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A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
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I

MONASTICISM IN THE EAST, . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Hermits of Egypt, . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Pillar Saint, . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The Cenobites of the East, . . . . . . . . 57

II

MONASTICISM IN THE WEST: ANTE-BENEDICTINE MONKS,
340-480 A.D., . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Monasticism and Women, . . . . . . . . . . 106
The Spread of Monasticism in Europe, . . . . . 115
Disorders and Oppositions, . . . . . . . . 124

III

THE BENEDICTINES, . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The Rules of Benedict, . . . . . . . . . . 138
The Struggle Against Barbarism, . . . . . . . 148
The Spread of the Benedictine Rule, . . . . . 158

IV

REFORMED AND MILITARY ORDERS, . . . . . . . . 173
The Military Religious Orders, . . . . . . . 197

V

THE MENDICANT FRIARS, . . . . . . . . . . . 205
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