| PAGE |
| Preface | vii |
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| CHAPTER I. |
| INTRODUCTORY. |
| § 1. The Borderland of Heathendom and Christianity | 1 |
| § 2. The Tribal Goddess as a Christian Saint | 15 |
| § 3. Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint | 28 |
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| CHAPTER II. |
| CONVENTS AMONG THE FRANKS, A.D. 550-650. |
| § 1. At the Frankish Invasion | 45 |
| § 2. St Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers | 51 |
| § 3. The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers. Convent Life in the North | 65 |
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| CHAPTER III. |
| CONVENTS AMONG THE ANGLO-SAXONS, A.D. 630-730. |
| § 1. Early Houses in Kent | 79 |
| § 2. The Monastery at Whitby | 88 |
| § 3. Ely and the influence of Bishop Wilfrith | 95 |
| § 4. Houses in Mercia and in the South | 106 |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
| ANGLO-SAXON NUNS IN CONNECTION WITH BONIFACE. |
| § 1. The Women corresponding with Boniface | 118 |
| § 2. Anglo-Saxon Nuns abroad | 134 |
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| CHAPTER V. |
| CONVENTS IN SAXON LANDS BETWEEN A.D. 800-1000. |
| § 1. Women’s Convents in Saxony | 143 |
| § 2. Early History of Gandersheim | 154 |
| § 3. The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings | 160 |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
| THE MONASTIC REVIVAL OF THE MIDDLE AGES. |
| 1. The new Monastic Orders | 184 |
| § 2. Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century | 201 |
| § 3. The Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham | 213 |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
| ART INDUSTRIES IN THE NUNNERY. |
| § 1. Art Industries generally | 222 |
| § 2. Herrad and the ‘Garden of Delights’ | 238 |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
| PROPHECY AND PHILANTHROPY. |
| § 1. St Hildegard of Bingen and St Elisabeth of SchÖnau | 256 |
| § 2. Women-Saints connected with Charity and Philanthropy | 285 |
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| CHAPTER IX. |
| EARLY MYSTIC LITERATURE. |
| § 1. Mystic Writings for Women in England | 305 |
| § 2. The Convent of Helfta and its Literary Nuns | 328 |
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| CHAPTER X. |
| SOME ASPECTS OF THE CONVENT IN ENGLAND DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AGES. |
| § 1. The external Relations of the Convent | 354 |
| § 2. The internal Arrangements of the Convent | 365 |
| § 3. The Foundation and internal Arrangements of Sion | 383 |
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| CHAPTER XI. |
| MONASTIC REFORM PREVIOUS TO THE REFORMATION. |
| § 1. Visitations of Nunneries in England |
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