| CHAPTER I |
| THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS |
| § [1.] The medieval monastery. [2.] Growth of monachism in theeast. [3.] Beginnings of western monachism: Italy, Gaul andIreland. [4.] The rule of St Benedict. [5.] The Benedictine orderin England: early Saxon monasteries. [6.] The Danish invasionsand the monastic revival. [7.] Monasticism after the Normanconquest. [8.] Benedictine abbeys and priories. [9.] Priories ofalien houses. [10.] The Cluniac order. [11.] The Carthusian order.[12.] The orders of Thiron, Savigny and Grandmont. [13.] Foundationand growth of the Cistercian order. [14.] Cistercian monasteries.[15.] Monks and conversi. [16.] Orders of canons: secular chapters.[17.] Augustinian canons. [18.] Premonstratensian canons. [19.] Theorder of Sempringham. [20.] Nunneries. [21.] Decline of the regularorders. The friars. [22.] Monastic property: parish churches.[23.] Monasteries as land-owners: financial depression. [24.] Moralcondition of the monasteries. [25.] Numbers of inmates of monasteries.[26.] The suppression of the monasteries. [27.] Remainsand ruins of monastic buildings | [1 - 39] |
| CHAPTER II |
| THE CONVENTUAL CHURCH |
| § [28.] Divisions of the monastery precinct: varieties of plan.[29.] The plan of church and cloister: necessities governing thechurch-plan. [30.] General arrangement of the church. [31.] Easternarm of the church: Anglo-Norman Benedictine and Cluniac plans.[32.] The presbytery and quire. [33.] Transept-chapels. [34.] Aisledenlargements of the eastern arm. [35.] The nave: processionaldoorways, altars and screens. [36.] Parochial use of the nave.[37.] The normal Cistercian plan: presbytery and transepts. [38.] Cistercianaisled presbyteries. [39.] Cistercian transepts. [40.] Arrangementof the Cistercian nave. [41.] Cistercian influence on the planof canons' churches. [42.] Aisled quires and presbyteries in canons'churches. [43.] Naves with single aisles in canons' churches.[44.] Aisleless naves. [45.] Aisleless plans: churches of nuns, Carthusianmonks, friars and Gilbertine canons | [39 - 71] |
| CHAPTER III |
| THE CLOISTER AND ITS BUILDINGS |
| § [46.] Plan and position of the cloister. [47.] The cloister-walknext the church. [48.] The eastern range: the parlour. [49.] Thechapter-house: its uses. [50.] Varieties of the chapter-house plan.[51.] Sub-vault of the dorter: treasury and common-house. [52.] Thedorter stairs. [53.] The dorter and rere-dorter. [54.] Buildingsopposite the church: the frater. [55.] The kitchen. [56.] Thecloister lavatory. [57.] The western range: the cellarer's buildingand its upper floor. [58.] Exceptional uses of the western range:Worcester, Durham and Easby | [72 - 95] |
| CHAPTER IV |
| THE CISTERCIAN CLOISTER, ETC. |
| § [59.] Plan of the eastern range: the vestry and library. [60.] TheCistercian chapter-house. [61.] Parlour, infirmary passage and sub-dorter.[62.] Dorter, rere-dorter and day-stair. [63.] The rangeopposite the church: plan of the frater. [64.] Arrangements of thewarming-house and frater. [65.] The kitchen: convenience of itsplace in the plan. [66.] The western range: cellarer's building andhouse of the lay brothers. [67.] Later changes in the Cistercianplan: misericords in cloister. [68.] Plans of houses of canons,friars, etc.: their kinship to the normal Benedictine plan. [69.] Carthusianhouses: the plan of Mount Grace | [95 - 113] |
| CHAPTER V |
| THE INFIRMARY AND THE OUTER COURT |
| § [70.] Objects of the infirmary. [71.] Buildings and position ofthe infirmary. [72.] Plan and arrangement of the infirmary hall.[73.] The infirmary kitchen and the misericord. [74.] The abbot'slodging: Cistercian usages. [75.] Abbots' and priors' lodgings inother orders. [76.] The guest-houses: division of hospitality.[77.] The outer court or curia: Cistercian entrance-courts. [78.] Thegatehouse. [79.] The almonry and its uses | [113 - 132] |
| CHAPTER VI |
| DISCIPLINE AND THE DAILY LIFE |
| § [80.] Officers of the monastery: the obedientiaries. [81.] Themonastic day and its divisions: the night-office. [82.] Services andwork of the morning in summer. [83.] The day from sext to compline.[84.] Arrangement of the day in winter: variations of daily custom.[85.] The Carthusian day | [133 - 142] |
| Bibliography | [143] |
| Index | [149] |