CHAPTER VI. EDUCATION

The education of the nuns: Learning of Anglo-Saxon nuns, and of German nuns at a later date 237 Little learning in English nunneries during the later middle ages 238 Nunnery libraries and nuns' books 240 Education of nuns 244 Latin in nunneries 246 Translations for the use of nuns 251 Needlework 255 Simple forms of medicine 258

Nunneries as schools for children: The education of novices 260 The education of secular children 261 Boys 263 Limitations: (1) not all nunneries took children 264 (2) only gentlefolk taken 265 (3) disapproval and restriction of nunnery schools by the ecclesiastical authorities 270 What did the nuns teach? 274 Life of school children in nunneries 279 'Piety and breeding' 281