Medieval English Nunneries

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THE NOVICE
1
Luxurious clothes and entertainments
19
PRIVATE LIFE AND PRIVATE
24
42
58
Wicked prioresses
89
WORLDLY GOODS
96
3 issues of the manor
111
4 miscellaneous payments
112
Attitude of ecclesiastical authorities
338
Attempts to enforce enclosure in England
360
2 to enter a stricter rule
381
The nuns wander freely about in the world
392
11 overcrowding with nuns
395
Visitors in the cloister are another side of the enclosure problem
401
Robbery and violence
422
353
427

5 spiritualities
113
Expenses
117
1 internal expenses of the convent
119
2 divers expenses 123 3 repairs
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
136
Cellaresses accounts food
137
150
144
154
147
1 chaplain
148
2 administrative officials
149
3 household staff
150
4 farm labourers
151
The breakdown of personal poverty
152
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
161
Poverty of nunneries 1 prevalence of debt 2 insufficient food and clothing
162
3 ruinous buildings
171
4 nuns begging alms
172
1 natural disasters
182
4 right of patrons to take temporalities during voidance 5 right of bishop and king to nominate nuns on certain occasions
183
6 pensions corrodies grants and liveries 7 hospitality
200
8 litigation
201
9 bad management
203
10 extravagance
211
EDUCATION
237
the nuns teach?
274
Piety and breeding
281
The Benedictine combination of prayer study and labour
288
The strange tale of Sir John Arundels outrage on a nunnery
429
THE OLDE DAUNCE
436
Nuns lovers
442
361
448
Disorder in two small houses Cannington 1351 and Ease
452
161
455
Punishment of offenders
460
THE MACHINERY OF REFORM
475
The episcopal visitation and injunctions
497
363
579
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
FIFTEENTH CENTURY SAXON VISITATIONS
670
LIST OF ENGLISH NUNNERIES C 12751535
685
BIBLIOGRAPHY
693
164
704
168
705
176
707
183
709
186
710
188
712
492
713
194
715
200
716
212
717
The nuns and political movements
723

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