INDEX.
The women here designated as saints are either included in the Acta Sanctorum Bollandorum, or else, this work waiting completion, are entered as saints in the ‘Table Hagiographique’ of Guérin, Les Petits Bollandistes, 1882, vol. 17.
abbess, position of, [87], [152], [203], [365] ff., [388]
Abra, St, [14]
Achachildis or Atzin, [34]
Adela, [40], see [Adolana]
Adelheid, abbess at Gandersheim, [273]
Adelheid, abbess at Nivelles, [152] footnote
Adelheid, abbess at Quedlinburg, [152]
Adelheid Helchen, abbess at Oberwerth, [421]
Adelitia, nun, [213]
Adeliz, abbess at Winchester, [210]
Admunt, convent at, [237]
Adolana, St, abbess at Pfälzel, [124]
Aebbe, St, abbess at Coldingham, [97], [101-103]
Aebbe, mother of Lioba, [134]
Aelfgifu or Emma, queen, makes a gift of hangings, [226]
Aelflaed, abbess at Whitby, [90], [93], [94], [103-106], [124], [126], [225]
Aelflaed, queen, makes a gift of hangings, [226]
Aelfthrith, abbess at Repton, [108]
Aethelburg, St, abbess at Barking, [111], [112]
Aethelburg St, or Aubierge, abbess at Brie, [78]
Aethelburg, abbess (at Hackness?), [94], [106]
Aethelburg, queen, founds a convent at Liming, [84]
Aetheldritha, abbess at Southminstre in Thanet, [87]
Aethelthrith, St, or Etheldred or Awdry, [96-99], [101], [225]
Aette, abbess at Folkestone, [87]
Afra, St, of Augsburg, [31], [32-33]
Afra von Velseck, nun, [425] ff.
Agatha, St, of Catania, [16], [17], [141]
Agilbert, St, [76]
Agius, interested in nuns, [154], [155], [157-159]
Agnes, St, of Rome, [18], [167], [314], [327]
Agnes, St, abbess at Poitiers, [52], [55-65]
Agnes, St, princess of Bohemia, [293], [296-297], [298]
Agnes, abbess at Quedlinburg, [233], [234]
Agnes Ferrar, abbess at Shaftesbury, [365]
Agnes Litherland, prioress at Gracedieu, [449]
Agnes Merrett, cellaress at Sion, [393]
Agnes Seyntel, prioress at Cambridge, [367]
Agnes Terry, prioress at Catesby, [369]
Ailred, his connection with nuns, [215], [218], [313-314], [321], [325]
Alburgh or Aethelburgh, convent of St, see [Barking]
Alena, St, [26]
Aleydis, lay sister at Bronope, [419]
Aleydis Ruyskop, nun at Rolandswerth, [428]
Alice Fitzherbert, abbess at Polesworth, [447]
Alice Henley, abbess at Godstow, [360]
Alice Wafer, prioress at Prée, [410]
alien priories, their number and appropriation, [386-387]
Altwick, convent at, [273]
Alwid, embroideress, [226]
Amalberga, St, [23]
Ambrosius, bishop of Milan, on Virginity, [14],
on St Agnes, [167]
Amesbury, convent at, [194], [201], [203], [205], [454]
ancre, defined, [312]
‘Ancren Riwle,’ [311-325], [357]
Angiltrud, nun, [138]
Ankerwyke, convent at, [357], [443]
Anna, duchess of Silesia, [295-296], [298]
Anne Boleyn, intends to retire to a nunnery, [437]
Anne Seton, prioress at Chatteris, [449]
anonymous nun, author of ‘Hodoeporicon’ etc., [139] ff.
Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, in connection with women, [184], [208-211]
Anselma, nun, [213]
Ansterbert, St, or Austreberta, [76]
Anstrud, St, or Austrudis, [77]
Apollonia Tucher, nun at Nürnberg, [460]
Arles, convent at, [48-50], [52], [56], [226]
armarium or bookcase, [216], [223]
Armengard von Rheden, abbess at Fischbeck, [418]
Atzin or Achachildis, [34]
Augustine, rule of St, [196]
Augustine, canons of, see [Austin or Black]
Aurea, St, [76]
Austreberta, see [Ansterbert]
Austin or Black canons, [186], [196], [197], [209]
Austin canonesses, [150], [197], [364], [371], [420]
Austrudis, see [Anstrud]
Awdry, see [Aethelthrith]
Balbine, St, [30]
Balthild, St, [71], [73], [74-78]
Bamberg, convent of St Clara at, [459]
Barbara Dalberg, nun at Marienberg, [429]
Barbara Schöndorfer, abbess at Sonnenburg, [427]
Barking, convent at, [111], [112], [113], [116], [121], [201], [203], [358], [363], [372], [377], [378], [443], [455]
Basina, nun at Poitiers, [65], [67-69]
Baudonivia, nun at Poitiers, [46], [52], [65]
Bega, St, [89]
Begu, nun at Hackness, [89], [93]
beguine, defined, [331]
Benedict, St, rule of, [50], [73], [74], [77], [186], [198], [215];
Anglo-Saxon version of, [312];
rhymed version of, [358] ff.
Benedictine nunneries, number of, in England, [204], [364]
Bergen, convent at, [204], [460], [474]
Berkley on Severn, convent at, [202]
Berlindis, St, [26], [27], [31]
Bernard of Clairvaux, [190], [258], [260]
Berthegund, [69-70]
Berthgit, nun, [139], also footnote
Berthild, St, or Bertilia, abbess at Chelles, [77]
Bilihild, St, [29]
Bingen, convent at, [263] ff.
Bischofsheim, convent at, [136], [137], [138]
Bona, [211]
Boniface, his correspondence with women, [118-142], [225], [232]
Bourges, convent at, [230]
Breslau, convent of St Clara at, [295]
Bridget, St, of Ireland, [14] footnote
Bridget, St, of Sweden, [383] ff.
Bridget Belgrave, chambress at Sion, [392]
Brie or Faremoutiers, convent at, [76], [77]
Brixen, convent of St Clara at, [424], [459]
Bromhall, convent at, [369], [436]
Bronope, convent at, [418]
Brunshausen, convent at, [155]
Brusyard, convent at, [447]
Buckland, convent at, [365]
Bugga, correspondent of Boniface, [131-133]
Bugga, daughter of King Centwin, [113]
Bugga or Heaburg, [131]
Burngith, nun at Barking, [113]
Bursfeld, congregation of, [415]
Busch, reformer of nunneries, [417] ff.
Butzbach, his correspondence with nuns, [428]
Caesaria, St, abbess at Arles, [48], [52], [56]
Caesaria II, abbess at Arles, [56]
Caesarius, St, rule of, [48-50], [226]
Cambridge, convent of St Radegund at, [367], [380], [435] and footnote
cameraria, see [chambress]
Campsey, convent at, [360], [376], [377], [378]
Cangith, [128] footnote
Canonlegh, see [Legh]
cantarista, see [leader of the choir]
Canterbury, convent of St Sepulchre at, [403], [439]
capellanissa, see [chaplain]
Carrow, convent at, [378]
Catesby, convent at, [368-369], [447-448]
Cathari, [273], [281]
Catherine de la Pole, abbess at Barking, [378]
Cecil Bodman, abbess at Wilton, [438] footnote, [441]
Cecilia, St, legend of, in English, [326]
cellaress or celleraria, office of, [216], [368], [371] ff., [393]
celleraria, see [cellaress]
Celtes, his connection with nuns, [183], [461] ff.
chambress or cameraria, office of, [378], [392]
Charitas Pirckheimer, abbess at Nürnberg, [458] ff.
Chartreuse, order of, [186], [199]
chaplain, female, or capellanissa, office of, [376-378]
Chatteris, convent at, [381], [401], [449]
Chaucer on nuns, [361], [362]
Chelles or Cala, convent at, [75], [77], [78], [82], [86]
Chester, convent of St Mary at, [448]
Chicksand, convent at, [445]
Chlotildis, [41]
Christiane, St, [25], [29]
Christina, nun, [213]
Christina, nun at Romsey, [207], [208]
Christina, prioress at Mergate, [227]
Christina Basset, prioress at St Mary Prée, [365], [410]
Christine, abbess at Gandersheim, [159]
Christine Strölin, abbess at Söflingen, [422]
Chrodield, nun at Poitiers, [50], [66-69], [226]
Chrothild, St, queen, [51]
Chunigundis, abbess at Göss, [235]
Chunihild, nun, [138], [139] footnote
Chunitrud, nun, [139]
Citeaux, order of, [186], [189-192]
Cistercian nunneries, number of, in England, [363]
Clara, St, of Assisi, [296]
Clara, St, convent of, at Brixen, Nürnberg, etc., see [Brixen], Nürnberg, etc.
