canons

• “(By the term canons we designate those rules which the holy Fathers have laid down, in which it has been written how canons (canonici), i.e. regular clerics, ought to live).”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “(Please note when I use the term canons of Western Culture I am referring to the philosophical underpinning of our society, which were articulated by Harold Bloom and Mortimer Adler and others of the University of Chicago”

  Op For

• “The most straightforward of all canons is the round ....”

  12.03

• “Nor do my masters (so he called his canons) break and destroy a quiet that knows no dissent, for they think me gentle and mild.”

  Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England

• “The various lists and bibliographies that have been mistakenly called canons, I tried to show, are arbitrary; they are selections without a larger principle; they are founded not on a distinction but on convenience.”

  The spirit of party in criticism

• “Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not been, to my opinion, a more radical, yet subtle attack towards, what we call, the Western canon [1], also known as the canons of Dead White European Males [2], whose accepted practices are characterized primarily by an ongoing establishment of knowledge hierarchies - serious rankings of what counts and what does not according to pre-established sets of standards.”

  THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNET AND VIRTUAL WORLDS ON WRITTEN TEXT AND THEATRE

• “But in practice, the so-called canons are ill-defined, and Specific canons 'are often countered ... by some maxim pointing in a different direction.”

  "It is better to receive than to give... at least when the subject is guns."

• “There were no monastic buildings: Lincoln Cathedral was not run by monks, but by priests called canons, who lived in ordinary town houses near the church.”

  The Pillars of the Earth

• “A staff of clergy was formed who came to be called canons; other endowments by degrees added; the services at St. Paul's maintained as”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch

• “Church were known as canons, and, of several codes of canon law which had been prepared, that of a monk named Gratian, compiled in the twelfth century, was the most widely used.”

  A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

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