Publisher, Cambridge University Press, 1950
Hardback with Dust jacket, bound in black/dark blue book cloth, pp. 764
Condition, Used – Good, a tight binding with some signs of shelf life, Free of notes and highlights. Dust Jacket in protective sleeve.

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.