A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Widows, see [Women] and [Marriage.]

Wilfred, St., his monastic labors, [167].

William of Aquitaine, [177].

William of Amour, [250].

William of Orange, [394].

Wolsey, Cardinal, [294], [308].

Women, welcome call of monks, [81]; Kingsley on same, [82]; Juvenal on Roman women, [82]; Jerome's influence on, [86], [96]; monasticism and, [106]; hermit life unsuited to, [107]; effect of corrupt society on, [107], no; distinguished by mercy, in, [350]; compared with monks, [111]; married life of, in Rome, [112]; influence of Ambrose upon, [126]; regulation of Guigo concerning monks and, [190].

Wyclif, attacks the friars, [253], [337]; spirit of, affects monasticism, [295], [429].

X

Ximenes, Cardinal, a Franciscan, [228].