THIRD EDITION

LONDON: ALEXANDER MORING LIMITED
THE DE LA MORE PRESS 32 GEORGE STREET
HANOVER SQUARE W 1911

CONTENTS.

THE MONKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
CHAP. PAGE
[I.]The Origin of Monachism[1]
[II.]The Benedictine Orders[6]
[III.]The Augustinian Order[18]
[IV.]The Military Orders[26]
[V.]The Orders of Friars[36]
[VI.]The Convent[54]
[VII.]The Monastery[70]
THE HERMITS AND RECLUSES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
[I.]The Hermits[93]
[II.]Anchoresses, or Female Recluses[120]
[III.]Anchorages[132]
[IV.]Consecrated Widows[152]
THE PILGRIMS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
[I.]Pilgrims[157]
[II.]Our Lady of Walsingham and St. Thomas of Canterbury[176]
THE SECULAR CLERGY OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
[I.]The Parochial Clergy[195]
[II.]Clerks in Minor Orders[214]
[III.]The Parish Priest[222]
[IV.]Clerical Costume[232]
[V.]Parsonage Houses[252]
THE MINSTRELS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
[I.] [267]
[II.]Sacred Music[284]
[III.]Guilds of Minstrels[298]
THE KNIGHTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
[I.]Saxon Arms and Armour[311]
[II.]Arms and Armour, from the Norman Conquest downwards[326]
[III.]Armour of the Fourteenth Century[338]
[IV.]The Days of Chivalry[353]
[V.]Knights-Errant[369]
[VI.]Military Engines[380]
[VII.]Armour of the Fifteenth Century[394]
[VIII.]The Knight’s Education[406]
[IX.]On Tournaments[423]
[X.]Mediæval Bowmen[439]
[XI.]Fifteenth Century and later Armour[452]
THE MERCHANTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
[I.]Beginnings of British Commerce[461]
[II.]The Navy[475]
[III.]The Social Position of the Mediæval Merchants[487]
[IV.]Mediæval Trade[503]
[V.]Costume[518]
[VI.]Mediæval Towns[529]

THE MONKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.