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This is the first of a series of volumes which have become recognised as one of the great monuments of English historical scholarship. The late Dom David Knowles began work on the subject in 1929; The Monastic Order in England appeared in 1948, 1955 and 1959. This volume begins the account of a whole way of Christian life and a unique element of English civilisation, from Anglo-Saxon times to the mid-sixteenth century. It opens with a survey of monastic life and activities of the old orders to 1340; goes on to record the impact of the Friars, and concludes with a general survey of the monasteries and their world.

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• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Part I The Old Orders, 1216-1340
• 1 The thirteenth century
• 2 Reorganization among the Black Monks, 1216-1336
• 3 The Augustinian chapters, 1216-1339
• 4 The exploitation of the land
• 5 Henry of Eastry
• 6 The monastic administration
• 7 The agrarian economi of the Cistercians
• 8 The system of visitation
• 9 The first century of visitation: (I)
• 10 The first century of visitation: (II)
• Part II The Friars, 1216-1340
• 11 The friars minor
• 12 The coming of the minors
• 13 The order of preachers
• 14 The preachers in England
• 15 The evolution of the Franciscan ideal
• 16 The apostolic work of the friars
• 17 Carmelites, Austin Hermits and lesser orders
• 18 The early English Franciscan scholastics
• 19 Doctrinal and moral controversies: Kilwardby and Pecham
• 20 The friars from the Council of Lyons to William of Ockham (1272-1340)
• Part III The Monasteries and their World
• 21 The cathedral monasteries
• 22 The monastic boroughs
• 23 The abbot
• 24 The daily life of the monastery
• 25 Intellectual life - history, art and music
• 26 Monastic England, 1216-1340
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index