The Monastic Order in England : A History of its Development from the Times of St Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council 940–1216

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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.