Clara Gundelfingen, abbess at Nürnberg, [459]
Clara Pirckheimer, nun at Nürnberg, [459] ff.
Clares, Poor, or Nuns Minoresses, [364]
Clemence, nun at Barking, [357]
Clement, St, convent of, at York, see [York]
Clugni, order of, [186], [187-189]
Clugniac nunneries, number of, in England, [363]
Coldingham, convent at, [97], [101], [102]
Cöln, convent of St Maria at, [152] footnote, [421]
Columban, St, rule of, [72], [73], [77]
consecration of nuns, [380]
Cordula, St, [283]
Crabhouse, convent at, [358]
Cunera, St, [21], [29], [43]
Cusanus, as monastic reformer, [416], [422] ff.
Cuthberht, his connection with abbesses, [102-105], [225]
Cuthburg, St, of Wimbourne, [106], [113], [116]
Cuthburg, suffering torments in hell, [121]
Cwenburg, St, of Wimbourne, [116]
Cwenburg, nun at Watton, [91]
Cyneburg, St, of Castor, [106], [107]
Cynehild, nun, [135]
Cyneswith, St, of Castor, [107]
Cynethrith, abbess, [225]
Davington, convent at, [357], [380]
Delapray, convent at, [447]
Dennis, convent at, [449], [450]
Derneburg, convent at, [417], [420]
Didimia, abbess at Poitiers, [65]
Diemud, scribe, [236-237]
Disibodenberg, nuns’ convent attached to, [262]
Dollendis, see [Rolendis]
Dominican friars, abroad, [291], [295], [332];
in England, [309]
Dominican nuns, [364]
Dominican nunneries, number of, in England, [364]
Dorothy Barley, abbess at Barking, [455]
Dorstad, convent at, [418]
Eadburg, abbess at Thanet, [120], [121], [122], [123], [225]
Eadburga, [84]
Eadgifu, abbess at Leominster, [202]
Eadgith, nun at Barking, [112]
Ealdgith, nun at Barking, [113]
Ealdhelm, interested in nuns, [112-115], [172], [226]
Eangith, correspondent of Boniface, [118], [128-131]
Eanswith, St, of Folkestone, [83]
Earcongotha, St, [78], [85]
Easebourne, convent at, [360], [366], [376], [403], [404-406]
Easington, convent at, [93]
East Dereham, convent at, [96]
ebdomary, office of, [390]
Ebsdorf, convent at, [236]
Ecgburg, abbess at Repton, [109], [126]
Edelind, abbess at Niedermünster, [241]
Edigna, St, [27]
Edward’s, St, convent of, at Shaftesbury, see [Shaftesbury]
Eger, convent of St Clara at, [466]
Eichstätt, convent of St Walburg at, [421]
Einbeth or Einbetta, St, [40]
Eleanor, queen, takes the veil at Amesbury, [201]
elemosinaria, office of, [378]
Elisabeth, St, of Thüringen and Hungary, [285], [295], [298-304]
Elisabeth, St, nun at Schönau, [257], [277-285], [429]
Elisabeth Krelin, abbess at Heggbach, [421]
Elisabeth von Mansfeld, nun at Helfta, [329]
Elisabeth von Seckendorf, abbess at Eichstätt, [421]
Elizabeth Barton, [439]
Elizabeth Shelley, abbess at Winchester, [448], [449], [454], [455]
Elizabeth Zouche, abbess at Shaftesbury, [455]
Elizabeth Throgmerton, abbess at Dennis, [450]
Elizabeth Walton, nun at Cambridge, [367], [368]
Elizabeth Webb, prioress at Sopwell, [410]
Ellandune, convent at, see [Wilton]
Elstow, convent at, [204] footnote, [377]
Ely, convent at, [95-106], [202], [225], [226]
embroidery done by nuns, [224] ff.
Engelthal, convent at, [471]
Eormenhild, St, abbess at Sheppey and Ely, [100]
Erasmus, on canons, [195],
on the position of women, [429] ff.
