A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Relics, fraudulent, [128], [318].

Religion, monasticism and, [18], [412]; influence of feelings and opinions, [354]; enthusiasm for, fostered by monks, [413]; the sense of sin, [414]; salvation, [417]; the distinction between the secular and the religious, [418], [420]; the doctrine of the cross, [418]; essence of, [419]; true, possible outside of convents, [421].

Religious houses, see [Monasteries.]

Renunciation of the world, [358], [369]. See [Self-denial.]

Rice, Ap, a Royal Commissioner, [311].

Riches, see [Wealth.]

Richard II., confiscates alien priories, [338].

Robertson, F.W., on excessive austerities, [94].

Rome, Church of, her claims respecting the early British Church, [162]; writers of, on the stigmata, [223]; her relation to the Jesuits, [275], and the English people, [294], [341]; martyrs of, [332]; writers of, on the fall of monasteries, [334], [335]; England separates from, [342]; her religious ideal, [356]; Parkman on, [386]; Macaulay on, [403]. See [Henry VIII.]

Rome, Monasticism introduced in, [71]; social and religious state of, in the fourth century, [72], [74]; Dill on causes of the fall of, [74]; classes of society in, [75]; Farrar on luxury of, [75]; epigram of Silvianus, [76]; Kingsley on ruin of, [78]; Jerome on sack of, by Alaric, [103]. See [Jerome.]