Knowles, David 1896-1974

The evolution of medieval thought by David Knowles ( Book )
74 editions published between 1962 and 1999 in English and held by 2,191 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, I, 940-1216 ( )
17 editions published between 2001 and 2009 in English and held by 1,399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The religious orders in England by David Knowles ( Book )
59 editions published between 1948 and 1979 in English and Multiple languages and held by 1,383 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thomas Becket by David Knowles ( Book )
21 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,311 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

Saints and scholars; twenty-five medieval portraits by David Knowles ( Book )
30 editions published between 1092 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The English mystical tradition by David Knowles ( Book )
24 editions published between 1960 and 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,046 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, 940-1216 by David Knowles ( Book )
46 editions published between 1940 and 2005 in English and held by 1,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Christian monasticism by David Knowles ( Book )
11 editions published between 1969 and 1977 in English and held by 990 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Medieval religious houses: Ireland: with an appendix to early sites by David Knowles ( Book )
40 editions published between 1951 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Middle Ages by David Knowles ( Book )
18 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in English and held by 726 WorldCat member libraries worldwide