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Dom David Knowles.
The Historian and Character, and Other Essays: Collected and presented to him by his friends and colleagues on the occasion of his retirement as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge U.P., 1963.
[No ISBN].
Hardback, stitch bound.
145x220x30mm.
xxix,388pp plus a monochrome frontispiece.
English; some Latin texts given as an appendix to the Uthred essay.
Ex-lib. Roehampton, fair to good condition: no dustjacket; some pencil marking in the margins of two of the essays.This item £16.50
682g.
Contents:
Curriculum vitae, by W. A. Pantin;
The historian & character;
Humanism of the 12th c.;
Bernard of Clairvaux;
Cistercians & Cluniacs - the controversy between St Bernard & Peter the Venerable;
St William of York;
Thomas Becket - a character study;
Censured opinions of Uthred of Boldon;
The last abbbot of Wigmore;
The monastic buildings of England;
Jean Mabillon;
Gasquet as an historian;
Edward Cuthbert Butler, 1858-1934.
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