CHAPTER X. THE WORLD IN THE CLOISTER

Visitors in the cloister are another side of the enclosure problem 394

The scholars of Oxford and Cambridge and the neighbouring nunneries 395

Regulations to govern the entrance of seculars into nunneries: (1) certain persons not to be admitted 401 (2) certain parts of the house and certain hours forbidden 402 (3) unsuccessful attempts to regulate the reception of boarders 409

The nuns and political movements 419

Robbery and violence 422

Border raids in Durham and Yorkshire 425

The strange tale of Sir John Arundel's outrage on a nunnery 429

The sack of Origny in _Raoul de Cambrai_ 432