Erfurt, convent at, [236]
eruditrix, office of, [379]
Essen, convent at, [148], [149], [151], [232]
Ethel-, see under [Aethel-]
Eufemia, abbess at Winchester, [366]
Eulalia, abbess at Shaftesbury, [210]
Eulalia, nun at Barking, [113]
Euphemia Pirckheimer, abbess at Bergen, [460]
Eustadiola, St, abbess at Bourges, [230]
Eutropia, [35], see [Ontkommer]
Eva, recluse, [211]
Everhild, St, [111]
‘Exercitia Spiritualia,’ by St Gertrud, [351] ff.
‘Explanatio regulae St Benedicti,’ by St Hildegard, [270]
‘Explanatio symboli St Athanasii,’ by St Hildegard, [270]
‘Expositiones Evangeliorum,’ by St Hildegard, [270]
Fara, St, abbess at Brie, [76]
Faremoutiers, convent at, see [Brie]
Fécamp, convent at, [77]
Felicitas Grundherrin, nun at Nürnberg, [460], [471]
Fischbeck, convent at, [418]
‘Fliessende, das, Licht der Gottheit,’ by Mechthild, [332] ff.
Flixton, convent at, [369], [377]
Florence Bannerman, abbess at Amesbury, [454]
Folkestone, convent at, [83], [87]
Fontevraud, order of, [193-194], [205]
Fortunatus, his connection with nuns, [58-64]
Framehild, St, [76]
Francis, St, of Assisi, [285], [291], [296], [301], [364]
Franciscan friars and nuns, [291], [295], [302], [309], [364], [422]
Frankenberg, convent at, [418]
French, use of, in convents, [357] ff.
Frideswith, St, of Oxford, [110]
Frigith, nun at Hackness, [93]
Fuller, on nunneries, [457]
Gandersheim, convent at, [148], [151], [152], [154] ff.
Gehulff, [35], see [Ontkommer]
Geiler, as a reformer of convents, [428]
Geisenfeld, convent at, [460]
Geneviève, St, of Paris, [26], [43], [51]
Genovefa, [26]
Georg, St, convent of, at Halle, see [Halle]
Gerald Barri, on monasticism, [199]
Gerberg I, abbess at Gandersheim, [159]
Gerberg II, abbess at Gandersheim, [151], [153], [160], [162], [163], [166], [167], [182]
Germana, St, [25], [29]
Gertrud, St, nun at Helfta, [329], [346] ff.
Gertrud, St, of Nivelles, [7], [23]
Gertrud, [26]
Gertrud, abbess at Helfta, [329]
Gertrud, abbess at Trebnitz, [293], [295], [296]
Gertrud von Büchel, nun at Rolandswerth, [429]
Gilbert of Sempringham, St, order of, [186], [213-221]
Gisela, [147]
Gisela, queen of Hungary, [233]
Gisleberga, St, [43]
Godam Hampton, nun at Barking, [366]
Godeleva, St, or Godeleina, [24], [25], [29], [30]
Godstow, convent at, [204] footnote, [206], [357], [360], [400], [447], [453]
Göss, convent at, [235]
Gracedieu, convent at, [449]
Grandmont, order of, [186], [199]
Gredanna von Freyberg, abbess at Urspring, [421]
Gregory of Tours, his connection with nuns, [51] ff.
Gudila, St, [23]
Gunthild, St, [7], [27], [35], [139] footnote
Guthlac, his connection with nuns, [108-110], [225]
Gutta, scribe, [237]
Hackness, convent at, [93], [94], [106]
Hadewy, abbess at Herford, [147]
‘Hali Meidenhad,’ [326-328]
Halle, convent of St Georg at, [418]
Hanbury, convent at, [100]
Harwold, convent at, [446]
Hartlepool, convent at, [88], [89], [90], [94]
Hathumod, abbess at Gandersheim, [149], [154-159]
Heaburg, called Bugga, nun, [128], [131]
Hedwig, St, of Silesia, [291] ff., [298], [299]
Hedwig, abbess at Neuss, [152] footnote
Hedwig, duchess of Swabia, [162], [233]
Heggbach, convent at, [421]
Heiningen, convent at, [236], [418], [419]
Heiu, abbess at Hartlepool, [88], [89]
Helen, St, [114]
Helen, St, convent of, in London, see [London]
Helena von Iltzen, prioress at Marienberg, [418]
Helena Meichnerin, abbess at Nürnberg, [463]
Helfta, convent at, [328] ff.
