Keeping the rule
Subtitle: David Knowles and the writing of history
By: edited by Dominic Bellenger and Simon Johnson
Publisher: Downside Abbey Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781898663553
Subjects: Church historians; Church history; Historiography; Monasticism and religious orders; History
Other titles: David Knowles and the writing of history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

A selection of the David Knowles lectures delivered at Downside Abbey between 2009 and 2012 (see Foreword, page 7).
Table of contents: title: The earliest English Benedictines? Monasticism in England before the conquest  -- Sarah Foot; title: Arcadia regained? David Knowles and the monastic order in England  -- Nicholas Vincent; title: After Knowles : new directions in monastic studies in England and Wales  -- Janet Burton; title: Knowles and the alien priories : a missed opportunity  -- Benjamin Thompson; title: The religious orders in England and the end of the Middle Ages  -- James G. Clark; title: The dissolution of the monasteries  -- G.W. Bernard; title: Knowles and the historians -- Michael Bentley.