Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500
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WOMAN UNDER MONASTICISM.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ERRATA.
CHAPTER I.
§ 1. The Borderland of Heathendom and Christianity.
§ 2. The Tribal Goddess as a Christian Saint.
§ 3. Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint.
CHAPTER II.
§ 1. At the Frankish Invasion[140].
§ 2. St Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers.
§ 3. The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers[201]. Convent Life in the North.
CHAPTER III.
§ 1. Early Houses in Kent.
§ 2. The Monastery at Whitby[258].
§ 3. Ely and the influence of Bishop Wilfrith.
§ 4. Houses in Mercia and in the South.
CHAPTER IV.
§ 1. The Women corresponding with Boniface.
§ 2. Anglo-Saxon Nuns abroad.
CHAPTER V.
§ 1. Women’s Convents in Saxony.
§ 2. Early History of Gandersheim[463].
§ 3. The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings[476].
CHAPTER VI.
§ 1. The new Monastic Orders.
§ 2. Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century.
§ 3. The Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham[590].
CHAPTER VII.
§ 1. Art Industries generally.
§ 2. Herrad and the ‘Garden of Delights.’
CHAPTER VIII.
§ 1. St Hildegard of Bingen[672] and St Elisabeth of Schönau[673].
§ 2. Women-Saints connected with Charity and Philanthropy.
CHAPTER IX.
§ 1. Mystic writings for women in England.
§ 2. The Convent of Helfta and its Literary Nuns[809].
CHAPTER X.
§ 1. The External Relations of the Convent.
§ 2. The Internal Arrangements of the Convent.
§ 3. The Foundation and Internal Arrangements of Sion[951].
CHAPTER XI.
§ 1. Visitations of Nunneries in England.
§ 2. Reforms in Germany.
CHAPTER XII.
§ 1. The Dissolution in England.
§ 2. The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer.
CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX
INDEX.
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