Hereswith, St, [78], [82], [96], [97]
Hereswytha, abbess at Sheppey, [87]
Herford, convent at, [147], [148], [149], [155]
Heriburg, abbess at Watton, [91]
Herlind, St, abbess at Maaseyck, [230-232]
Hersende, abbess at Fontevraud, [194]
Heyninges, convent of St Mary at, [449]
Hidburg, nun at Barking, [113]
Hilarius, verses on recluses, [211]
Hild, St, of Whitby, [82], [89] ff., [96]
Hildegard, St, of Bingen, [256] ff., [429]
Hildelith, St, abbess at Barking, [112], [113], [121]
Hildemarque, [77]
Hilp, [11], [35], see [Ontkommer]
‘Hodoeporicon’ by anonymous nun, [139] ff.
Hohenburg, convent at, [22], [24], [238] ff.
‘Hortus Deliciarum,’ by Herrad, [238] ff.
Hrotsvith, abbess at Gandersheim, [160]
Hrotsvith, nun at Gandersheim, [143], [153], [154-183], [429]
Ida, St, ancestress of Liudolfings, [23] footnote
Ida, abbess at St Maria (on the Münzenberg?), [152] footnote
Ida, ancestress of Karlings, [23]
Ida, nun at Bronope, [419]
Ida, nun at Gandersheim, [151], [152] footnote
Idonea, nun, [212]
Iduberga, [43]
Idung, on nuns, [198]
infirmaria, [378]
Ingetrud, abbess at Tours, [51], [58], [69], [70]
Inthware or Iuthware, [30]
Irmina, St, [40]
Isabel Jordan, abbess at Wilton, [438]
Isengard von Greiffenklau, [421]
Itta, [43]
Jane Gowryng, [443]
Jane Messyndyne, [447]
Joan Ashcomb, nun at Shaftesbury, [366]
Joan Chapell, prioress at Sopwell, [410]
Joan Darrell, abbess at Amesbury, [454]
Joan Formage, abbess at Shaftesbury, [366]
Joan Lancaster, prioress at Cambridge, [367], [368]
Joan Sandford, prioress at Heyninges, [449]
Joan Rawlins, prioress at Bromhall, [436]
Johan or Jane Arundell, abbess at Legh, [368]
Johanna de Northampton, prioress at Catesby, [368]
John of Salisbury, on monks and nuns, [200], [201]
Jouarre, convent at, [76]
Joyce Bykeley, prioress at Catesby, [448]
Juliana, St, legend of, [326], [327]
Juliana, prioress at Bromhall, [369]
Juliana Baucyn, abbess at Shaftesbury, [365]
Justina, nun at Barking, [113]
Juthware, see [Inthware]
Jutta, St, [338]
Jutta, ‘magistra,’ at Disibodenberg, [262]
Katharina Pirckheimer, prioress at Geisenfeld, [460]
Katharine, St, life of, by Clemence of Barking, [357]
Katherine Babington, nun at Campsey, [360]
Katherine Bulkeley, abbess at Godstow, [453]
Katherine Sayntlow, nun at Cambridge, [367]
Katheryne Wyngate, nun at Elstow, [377]
Kilburn, convent at, [206], [360], [376]
Kirkless, convent at, [452], [453]
kitchener or cook, office of, [216], [375]
Kizzingen, convent at, [138], [273], [292], [293], [303]
Kleinfrankenthal, convent at, [420]
Krischmerge, [41]
Kümmerniss, see [Ontkommer]
Kunigund, St, empress, [232]
Kunigundis, St, [40]
‘Land of Cockayne,’ [411]
Langendorf, convent at, [415]
Langland, on nuns, [406]
Laon, convent at, [77]
Las Huelgas, convent at, [191]
Laycock, convent at, [441], [448]
leader of the choir or precentrix, succentrix, cantarista, [216], [368], [378], [391]
‘Legatus Divinae Pietatis,’ by St Gertrud, [348] ff.
