{"product_id":"the-historian-and-character-and-other-essays-paperback-9780521088411","title":"The Historian and Character; And Other Essays (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521088411","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Historian and Character\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnd Other Essays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDom David Knowles (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521088411, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 October 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles was presented to him by his colleagues, friends and pupils on his retirement from the Regius Chair of Modern History at Cambridge in the summer of 1963. The collection opens with Dom David's Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor, 'The Historian and Character', which provides the unifying theme of the book: almost all the studies illustrate the author's interest in human problems and personalities as well as his concern with medieval monasticism and thought and with monastic historians of the modern world. In illustrating his scholarship and his main field of interest, this collection shows Dom David's unique capacity for revealing human personality and his skill in writing history that appeals to the general reader as well as to the historian.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrontispiece: Dom David Knowles, from a photograph by Edward Leigh\u003cbr\u003e Subscribers' dedication\u003cbr\u003e Editor's note\u003cbr\u003e Curriculum Vitae W. A. Pantin\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. The historian and character\u003cbr\u003e 2. The humanism of the twelfth century\u003cbr\u003e 3. St Bernard of Clairvaux: 1090–1153\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cistercians and Cluniacs: the controversy between St Bernard and Peter the Venerable\u003cbr\u003e 5. The case of St William of York\u003cbr\u003e 6. Archbishop Thomas Becket: a character study\u003cbr\u003e 7. The censured opinions of Uthred of Boldon\u003cbr\u003e 8. The last abbot of Wigmore\u003cbr\u003e 9. The monastic buildings of England\u003cbr\u003e 10. Jean Mabillon\u003cbr\u003e 11. Cardinal Gasquet as an historian\u003cbr\u003e 12. Edward Cuthbert Butler: 1858–1934\u003cbr\u003e A bibliography of the writings of Dom David Knowles\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46297209536792,"sku":"9780521088411","price":37.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-historian-and-character-and-other-essays-paperback-9780521088411","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}