reference, noted for its mastery of accurate detail. It has now been brought up to date with substantial addenda and corrigenda by Christopher Brooke. The 1972 volume covers the period 940-1216, and comprises fully documented, critical lists of monastic superiors, with succinct biographical details. It is an essential foundation for all prosopographical study of the religious history of the period; and the precise chronology that it underpins is invaluable for dating innumerable undated documents. As such, the book is a fundamental tool of medieval research

Thomas Becket by David Knowles( Book )

38 editions published between 1970 and 1980 in 4 languages and held by 1,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chronicles the life of twelfth-century archbishop Thomas of London whose heroic death led to his canonization as St. Thomas of Canterbury

The monastic order in England; a history of its development from the times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 by David Knowles( Book )

81 editions published between 1940 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Monastic Order in England by Dom David Knowles was originally published in 1940 and was quickly recognised as a scholarly classic and masterpiece of historical literature. It covers the period from about 940, when St Dunstan inaugurated the monastic reform by becoming abbot of Glastonbury, to the early thirteenth century. Its core is a marvellous narrative and detailed analysis of monasticism in twelfth-century England, brilliantly set in the continental background of all the monastic movements of the day - with a vivid evocation of Anselm, Ailred, Henry of Blois and a host of other central figures. Dom David himself brought this second edition up to date in 1963

Saints and scholars; twenty-five medieval portraits by David Knowles( Book )

46 editions published between 1092 and 2006 in English and held by 1,203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Christian monasticism by David Knowles( Book )

21 editions published between 1969 and 1977 in English and German and held by 1,098 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The religious orders in England by David Knowles( Book )

30 editions published between 1948 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 1,092 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The English mystical tradition by David Knowles( Book )

41 editions published between 1960 and 1965 in English and French and held by 1,083 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Medieval religious houses: England and Wales by David Knowles( Book )

45 editions published between 1951 and 1996 in English and held by 841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Middle Ages by David Knowles( Book )

22 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in English and held by 736 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Great historical enterprises. Problems in monastic history by David Knowles( Book )

28 editions published between 1960 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 715 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The monastic order in England; a history of its development from the times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran council, 943-1216 by David Knowles( Book )

42 editions published between 1940 and 1966 in English and held by 680 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The historian and character, and other essays by David Knowles, collected and presented to him by his friends, pupils and colleagues on the occasion of his retirement ... University of Cambridge by David Knowles( Book )

13 editions published between 1963 and 1964 in English and held by 623 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bare ruined choirs : the dissolution of the English monasteries by David Knowles( Book )

15 editions published between 1967 and 1977 in English and held by 610 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From Pachomius to Ignatius: a study in the constitutional history of the religious orders by David Knowles( Book )

20 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 580 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Episcopal colleagues of Archbishop Thomas Becket by David Knowles( Book )

29 editions published between 1951 and 2008 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The monastic constitutions of Lanfranc by Lanfranc( Book )

58 editions published between 1951 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, has long been recognized as one of the most important historical sources for medieval monastic life. In this major new revision of Dom David Knowles's classic editions of 1951 and 1967, Christopher N.L. Brooke incorporates the historical scholarship of the last generation to offer further insight into and illumination of Lanfranc and the monastic world of the eleventh century." "The Monastic Constitutions comprise a liturgical directory, a description of the functions of the leading officials of a monastery, and other fundamental regulations. Composed around 1077, they were intended for Lanfranc's own cathedral at Canterbury, for his nephew Paul's abbey of St Albans - and for any other houses which might observe them. The structure of life in a monastery of the traditional monasticism of the eleventh century has never been so clearly laid out as in this book, but the work also has its puzzles, which Christopher Brooke in this new edition seeks to elucidate."--Jacket

The nature of mysticism by David Knowles( Book )

6 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the last fifty years, mystical theology has become a common type of discussion and research, largely as a result of the developments in European schools of psychology. Most studies have concentrated their efforts on an empirical and existential interpretation of the mystical experience, rather than a spiritual one. The author takes a somewhat different approach in this book. The two main purposes of his study are to explain the nature of the mystical experience by showing what it has in common with the Christian theology of grace; and to show the similarity of the Christian and non-Christian mystical experiences

Monastic sites from the air by David Knowles( Book )

9 editions published between 1952 and 1981 in English and held by 399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The monastic constitutions by Lanfranc( Book )

5 editions published in 1951 in English and held by 337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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