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

by Lina Eckenstein

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Errata
3. § 1. The Borderland of Heathendom and Christianity
4. § 2. The Tribal Goddess as a Christian Saint
5. § 3. Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint
6. Chapter II
7. § 1. At the Frankish Invasion
8. § 2. St Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers
9. § 3. The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers. Convent Life in the North
10. § 1. Early Houses in Kent
11. § 2. The Monastery at Whitby
12. § 3. Ely and the influence of Bishop Wilfrith
13. § 4. Houses in Mercia and in the South
14. § 1. The Women corresponding with Boniface
15. § 2. Anglo-Saxon Nuns abroad
16. § 1. Women’s Convents in Saxony
17. § 2. Early History of Gandersheim
18. § 3. The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings
19. § 1. The new Monastic Orders
20. § 2. Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century
21. § 3. The Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham
22. § 1. Art Industries generally
23. § 2. Herrad and the ‘Garden of Delights.’
24. § 1. St Hildegard of Bingen and St Elisabeth of Schönau
25. § 2. Women-Saints connected with Charity and Philanthropy
26. § 1. Mystic writings for women in England
27. § 2. The Convent of Helfta and its Literary Nuns
28. Chapter X
29. § 1. The External Relations of the Convent
30. § 2. The Internal Arrangements of the Convent
31. § 3. The Foundation and Internal Arrangements of Sion
32. Chapter XI
33. § 1. Visitations of Nunneries in England
34. § 2. Reforms in Germany
35. Chapter XII
36. § 1. The Dissolution in England
37. § 2. The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer
38. Conclusion
39. Appendix

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