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Wishart, Alfred Wesley, 1865-1933

"A Short History of Monks and Monasteries"


Mendicity of monks, 245.
Milan, church of, Emperor refused
entrance to the, 115.
Military-religious orders, their origin,
labors and decline, 197.
Militia of Jesus Christ, 242.
Mill, John Stuart, on preaching
friars, 244.
Milman, on the early church leaders,
129; on dream of Dominic's mother, 231;
on bigotry of monks, 395;
on monks and natural affections, 398.
Milton, contrasted to monks, 394.
Miracles, 224.
_See_ Anthony, Stylites, St. Martin, etc.
Missionary labors, of monks, 148, 171, 398;
of the Jesuits, 280, 281.
Modern life and thought, monasticism rejected by, 421.
Mohammedans, mission of Francis to, 217.
Monastery, of Pachomius, 58;
Monte Cassino, 134;
St. Gregory's, rules of, 141;
Kennaquhair, 145;
Vivaria, 152;
Bangor, 165;
Iona, 168;
Cluny, 177;
Grand Chartreuse, 189;
Charterhouse, 191, 301, 334, 343;
Citeaux, 192;
Clairvaux, 193;
St. Nicholas, 240;
Melrose, 289;
Glastonbury, 314.
Monasteries, in Egypt, 44;
of Jerome, 88;
of Paula, 100;
in early Britain, 123;
as literary centers, 151;
decline of, in Middle Ages, 173;
destruction of, by Danes, 180;
corruptions of, in Dunstan's time, 185;
abandonment of endowments, 244;
fall of, in England, 286;
fall of, in various countries, 288, 430;
obstacles to progress, 343;
new uses of, 350;
life in, 392;
charity of, 410.
Monasteries, The Fall of, in England, 286;
various views of, 288;
necessity for dispassionate judgment, 289;
events preceding, 293;
progress and, 300;
the Charterhouse, 302;
the Royal Commissioners and their methods, 308, 313;
Glastonbury, 314;
report of commissioners, 313, 314;
action of Parliament, 319;
the lesser houses, 319;
the larger houses, 320;
total number and the revenues of, 321;
effect of, upon the people, 322;
Green on same, 323;
uprisings and rebellions, 325;
use of funds, 328;
justification for, 331;
Bale, Blunt and Hume on justification for, 333;
Hallam on, 334;
charges against monks true, 336;
Bonaventura and Wyclif on vices of monks, 337;
confiscation of alien priories, 338;
compared with suppression in other countries, 339, 430;
alienation of England from Rome, 342;
superficial explanation of, 343;
true view of, 344;
monks and reform, 344;
causes of, enumerated, 345;
results of, 345, 347;
general review of, 352;
Bryant on, 353.


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