Legbourne, convent at, [446]
Legh, convent of, or Canonlegh or Minchenlegh, [358], [368]
legister or reader, office of, [391]
Leobgith, see [Lioba]
Leominster, convent at, [202]
Leonard, St, convent of, see [Stratford]
Leubover, abbess at Poitiers, [65] ff., [226]
Leukardis, scribe, [237]
Liberata, St, or Liberatrix, [35], [37], see [Ontkommer]
Lillechurch, convent at, [212], [436]
Liming, convent at, [84], [87]
Lindesay on convent life, [456]
Linthildis, see [Lufthildis]
Lioba, St, [117], [134] ff.
Littlemore, convent at, [437]
Little Marlow, convent at, [442]
Liutberg, recluse, [147]
Livrade, [35], see [Ontkommer]
Liwid, embroideress, [226]
London, convent of Poor Clares, or Minories, [364]
London, convent of St Helen in, [378]
Lucia, abbess at Shaftesbury, [366]
Lucie, St, of Sampigny, [25]
Lufthildis, St, [25], [26], [42]
Lul, his correspondence with nuns, [134], [137], [138]
Lüne, convent at, [236]
‘Luve Ron,’ [310]
Maaseyck, convent at, [231-232]
magistra noviciarum, see [mistress of the novices]
Mallersdorf, convent at, [237]
Malling, convent at, [204] footnote, [363], [380], [443] footnote
Margaret, St, legend of, [326]
Margaret, St, queen of Scotland, [207-208], [289]
Margaret Punder, prioress at Flixton, [369]
Margaret Tewkesbury, abbess at Delapray, [447]
Margaret Vernon, prioress at Little Marlow, [443]
Maria, St, convent of, at Cöln etc., see [Cöln] etc.
Mariahilf, [11], [35]
Mariasif, [11]
Marienberg, convent at, in Saxony, [418-419]
Marienberg, convent at, near Trier, [421]
Marienborn, convent at, [420]
Mariensee, convent at, [417]
Marricks, convent of St Andrew, [449], [456]
Mary, St, the Virgin, [9], [10], [11]
Mary and Martha, as types of activity, [305], [314], [324], [325]
Mary, St, convent of, at Chester etc., see [Chester] etc.
Mary, daughter of St Margaret, [207], [209]
Mary of Blois, abbess at Romsey, [201], [212]
Mathea Fabyan, nun at Barking, [377]
Mathilde, abbess at Essen, [151], [232]
Mathilde, abbess at Kizzingen, [292], [303]
Mathilde, abbess at Quedlinburg, [149], [151], [153], [232]
Mathilde, abbess at Villich, [152] footnote
Matilda, abbess at Amesbury, [201]
Matilda, abbess at Winchester, [210]
Matilda, queen, [207] ff., [289] ff., [298]
Matilda Sudbury, nun at Cambridge, [367]
Maxima, abbess, [113]
Mechthild, [7]
Mechthild, beguine, [305], [329], [330], [331-340]
Mechthild, nun at Helfta, [329], [330], [340-346]
Mechthild von Wippra, nun, [329]
Mechtund, St, [40]
Mergate, convent at, [227]
Mildburg, St, of Wenlock, [85], [121]
Mildgith, St, [85]
Mildthrith, St, of Thanet, [85-86]
Minories, see [London, convent of Poor Clares]
Minstre in Thanet, see [Thanet]
mistress of the novices, magistra noviciarum, [217], [378]
Modwen, St, [111] and footnote, [446] footnote
Montreuil-les-Dames, convent at, [191]
Münich, convent of St Clara at, [460]
Münzenberg, convent of St Maria on the, [152] footnote
mynchyn, use of word, [364] footnote, [368], [454]
Neuss, convent at, [152] footnote
Neuwerk, convent at Erfurt, [418]
Nider, on nuns, [459]
Niedermünster, convent, [241]
Nigel Wirecker on monks and nuns, [200]
Nivelles, convent at, [152] footnote
Norbert, St, order of, see [Prémontré]
Notburg, St, [34]
Notburg, St, or Nuppurg, [26]
Notburg, [24]
Nunappleton, convent at, [452], [453]
Nun-Cotham, convent at, [207] footnote
Nun-Kelyng, convent at, [453]
Nun-Monkton, convent at, [357]
Nunnaminster, see [Winchester, convent of St Mary at]
Odilia, St, [22], [24], [240], [251]
Ontkommer or Wilgefortis, St, [35-38], [43]
‘opus anglicum,’ [228]
‘Order of Fair Ease,’ on religious orders, [201]
Osburg, [111] and footnote
Osburg, nun at Barking, [113]
Osgith, [113] footnote
Osith, St, [110]
Oswen, St, or Osman, [30]
Oxenfurt, convent at, [138]
Paris, convent at, [51], [76]
Paula, St, of Avila, [36] footnote
Pavilly, convent at, [76]
Pega, St, [109], [110]
Pellmerge, [41]
Peter of Blois, corresponding with nuns, [213]
Petronille, abbess at Fontevraud, [194]
Pfälzel or Palatiolum, convent at, [124]
Pharaildis, St, [21], [22], [23], [27] footnote, [30], [34]
Pietrussa, abbess at Trebnitz, [293], [295]
Pillenreuth, convent at, [471]
Poitiers, convent at, [51] ff.
