Woman Under Monasticism

About this eBook

Author

Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931

Title

Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements

Subject

Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42708

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42708

Release Date

May 13, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WOMAN UNDER MONASTICISM.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ERRATA.
5. 5.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.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — § 1. The Women corresponding with Boniface. — § 2. Anglo-Saxon Nuns abroad.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — § 1. Women’s Convents in Saxony. — § 2. Early History of Gandersheim [463] . — § 3. The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings [476] .
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — § 1. The new Monastic Orders. — § 2. Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century. — § 3. The Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham [590] .
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — § 1. Art Industries generally. — § 2. Herrad and the ‘Garden of Delights.’
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — § 1. St Hildegard of Bingen [672] and St Elisabeth of Schönau [673] . — § 2. Women-Saints connected with Charity and Philanthropy.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — § 1. Mystic writings for women in England. — § 2. The Convent of Helfta and its Literary Nuns [809] .
14. 14.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] .
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — § 1. Visitations of Nunneries in England. — § 2. Reforms in Germany.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — § 1. The Dissolution in England. — § 2. The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer.
17. 17.CONCLUSION.
18. 18.APPENDIX
19. 19.INDEX.

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