WOMAN UNDER MONASTICISM.

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WOMAN UNDER MONASTICISM

CHAPTERS ON
SAINT-LORE AND CONVENT LIFE
BETWEEN A.D. 500 AND A.D. 1500

BY
LINA ECKENSTEIN.

‘Quia vita omnium spiritualium hominum sine litteris mors est.’
Acta Murensis Monasterii.

CAMBRIDGE:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
1896

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PRINTED BY J. & C. F. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

TO
MY FRIENDS
KARL AND MARIA SHARPE PEARSON.