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The religious orders in England.
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ISBN: 052105480X 0521054818 0521054826 0521295661 052129567X 0521295688 9780521054805 9780521295666 9780511561184 0511561180 0511561199 0511560664 9780521295680 9780521295673 9780521054829 9780521054812 9780511561191 9780511560668 Year: 1959 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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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