A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Voltaire, on the monks, [388].

Vows, monastic, [61]; irrevocable, [66], [112]; usual history of, [174]; of the military orders, [198]; the fundamental, [375]; the passing away of, [423]. See [Poverty], [Celibacy] and [Obedience.]

Vulgate, Jerome, [85].

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Waddington, on the hermits, [34]; on conscience and method of monks, [390].

War, monks incite to, [401].

Watch-dogs of the Church, a term applied to the Dominicans, [249].

Wealth, Christ's doctrine of, [377]; not in itself an evil, [379]; its true value, [405]; compatible with Christianity, [420].

White, on the theology of the monks, [416].

Whiting, Richard, Abbot of Glastonbury, [315].