A Short History of Monks and Monasteries eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about A Short History of Monks and Monasteries.

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about A Short History of Monks and Monasteries.
of England,
     their methods, 308, 333;
  character of, 311;
  begin their work, 313;
  their report, 316;
  Parliament acts on same, 319. 
Confession, among the Jesuits, 269. 
Conscience, liberty of, renounced by monks, 394. 
Constantine the Great, 71. 
Contemplation, John Tauler on, 395;
  Bruno on, 396. 
Convents. See Monasteries. 
Copyright, first instance of quarrel for, 170. 
Council, of Saragossa, 122;
  of Trent, 382;
  Lateran, 242. 
Court of Augmentation, 319. 
Crocella, Santa, chapel of, 131;
  Romanus the monk, 131. 
Cromwell, Richard, on Sir John Russell, 326. 
Cromwell, Thomas, his life and aims, 308;
  Green and Froude on, 309;
  his religious views, 309;
  Foxe and Gasquet on character of, 310;
  becomes Vicegerent, 310;
  inspires terror and hatred, 324;
  his removal demanded, 326;
  overcomes the Pilgrims of Grace, 326;
  bribed for estates, 329. 
Cross, loyalty to the, fostered by monks, 414;
  power of the doctrine of, 418. 
Crusades, effect of, on monastic types, 373.
  See Military Orders and Bernard. 
Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, 61;
  and murder of Hypatia, 68.

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Damian, Church of St., repaired by Francis, 211, 214. 
Danish invasion of England, its consequences, 180. 
Dante, on Francis and poverty, 215. 
Democracy, Christian, and monasticism, 422. 
Desert, Jerome on attractions of, 89. 
De Tocqueville, on self-subjection, 143. 
Dhaquit, the Chaldean, quoted, 20. 
Dharmapala, on the ascetic ideal in India, 357. 
Dill, Samuel, on Rome’s fall and the Christian Church, 74, 79, 108,
     109. 
Domestic life, a field of forbidden fruit, 394, 398.
  See Family-ideal and Jerome. 
Dominic, St., Innocent III. dreams of, 216;
  early life of, 230;
  his mother’s dream, 231;
  visits Languedoc, 232;
  rebukes papal legates, 234;
  his crusade against Albigensians, 234;
  his relation to the Holy Inquisition, 235;
  establishes his order, 239;
  at Rome, 239;
  his self-denial and death, 240;
  canonized, 241. 
Dominic, St., Nuns of, 242. 
Dominicans, The, the Inquisition and, 238;
  order of, founded, 239;
  constitution of the order of, 241;
  spread of, 241;
  eminent members, 242;
  three classes of, 242;
  the preaching of, 249;
  quarrel with the Franciscans, 249;
  enter England, 251;
  fatal success and decline of, 253, 256;
  on the stigmata of Francis, 221;
  liberal education and, 408. 
Ducis, on the Hermits, 32. 
Duns Scotus, a Franciscan, 228. 
Dunstan, reforms of, 182;
  his character and life-work, 186.

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