Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
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Page 23, note 1, date of St Ida in A. SS. Boll. should be _Sept. 4_ instead of _June 20_. " 26, line 7, read _tilth_ instead of _silk_. " 162, " 21, read _Martianus_ instead of...
13. CHAPTER I.In order to gain an insight into the causes of the rapid development of monasticism among the German races, it is necessary to enquire into the social arrangements of the period...
14. CHAPTER II.‘Sicut enim apis diversa genera florum congregabat, unde mella conficiat, sic illa ab his quos invitabat spirituales studebat carpere flosculos, unde boni operis fructum tam sib...
15. CHAPTER III.The early history of the convent life of women in Anglo-Saxon England is chiefly an account of foundations. Information on the establishment of religious settlements founded and...
16. CHAPTER IV.In the course of the 6th and 7th centuries a number of men left England and settled abroad among the heathen Germans, partly from a wish to gain new converts to the faith, partl...
17. letter fifty gold coins (solidi) and an altar cloth, better gifts I cannotBugga does not style herself abbess, but Boniface addresses her as such in acknowledging the receipt of her gifts and advising her about going to Rome. On another occasion he wr...
18. CHAPTER V.Some account has been given in the preceding chapters of the form which monastic settlements of women took among the Franks and the Anglo-Saxons during the first centuries after...
19. CHAPTER VI.‘Pulchritudo certe mentis et nutrimentum virtutum est cordis munditia, cui visio Dei spiritualiter promittitur; ad quam munditiam nullus nisi per magnam cordis custodiam perduci...
20. CHAPTER VII.From consideration of the nuns of different orders we turn to enquire more closely into the general occupations and productive capacities of nuns during early Christian times an...
21. CHAPTER VIII.From the peaceful pursuits of mediaeval nuns we turn to some of the women who were interested in the problems of the day, and whose minds were agitated by current difficulties w...
22. CHAPTER IX.The last chapter, in dealing with some of the women who distinguished themselves in the cause of charity and philanthropy, has suggested in what direction the determining featur...
23. CHAPTER X.‘All that wons in religioun aw to haue sum ocupacioun, outher in kirk or hali bedes, or stodying in oder stedes; ffor ydilnes, os sais sant paul es grete enmy unto the soul.’ _R...
24. CHAPTER XI.‘For sum (nunnes) bene devowte, holy, and towarde, And holden the ryght way to blysse; And sum bene feble, lewde, and frowarde, Now god amend that ys amys!’ (_From_ ‘_Why I cann...
25. CHAPTER XII.‘In church, chapell and priory Abby, hospitall and nunry, Sparing nother man nor woman, Coopes, albes, holy ornamentes, Crosses, chalecys, sensurs and rentes, Convertyng all to...