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The Historian and Character : And Other Essays

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This 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780521088411
  • ISBN-10: 0521088410
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: October 2008
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.94 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.18 pounds
  • Page Count: 424

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