Download or read book The Monastic Order in England written by David Knowles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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.