A biography designed to celebrate the memory of historian and monk Father David Knowles while those who knew him well are still alive. Its authors were all his friends, and in some sense his disciples and pupils.
Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke CBE FBA FSA was a British medieval historian.
From 1974 to 1994 he was Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge. He was married to fellow medievalist, Rosalind B. Brooke.
Brooke was the son of medieval historian Zachary Nugent Brooke (1 December 1883 – 7 October 1946).