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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of images; Publisher's acknowledgements; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Abbreviations used in the Notes; 1 THE CALL OF THE DESERT; The desert hermits; St Pachomius and the cenobitical life; St Basil; The desert tradition transmitted to the West; The first Western monks; 2 THE RULE OF ST BENEDICT; St Benedict and his biographer; The Rule and its sources; The monk's profession according to the Rule; The monk's life according to the Rule
3 WANDERING SAINTS AND PRINCELY PATRONSColumbanus in Gaul; Early Irish monasticism; Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility; The double monasteries of Gaul; The mixed rule in Gaul and Spain; 4 ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT; Roman and Celtic foundations; Wearmouth and Jarrow; The Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent; 5 THE EMPEROR AND THE RULE; The religious motives for endowment; Social convenience; Public policy; The Rule under imperial supervision; Collapse and dispersal; 6 THE AGE OF CLUNY; The rise of Cluny; The Cluniac empire; The Cluniac ideal; Gorze and the German revival
The English revival of the tenth century7 THE CLOISTER AND THE WORLD; The daily round; Monastic tasks and their distribution; Recruitment; The social and economic role; Feudal obligations; Lay patrons; Relations with bishops and secular clergy; The cloister and the schools; 8 MONASTIC REFORM: THE QUEST FOR THE PRIMITIVE; The orders of hermits; The Rule and the desert; The Carthusians; The canons regular; The Premonstratensians; 9 THE CISTERCIAN MODEL; The truth of the letter; Growth and recruitment; The constitution of the order; The general chapter; Criticism and dilution
10 THE NEW MONASTICISM VERSUS THE OLDSt Bernard and Peter the Venerable; Reformers and traditionalists; 11 A NEW KIND OF KNIGHTHOOD; The Templars; The Hospitallers; Decline and fall; 12 SISTERS OR HANDMAIDS; Frauenfrage
the question of the sisters; St Gilbert and the Order of Sempringham; The Cistercian nuns; A new experiment: the Beguines; 13 THE FRIARS; The social context; New evangelists; Franciscan origins; The Order of Preachers; The mission of the friars; Student orders; The complaint of the clergy; The place of the nuns; Other Mendicant Orders
14 EPILOGUE: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITYGlossary; A Cistercian abbey ground plan; Index
3 WANDERING SAINTS AND PRINCELY PATRONSColumbanus in Gaul; Early Irish monasticism; Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility; The double monasteries of Gaul; The mixed rule in Gaul and Spain; 4 ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT; Roman and Celtic foundations; Wearmouth and Jarrow; The Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent; 5 THE EMPEROR AND THE RULE; The religious motives for endowment; Social convenience; Public policy; The Rule under imperial supervision; Collapse and dispersal; 6 THE AGE OF CLUNY; The rise of Cluny; The Cluniac empire; The Cluniac ideal; Gorze and the German revival
The English revival of the tenth century7 THE CLOISTER AND THE WORLD; The daily round; Monastic tasks and their distribution; Recruitment; The social and economic role; Feudal obligations; Lay patrons; Relations with bishops and secular clergy; The cloister and the schools; 8 MONASTIC REFORM: THE QUEST FOR THE PRIMITIVE; The orders of hermits; The Rule and the desert; The Carthusians; The canons regular; The Premonstratensians; 9 THE CISTERCIAN MODEL; The truth of the letter; Growth and recruitment; The constitution of the order; The general chapter; Criticism and dilution
10 THE NEW MONASTICISM VERSUS THE OLDSt Bernard and Peter the Venerable; Reformers and traditionalists; 11 A NEW KIND OF KNIGHTHOOD; The Templars; The Hospitallers; Decline and fall; 12 SISTERS OR HANDMAIDS; Frauenfrage
the question of the sisters; St Gilbert and the Order of Sempringham; The Cistercian nuns; A new experiment: the Beguines; 13 THE FRIARS; The social context; New evangelists; Franciscan origins; The Order of Preachers; The mission of the friars; Student orders; The complaint of the clergy; The place of the nuns; Other Mendicant Orders
14 EPILOGUE: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITYGlossary; A Cistercian abbey ground plan; Index