Medieval English Nunneries, C. 1275 to 1535Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1988 - 724 pages |
Table des matières
1 a career and a vocation for girls | 1 |
2 a dumping ground for political prisoners | 2 |
3 for illegitimate deformed or halfwitted girls | 3 |
4 nuns forced unwillingly to profess by their relations | 4 |
5 a refuge for widows and occasionally for wives | 5 |
THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE | 42 |
1 excessive independence and comfort 2 autocratic government | 65 |
3 issues of the manor | 109 |
Dead routine | 289 |
PRIVATE LIFE AND PRIVATE | 315 |
The breakdown of personal poverty | 322 |
Private life and private property in the fourteenth and fifteenth | 331 |
Attitude of ecclesiastical authorities | 338 |
The Bull Periculoso | 344 |
Attempts to regulate and restrict the emergence of nuns from | 353 |
The nuns wander freely about in the world | 385 |
4 miscellaneous payments | 112 |
5 spiritualities | 113 |
Expenses | 117 |
1 internal expenses of the convent | 119 |
2 divers expenses | 123 |
4 the home farm | 125 |
5 the wages sheet | 129 |
MONASTIC HOUSEWIVES The obedientiaries | 131 |
Allocation of income and obedientiaries accounts | 134 |
Chambresses accounts clothes | 137 |
Servants | 143 |
1 chaplain | 144 |
2 administrative officials | 146 |
3 household staff | 150 |
Nunnery households | 151 |
Relations between nuns and servants | 154 |
Occasional hired labour | 157 |
Villages occasionally dependent upon nunneries for work | 158 |
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES Poverty of nunneries | 161 |
1 prevalence of debt | 162 |
2 insufficient food and clothing | 164 |
3 ruinous buildings | 168 |
4 nuns begging alms | 172 |
1 natural disasters | 176 |
2 ecclesiastical exactions and royal taxes | 183 |
3 feudal and other services | 185 |
4 right of patrons to take temporalities during voidance | 186 |
5 right of bishop and king to nominate nuns on certain occasions | 188 |
6 pensions corrodies grants and liveries | 194 |
7 hospitality | 200 |
8 litigation | 201 |
9 bad management | 203 |
10 extravagance | 211 |
11 overcrowding with nuns | 212 |
EDUCATION | 237 |
ecclesiastical authorities | 270 |
Life of school children in nunneries | 279 |
ROUTINE AND REACTION | 285 |
Conclusion | 391 |
The nuns and political movements | 419 |
Robbery and violence | 422 |
The strange tale of Sir John Arundels outrage on a nunnery | 429 |
THE OLDE DAUNCE | 436 |
Nuns lovers | 446 |
Disorder in two small houses Cannington 1351 and Ease | 452 |
Attempted statistical estimate of cases of immorality | 460 |
General conclusions | 471 |
How far was this control adequate? | 488 |
THE NUN IN MEDIEVAL LITERA | 499 |
Popular stories fabliaux exempla | 515 |
Didactic works addressed to nuns | 531 |
Secular literature in general | 555 |
Nunnery disputes | 581 |
E Convent pets in literature | 588 |
F The moral state of Littlemore Priory in the sixteenth cen | 595 |
H The disappearance or suppression of eight nunneries prior | 602 |
J The theme of the nun in love in medieval popular literature | 622 |
VISITATIONS OF NUNNERIES IN THE DIOCESE | 634 |
3 favouritism | 644 |
4 | 645 |
16 | 646 |
25 | 649 |
FIFTEENTH CENTURY SAXON VISITATIONS | 670 |
LIST OF ENGLISH NUNNERIES C 12751535 | 685 |
30 | 686 |
43 | 687 |
66 | 688 |
82 | 689 |
94 | 690 |
WORLDLY GOODS Evidence as to monastic property in 1 the Valor Ecclesiasticus 2 monastic account rolls Variation of size and income among ho... | 693 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Medieval English Nunneries C. 1275 to 1535, Volume 1275,Numéro 1535 Eileen Power Affichage du livre entier - 1922 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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