A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Protestantism, effect of, upon monasticism, [286]; guilty of persecution, [332]; and the Church of England, [340]; its real value to England, [346]; its religious ideal, [356].

Putnam, on the rule of St. Benedict, [139]; on Cassiodorus, [153]; on the first quarrel over copyright, [170].

Pythagoras, asceticism of, [21], [426].

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Reade, Charles, on the monk's flight from the world, [368].

Reading, the monks of, their pious frauds, [318].

Recluses, see [Hermits.]

Reformed Orders, [173].

Reform, monastic, [173], [205]; fails to stop decline of monasteries, [196], [207], [286]; demanded by popes, [286]; failure of, [336]. See [Monasticism.]

Reformation, The Protestant, furthered by certain Franciscans, [247]; relation of Mendicants to, [248]; the Jesuits and, [277]; [278], [283]; in England, its character, and results, [345], [346]; and the monastic life, [374].