Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500University Press, 1896 - 496 sivua Ch. 1 Introduction\Section 1: The Borderland Heathendom and Christianity\Section 2: The Tribal goddess as a Christian Saint\Section 3: Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint\Ch. 2 Covents Among the Franks, A.D. 550-650\Section 1: At the Franish Invasion\Section 2: St. Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers\Section 3: The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers, Covent Life in the North\Ch. 3 Convents Among the Anglo-Saxon, A.D. 630-730\Section 1: Early Houses of Kent\Section 2: The Monastery at Whitby\Section 3: Ely and the Influence of Bishop Wilfrith\Section 4: Houses in Mercia and in the South\Ch. 4 Anglo-Saxon Nuns in Connection with Boniface\Section 1 : The Women Corresponding with Boniface\Section 2: Anglo-Saxon Nuns Abroad\Ch.5 Convents in Saxon Lands Between A.D. 800-1000\Section 1: Women's Convents in Saxony\Section 2: Early History of Gandersheim\Section 3: The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings.\Ch. 6 The Monastic Revival of the Middle Ages\Section 1: The New Monastic Orders\Section 2: Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century\Section 3: The Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham\Ch. 7 Art Industries in the Nunery\Section 1: Art industires Generaly\Section 2: Herrad and the Garden of Delights\Ch. 8 Prophecy and Philanthropy\Section 1. St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. Elisabeth of Schonau\Section 2: Charity and Philanthropy\Ch. 9 Early Mystic Literature\Section 1: Mystic Writings for Women in England\Section 2: The convent of Helfta and its Literay Nuns.\Ch. 10 Some Aspects of the Convent in England During the Later Middle Ages\Section 1: The External Relations of the Convent\Section 2: The Internal Arrangements of the Convent\Section 3: the Foundation and Internal Arrangements of Sion\Ch. 11 Monastic Reform Previous to the Reformation\Section 1: Visitations of Nunneries in England\Section 2: Reforms in Germany\Ch. 12 The dissolution\Section 1: The Dissolution in England\Section 2: The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer\Conclusion. |
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Sivu 133 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher ? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?
Sivu 450 - Forasmuch as manifest sin, vicious, carnal and abominable living, is daily used and committed amongst the little and small abbeys, priories and other religious houses of monks, canons and nuns...
Sivu 457 - It is a lamentable thing to see a legion of monks and nuns, who have been chased from their monasteries, wandering miserably hither and thither seeking means to live; and several honest men have told me that, what with monks, nuns and persons dependent on the monasteries suppressed, there were over 20,000 who knew not how to live.* Everywhere throughout the country the same scenes were being enacted.
Sivu 367 - And sikerly she was of grete disport, And ful plesant, and amiable of port, And peined hire to contrefeten chere Of court, and ben estatelich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence.
Sivu 336 - May the desire come unto thee to draw Near to this river's bank,' I said to her, ' So much that I may hear what thou art singing. Thou makest me remember where and what Proserpina that moment was when lost Her mother her, and she herself the Spring.
Sivu 463 - In the convents, the female portion of the population found their only teachers, the rich, as well as the poor,* and the destruction of these' religious houses by Henry was the absolute extinction of any systematic education for women during a long period.
Sivu 463 - Nunneries also," he observes, "were good She-Schools, wherein the girls and maids of the neighborhood were taught to read and work; and sometimes a little Latin was taught them therein. Yea, give me leave to say, if such feminine foundations had still continued, provided no vow were obtruded upon them . . . haply the weaker sex (beside the avoiding modern inconveniences) might be heightened to a higher perfection than hitherto hath been attained.
Sivu 450 - ... to the high displeasure of Almighty God, slander of good religion, and to the great infamy of the king's highness and the realm, if redress should not be had thereof...
Sivu 137 - Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.