Alfred Wesley Wishart

     
     

 

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PREFACE

 

I. MONASTICISM IN THE EAST

 

II. MONASTICISM IN THE WEST: ANTE-BENEDICTINE MONKS 340-480 A.D.

 

III. THE BENEDICTINES

 

IV. REFORMED AND MILITARY ORDERS

 

V. THE MENDICANT FRIARS

 

VI. THE SOCIETY OF JESUS

 

VII. THE FALL OF THE MONASTERIES

 

VIII. CAUSES AND IDEALS OF MONASTICISM

 

IX. THE EFFECTS OF MONASTICISM

 

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      A SHORT HISTORY OF

 

      MONKS

 

      AND MONASTERIES

 

      By ALFRED WESLEY WISHART

 

      Sometime Fellow in Church History in The University of Chicago

 

      ALBERT BRANDT, PUBLISHER TRENTON, NEW JERSEY MDCCCC

 

      1900