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Woman under monasticism: chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500

UW-Madison TEI edition, March 3, 2003

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Eckenstein, Lina, d. 1931
Woman under monasticism: chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500
Cambridge: University Press, 1896
xv, 496 p.

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Contents

[Title Page]

[Title Page]

[dedication]

[preface]

[contents]

[errata]

INTRODUCTORY.

The Borderland of Heathendom and Christianity.

The Tribal Goddess as a Christian Saint.

Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint.

CONVENTS AMONG THE FRANKS, A.D. 550--650.

At the Frankish Invasion.

St Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers

The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers. Convent Life in the North.

CONVENTS AMONG THE ANGLO-SAXONS, A. D. 630-730.

Early Houses in Kent.

The Monastery at Whitby

Ely and the influence of Bishop Wilfrith.

Houses in Mercia and in the South.

ANGLO-SAXON NUNS IN CONNECTION WITH BONIFACE.

The Women corresponding with Boniface.

Anglo-Saxon Nuns abroad.

CONVENTS IN SAXON LANDS BETWEEN A.D. 800--1000.

Women's Convents in Saxony.

Early History of Gandersheim.

The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings.

THE MONASTIC REVIVAL OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

The new Monastic Orders.

Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century.

The Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham.

ART INDUSTRIES IN THE NUNNERY.

Art Industries generally.

Herrad and the 'Garden of Delights.'

PROPHECY AND PHILANTHROPY.

St Hildegard of Bingen and St Elisabeth of Schönau.

Women-Saints connected with Charity and Philanthropy.

EARLY MYSTIC LITERATURE.

Mystic writings for women in England.

The Convent of Helfta and its Literary Nuns.

SOME ASPECTS OF THE CONVENT IN ENGLAND DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AGES.

The External Relations of the Convent.

The Internal Arrangements of the Convent.

The Foundation and Internal Arrangements of Sion.

MONASTIC REFORM PREVIOUS TO THE REFORMATION.

Visitations of Nunneries in England.

Reforms in Germany.

THE DISSOLUTION.

The Dissolution in England.

The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer.

[conclusion]

[appendix]

[index]

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