THE ANTIQUARY’S BOOKS
GENERAL EDITOR: J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A.
ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE
ST. BENEDICT
PATRIARCH OF WESTERN MONKS
ENGLISH
MONASTIC LIFE
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
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Preface | xi |
| List of Manuscripts and Printed Books | xv |
| CHAPTER I | |
| The Monastic Life | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Material Parts of a Monastery | 13 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Monastery and its Rulers | 37 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| The Obedientiaries | 58 |
| 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 |
| [Pg vi] | |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The Nuns of Mediæval England | 154 |
| CHAPTER IX |