- 1Title page
- 2Preface
- 3Errata
- 4Chapter I — Introductory — § 1 — The Borderland of Heathendom and C…
- 5§ 2 — The Tribal Goddess as a Christian Saint
- 6§ 3 — Further Peculiarities of This Type of Saint
- 7Chapter II — Convents Among the Franks, A.D. 550-650
- 8§ 1 — At the Frankish Invasion
- 9§ 2 — St Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers
- 10§ 3 — The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers. Convent Life in the North
- 11§ 1 — Early Houses in Kent
- 12§ 2 — The Monastery at Whitby
- 13§ 3 — Ely and the Influence of Bishop Wilfrith
- 14§ 4 — Houses in Mercia and in the South
- 15§ 1 — The Women Corresponding With Boniface
- 16§ 2 — Anglo-Saxon Nuns Abroad
- 17§ 1 — Women’s Convents in Saxony
- 18§ 2 — Early History of Gandersheim
- 19§ 3 — The Nun Hrotsvith and Her Writings
- 20Chapter VI — The Monastic Revival of the Middle Ages
- 21§ 1 — The New Monastic Orders
- 22§ 2 — Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century
- 23§ 3 — The Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham
- 24Chapter VII — Art Industries in the Nunnery — § 1 — Art Industries…
- 25§ 2 — Herrad and the ‘Garden of Delights’
- 26Chapter VIII — Prophecy and Philanthropy
- 27§ 1 — St Hildegard of Bingen and St Elisabeth of Schönau
- 28§ 2 — Women-Saints Connected With Charity and Philanthropy
- 29Chapter IX — Early Mystic Literature — § 1 — Mystic Writings for Wo…
- 30§ 2 — The Convent of Helfta and Its Literary Nuns
- 31Chapter X — Some Aspects of the Convent in England During the Later…
- 32§ 1 — The External Relations of the Convent
- 33§ 2 — The Internal Arrangements of the Convent
- 34§ 3 — The Foundation and Internal Arrangements of Sion
- 35Chapter XI — Monastic Reform Previous to the Reformation
- 36§ 1 — Visitations of Nunneries in England
- 37§ 2 — Reforms in Germany
- 38Chapter XII — The Dissolution
- 39§ 1 — The Dissolution in England
- 40§ 2 — The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer
- 41Conclusion
- 42Appendix
Woman under Monasticism
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