Dom david knowles biography

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Michael David Knowles OSB FRHistS was an English Benedictine monk, Catholic priest, and historian, who became Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1954 to 1963.

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David Knowles (scholar)

English Benedictine monk and historian

Michael David KnowlesOSBFRHistS (born Michael Clive Knowles, 29 September 1896 – 21 November 1974) was an English Benedictinemonk, Catholic priest, and historian, who became Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1954 to 1963.

Biography

Born Michael Clive Knowles on 29 September 1896 in Studley, Warwickshire, England, Knowles was educated at Downside School, run by the monks of Downside Abbey, and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took a first in both philosophy and classics.^[2]

Monk

In July 1914 Knowles finished at Downside School and immediately moved into the monastery. He was clothed in the September and became a member of the monastic community, being given the religious name of David, by which he was always known thereafter. After completing the novitiate he was sent by the abbot to the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome for his theological studies. Returning to Downside, he was ordained a priest in 1922. His research into the ea

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Keeping the Rule. David Knowles and the Writing of History

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Dom David Knowles was a monk of Downside Abbey and Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. He was one of the most influential historians of his time and his writings on the Medieval Church, especially on the monastic and religious orders, were deeply influential as well as beautifully crafted.

This book contains the texts of a selection of the David Knowles memorial lectures given at Downside Abbey in the years following the fiftieth anniversary of the completion of the Religious Orders in 2009.

Delivered by some of the leading historians of the present day they show Knowles’ continuing influence and the way in which his personality and career shaped his historical writings. They provide a fresh insight into a deeply significant historian.

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Knowles, David

English monk, historian; b. on the feast of St. Michael, Sept. 29, 1896 at Eastfield, Studley, in Warwickshire; d. Nov. 21, 1974 in Chichester. Christened Michael Clive, he received the name David as a Benedictine. Knowles' scholarly reputation rests principally on his work as a historian of pre-Reformation English monasticism; his opus magnum is The Monastic Order in England; a History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 943–1216 (Cambridge 1940; 2d ed., 1963). The 3-volume The Religious Orders in England (Cambridge 1956, 1957, 1959) completed his history of the religious orders in England up to and inclusive of the Reformation; this work is not of the same exceptional stature as his Monastic Order.

Knowles was educated in the school at downside abbey where he became a novice in 1914 and where he pronounced simple vows in 1915 and solemn vows in 1918. From 1919 to 1922 he studied classical languages and philosophy at Cambridge as a member of Christ's College. He was ordained a priest on July 9, 1922. Dur