Polesworth, convent at, [447]
Pollesloe, convent at, [448]
portress, office of, [217]
Prague, convent of St Clara at, [296]
precentrix, see [leader of the choir]
Prée, convent of St Mary, [366], [408], [410]
Prémontré, order of, [186], [193-194]
prioress, position and office of, [204], [216], [370] ff.
profession and consecration of nuns, [379-380]
Pusinna, St, [147]
Quedlinburg, convent, [146], [147], [148], [149], [150], [151], [152], [153], [232], [233]
Radegund, St, of Poitiers, [45], [51-65], [225]
Radegund, St, or Radiane, [27], [29], [34], [35]
Radegund, St, convent of, see [Cambridge, convent of St Radegund]
Ramsen, convent at, [420]
Redlingfield, convent at, [363], [377], [378]
refectuaria, office of, [378]
Regenfled, [35], see [Ontkommer]
Regenfrith, [35], see [Ontkommer]
Regina, St, [29]
Reinild, St, abbess at Maaseyck, [230-232]
Reinildis, St, [23]
Relind, abbess at Hohenburg,
[241]
Repton, convent at, [108], [126], [202]
Richardis, nun at Bingen, [272]
Richmondis van der Horst, abbess at Seebach, [428]
Rikkardis, nun at Gandersheim, [161], [163]
Robert, St, founder of the order of Fontevraud, [193]
Rolandswerth, convent at, [429]
Rolendis, St, [27], [42]
Romsey, convent at, [201], [207], [208], [209], [212], [357], [360], [378]
Rosa, [211]
Rosalia, St, of Palermo, [18]
Rusper, convent at, [380], [381], [403], [404]
Ryhall, convent at, [107]
Sabina Pirckheimer, abbess at Bergen, [460], [474]
Saethrith, St, or Syre, [77], [85], [96]
Salaberg, St, [77]
Scheurl, his connection with nuns, [460], [464]
Scholastica, nun at Barking, [113]
Schönau, convent at, [278] ff.
Schönfeld, convent at, [420]
Schwellmerge, [41]
scrutatrix, see [sercher]
Seebach, convent at, [428]
Sempringham, order of, [186], [195], [201], [213-221]
sercher or scrutatrix, [216]
Seton, convent of, [403], [451]
Sexburg, St, [84], [96], [100]
sexton, office of, [370], [371], [390]
Shaftesbury, convent of St Edward at, [203], [204], [210], [357], [365], [366], [376], [379], [455]
Sheppey, convent at, [84], [87], [96], [100], [205], [379]
Sigegith, [113]
Sinningthwaite, convent at, [207]
Sion, convent at, [360], [364], [383] ff., [439]
Söflingen, convent at, [422], [429]
Soissons, convent at, [147]
Sonnenburg, convent at, [422] ff.
