Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500
Lina Eckenstein
Jan 1896 · University Press
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Chapter 1. Introduction. Section 1: The Borderland Heathendom and Christianity; Section 2: The Tribal goddess as a Christian Saint; Section 3: Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint -- Chapter 2. Covents Among the Franks, A.D. 550-650. Section 1: At the Franish Invasion; Section 2: St. Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers; Section 3: The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers, Covent Life in the North -- Chapter 3. Convents Among the Anglo-Saxon, A.D. 630-730. Section 1: Early Houses of Kent; Section 2: The Monastery at Whitby; Section 3: Ely and the Influence of Bishop Wilfrith; Section 4: Houses in Mercia and in the South -- Chapter 4. Anglo-Saxon Nuns in Connection with Boniface. Section 1: The Women Corresponding with Boniface; Section 2: Anglo-Saxon Nuns Abroad -- Chapter 5. Convents in Saxon Lands Between A.D. 800-1000. Section 1: Women's Convents in Saxony; Section 2: Early History of Gandersheim; Section 3: The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings -- Chapter 6. The Monastic Revival of the Middle Ages. Section 1: The New Monastic Orders; Section 2: Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century; Section 3: The Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham -- Chapter 7. Art Industries in the Nunery. Section 1: Art industires Generaly; Section 2: Herrad and the Garden of Delights -- Chapter 8. Prophecy and Philanthropy. Section 1. St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. Elisabeth of Schonau; Section 2: Charity and Philanthropy -- Chapter 9. Early Mystic Literature. Section 1: Mystic Writings for Women in England; Section 2: The convent of Helfta and its Literay Nuns -- Chapter 10. Some Aspects of the Convent in England During the Later Middle Ages. Section 1: The External Relations of the Convent; Section 2: The Internal Arrangements of the Convent; Section 3: the Foundation and Internal Arrangements of Sion -- Chapter 11. Monastic Reform Previous to the Reformation. Section 1: Visitations of Nunneries in England; Section 2: Reforms in Germany -- Chapter 12. The dissolution. Section 1: The Dissolution in England; Section 2: The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer -- Conclusion.
Chapter 1. Introduction. Section 1: The Borderland Heathendom and Christianity; Section 2: The Tribal goddess as a Christian Saint; Section 3: Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint -- Chapter 2. Covents Among the Franks, A.D. 550-650. Section 1: At the Franish Invasion; Section 2: St. Radeg...
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