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.
Jocelin, quoted by Carlyle, 145. 
John, King, confiscates alien
  priories, 338. 
John, St., Knights of, see Knights. 
John, St., of Calama, visits his
  sister in disguise, 397. 
John, the Apostle, on love of the
  world, 377. 
John the Baptist, and asceticism,
  30. 
Johnson, on Monastery of Iona,
  168. 
Joseph, St., Church of, in England,
  163. 
Josephus on the Essenes, 23. 
Jovinian, hostility of, toward
  monks, 127; compared by
  Neander to Luther, 127. 
Julian, Emperor, the exodus of
  monks and the, 127. 
Juvenal, satire of, on Roman
  women, 82.

K

Keane, Bishop, on the Jesuits,
  259, 273. 
Kennaquhair, installation of abbot
  of, 145. 
King, on Hildebrand, 178. 
Kingsley, on Egypt and the hermits,
  34; on Roman women,
  82, 106; on fall of Rome, 78,
  367. 
Knights of St. John, their origin
  and mission, 200. 
Knights of the Hospital, sketch
  of the, 198. 
Knights Templars, rule of the,
  197; rise and fall of, 202.

L

Labor, manual, Jerome on, 59;
  in Pachomian rule, 60; Hill on
  benefits of, 142; among the
  Benedictines, 147, 404; Benedict
  on, 403; effect of Mendicants
  on, 404; not to be despised,
  420. 
Lama, Grand, in India, 21. 
Lateran Council, 242. 
Latimer, Bishop, and the monastic
  funds, 323. 
Laumer, St., and wild animals,
  156. 
Laveleye on Christianity, 378. 
Lay abbots, disorders among the,
  179. 
Layton, a Royal Commissioner,
  311. 312. 
Lea, on celibacy, 184; on the
  Reformation, 342. 
Learning, influence of Alcuin
  and Wilfred on, 167; Irish
  monasteries as centers of, 169;
  monks further, in England,
  252; the monks and secular,
  406; effects of monasticism on
  the course of, 407. See Literary
  services. 
Lecky, on Fabiola’s hospitals, 105;
  on asceticism and civilization,
  401; on industry and the monastic
  ideal, 405; on abuses of
  alms-giving, 411; on the monastic
  doctrines of hell, 418. 
Legh, a Royal Commissioner, 311. 
Leo X., Pope, 293. 
Liberty, the Jesuits on, 375. See
  Freedom and Independence. 
Libraries, monastic, 152. 
Lincoln, Abraham, quoted, 205. 
Lingard, on Bede and the conversion
  of King Lucius, 124; on the Anglo-Saxon Church,
  181. 
Literary services of monks, 153,
  406. See Learning. 
Lollardism, way paved for destruction
  of cloisters by, 294.
  See 429. 
Lombards destroy Monte Cassino,
  135. 
London, John, a Royal Commissioner,
  311. 
Longfellow, poem of, on Francis,
  218; on Monte Cassino, 135-
Lord, John, on needed religious
  reforms, 80. 

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