Sophie, abbess at Eichstätt, [421]
Sophie, abbess at Gandersheim, [151], [152]
Sophie, abbess at Kizzingen, [273]
Sophie, abbess (at Mainz?), [152] footnote
Sophie von Mansfeld, nun at Helfta, [329]
Sopwell, convent at, [206], [357], [409], [410]
Southminstre, convent at, [87]
‘Spiritual Convent or Ghostly Abbey,’ [339], [377], [411]
Stanford, convent at, [206]
Stendal, convent at, [420]
Strasburg, convent of St Mary Magdalen, [428],
of St Stephan, [428]
Stratford, convent of St Leonard at, [212], [358], [363]
Streanshalch, see [Whitby]
sub-prioress, office of, [370]
succentrix, see [leader of the choir]
Suitha, abbess, [134]
Superba, [211]
Sura, St, or Soteris or Zuwarda, [29]
Swine, convent at, [207] footnote, [378], [453]
Tart, convent at, [191]
Tecla, correspondent of Boniface, [135], [138], [139]
Tecla, nun at Barking, [113]
Tecla, nun at Bronope, [419]
Teclechildis, see [Theodohild]
Tetbury, convent at, [117]
Tetta, abbess at Herford, [147]
Tetta, abbess at Wimbourne, [117], [135], [136]
Thanet, convent at, or Minstre, [85], [86], [87], [120]
thesaurissa, see [treasurer]
Theodohild, St, or Teclechildis, of Jouarre, [76]
Theofanu, abbess at Essen, [152] footnote, [232]
Theorigitha, see [Torctgith]
Thetford, convent at, [379], [402]
Thomas Beket, his connection with nuns, [201], [212]
Thomas de Hales, poem for nuns, [309] ff.
Tibba or Tilba, [107], [108], [110]
Tinmouth, convent at, [82] footnote
Torctgith, St, or Theorigitha, [112]
Tours, convent at, [51], [58], [69-70]
treasurer or thesaurissa, [368], [378]
Trebnitz, convent at, [292], [293], [294], [295]
Trentham, convent at, [100]
Tritheim, his connection with nuns, [428]
tutrix, office of, [379]
Uncumber, [38] footnote, see [Ontkommer]
Urspring, convent at, [421]
Ursula, St, [21], [25], [34], [40], [283], [284]
Ursula Cantor, [429]
Verbetta, St, [40]
Verena, St, of Zurzach, [23], [24], [26], [31-32]
Verena, St, [283]
Verena von Stuben, abbess at Sonnenburg, [423] ff.
Villbetta, St, [40]
Villich, convent at, [152]
Wadstena, convent at, [384] ff.
Wala, abbess, [130]
Walburg, St, or Waltpurgis, [11] footnote, [25], [26], [27], [139]
Walpurg Pirckheimer, nun, [460]
Walter Map, on monks and nuns, [200], [202]
Waltpurgis, see [Walburg]
Warbeth, [40]
Watton, convent at, [91], [218-219], [220]
Weedon, convent at, [100]
Wende, convent at, [236]
Wenlock, convent at, [86], [121]
Wennigsen, convent at, [417]
Werburg, St, [100]
Werder, convent at, [417]
Wessobrunn, nuns at, [236]
Wethburg, abbess, [124], [126], [127], [132]
Wherwell, convent at, [212], [455]
Whitby or Streanshalch, convent at, [88-95], [103], [105], [106], [124], [202]
Wibrandis, St, [40]
Wienhausen, convent at, [235], [417]
Wihtburg, St, [96]
Wilbeth, [40]
Wilcoma, abbess at Chelles, [86]
Wilfrith, his connection with abbesses, [95] ff., [225]
Wilgefortis, St, [35], see [Ontkommer]
Wilibald Pirckheimer, his connection with nuns, [461] ff.
Wilnotha, abbess at Liming, [87]
Wilton, convent at, or Ellandune, [203], [369], [438], [441]
Wimbourne, convent at, [116], [117], [134], [202]
Wimpheling, on nunneries, [429]
Winchester, convent of St Mary at, or Nunnaminster, [184], [203], [210], [211], [366], [376], [380], [448], [454], [455]
Windesheim, congregation of, [417] ff.
Winifred, St, [30]
Winteney, convent at, [359]
Wittewierum, convent at, [237]
Wolfsindis, [29]
Woodchester, convent at, [202] footnote
Wroxhall, convent at, [229], [363]
Wykes, convent at, [437]
York, convent of St Clement’s at, [206]
Zuwarda, see [Sura]
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Footnotes:
[1] The literature on this subject is daily accumulating. Among older authorities are Bachofen, Das Mutterrecht, 1861; Zmigrodski, Die Mutter bei den Völkern des arischen Stammes, 1886; Pearson, K., Ethic of Free Thought, 1888.
[2] Kriegk, G. L., Deutsches Bürgerthum im Mittelalter, 1868, ch. 12-15.