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The monks of the West

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Les Moines d'occident depuis Benoit jusqu' à saint Bernard
1863, Jacques Lecoffre
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Les Moines d'occident depuis Benoit jusqu' à saint Bernard
1863, Jacques Lecoffre
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Les Moines d'occident depuis Benoit jusqu' à saint Bernard
1863, Jacques Lecoffre
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Les Moines d'occident depuis Benoit jusqu' à saint Bernard
1863, Jacques Lecoffre
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Les Moines d'occident depuis Benoit jusqu' à saint Bernard
1863, Jacques Lecoffre
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1861, William Blackwood and Sons
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Table of Contents

Introduction: 1. Origin of the work
2. Fundamental character of monastic institutions
3. Of the true nature of monastic vocations
4. Services rendered to Christendom by the monks
5. Happiness in the cloister
6. Charges against the monks
monastic wealth
7. Decline
8. Ruin
9. The true and false Middle Ages
10. Of the fortune of this book
Book 1: The Roman Empire after the peace of the church
Book 2: Monastic precursors in the East
Book 3: Monastic precursors in the West.

Edition Notes

'Authorised translation' -t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.

From the United Theological College, Aberystwyth (Ellis Library Collection).

Stamp: From the Library of the Late Revd. Owen Thomas, D.D., Liverpool. Purchased and presented by Mr William Thomas, Bootle, Liverpool to the Theological College, Bala, December 1891.

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xii, 515 pages
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themonksofthewes0001unse
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