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THE ANTIQUARY'S BOOKS GENERAL EDITOR: J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A.
[Illustration: ST. BENEDICT PATRIARCH OF WESTERN MONKS]
BY ABBOT GASQUET O.S.B., D.D., PH.D., D.LITT., F.R.HIST.S.
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND PLANS
METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON 1904
CHAPTER II THE MATERIAL PARTS OF A MONASTERY 13
CHAPTER III THE MONASTERY AND ITS RULERS 37
CHAPTER V THE OBEDIENTIARIES (_continued_) 85
CHAPTER VI THE DAILY LIFE IN A MONASTERY 111
CHAPTER VII THE DAILY LIFE IN A MONASTERY (_continued_) 131
CHAPTER VIII THE NUNS OF MEDIÆVAL ENGLAND 154
CHAPTER IX EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS 180
CHAPTER X THE PAID SERVANTS OF THE MONASTERY 201
CHAPTER XI THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS ORDERS 213
The Cloisters, Worcester 18 J. Charles Wall.
The Refectory, Cleve Abbey 23 J. Charles Wall.
Thomas Ramryge, Abbot of St. Alban's (from brass) 43 J. Charles Wall.
Brother John of Walingford, Infirmarian of St. Alban's 87 (Cott. MSS., Jul. D. vii.)
Gloucester Cloisters, The Lavatory 102 J. Charles Wall.
Nun asking Pardon of an Abbess 179 (Roy. MSS., 2 B. vii., f. 219.)
[The figures representative of the various Religious Orders are reduced from Dugdale's _Monasticon_ (1655) and Stevens' _Continuation_ (1723).]
Benedictine Monk of the Cluniac Congregation 219
St. Benedict, Patriarch of Western Monks _Frontispiece_ From a painting by Sassoferrato at Perugia.
I. Norwich Cathedral, with Cloisters _To face page_ 14 J. Charles Wall.
II. Canons in Choir " 16 Cott. MSS., Dom. A. xvii. f. 11{ b}.
III. The Cloisters, Gloucester, showing Carrels " 20 From Murray's _Cathedrals_.
IV. The Chapter House, Westminster " 26 J. Charles Wall.
V. John Stoke, Abbot of St. Alban's; Prior Reymund, St. Alban's " 52 Cott. MSS., Nero D. iii., pp. 35, 49.
VI. Heading of Mortuary Roll, Thomas Brown, Bishop of Norwich, _d._ 1445 " 64 Cott. Charters, ii., 18.
VII. Adam the Cellarer, St. Alban's " 74 Cott. MSS., Nero D. iii., f. 16{ b}.
VIII. End of Mortuary Roll, Thomas Brown, Bishop of Norwich, _d._ 1445 " 94 Cott. Charters, ii., 18.
IX. Franciscans in Choir " 112 Cott. MSS., Dom. A. xvii.