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.
  settle in England, 251;
  Baluzii on success of, 255;
  fatal success of, 253. 
Fratricelli, sketch of the, 247. 
Freedom, religious, want of, 402. 
Friars, Begging, see Franciscans, Dominicans and Mendicants. 
Friars Minor, 227. 
Froude, on the Charterhouse monks, 302, 304;
  on Thomas Cromwell, 309;
  on the report of the Royal Commissioners, 317;
  on the Catholics and the Reformation, 346. 
Future punishment, the monks and the doctrine of, 417.

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Gairdner, on Henry’s breach with Rome, 301. 
Galea, the Goth, awed by St. Benedict, 137. 
Gardiner, burns heretics, 311. 
Gasquet, on Thomas Cromwell, 310;
  quotes Burke on the suppression, 312. 
Gauls, monastic, complain to St. Martin, 120. 
Germany, monasticism enters, 122. 
Gervais, reason for his donations, 361. 
Gibbon, on bones of Simeon, 57;
  on Egyptian monks, 62;
  on Roman marriages, 110;
  saying of, applied to Ambrose, 116;
  on military orders, 199;
  quotes Zosimus, 348;
  on the monastic aim, 362;
  on the character of the monks, 388. 
Gindeley, on the Jesuits and the Thirty Years’ War, 277. 
Giovanni di San Paolo, on gospel perfection, 226. 
Glastonbury, fall of Abbey of, 314. 
Gnostics, and asceticism, 27, 366. 
Godfrey de Bouillon, endows Hospital of St. John, 201. 
Godric, his unique austerities, 132. 
Goldsmith, on the English character, 166. 
Grand Chartreuse, monastery, 189. 
Greece, asceticism in, 20. 
Greeks, ancient, asceticism among the, 21. 
Greek Church, monasticism of the, 64, 67. 
Green, J.R., on the preaching friars, 254;
  on Thomas Cromwell, 309;
  on the suppression, 323. 
Gregory of Nazianza, on ascetic moderation, 65. 
Gregory, Pope, I., 138;
  II., 135;
  VII., 160, 178;
  IX., 241;
  X., 245. 
Gregory, St., Monastery of, rules of, 141. 
Griffin, Henry, on the Royal Commissioners, 311. 
Grimke, on historic movements, 84. 
Guigo, rules of, 190;
  on vow of obedience, 383. 
Guizot, on state of early Europe, 149;
  on the Benedictines, 404;
  on monastic education, 407. 
Gustavus, contrasted to monks, 394. 
Guzman, see Dominic.

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Hallam, on the Albigensians, 233, 235;
  on the suppression, 334;
  on charity of the monks, 349. 
Happiness, the key to, 392. 
Hardwick, on the Albigensian doctrines, 233. 
Harnack, on early ascetics, 28;
  on nominal Christianity of Rome, 77;
  on life-ideal in the early church, 129;
  on monasticism and the church, 414. 
Hell, the monks’ teachings about, 417. 
Helvidius, on celibacy, 113. 
Henry, King, II., and the British church, 165;
  III., invites students to England, 252;
  IV., confiscates alien priories, 338. 

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