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Situation, income and size of the English nunneries 1
Nuns drawn from the nobles and gentry 4 the middle class 9
Nunneries in medieval wills 14
The dowry system 16
Motives for taking the veil: a career and a vocation for girls 25 a 'dumping ground' for political prisoners 29 for illegitimate, deformed or half-witted girls 30 nuns forced unwillingly to profess by their relations 33 a refuge for widows and occasionally for wives 38
Superiors usually women of social standing 42
Elections and election disputes 43
Resignations 56
Special temptations of a superior: excessive independence and comfort 59 autocratic government 64 favouritism 66
The superior a great lady in the country side 68
Journeys 69
Luxurious clothes and entertainments 73
Picture of heads of houses in Bishop Alnwick's Lincoln visitations 80
Wicked prioresses 82
Good prioresses 89
General conclusion: Chaucer's picture borne out by the records 94
Variation of size and income among houses 98
Methods of administration of estates 99
Sources of income: rents from land and houses 100 manorial perquisites and grants 103 issues of the manor 109 miscellaneous payments 112 spiritualities 113
Expenses 117 internal expenses of the convent 119 divers expenses 123 repairs 123 the home farm 125 the wages sheet 129
The obedientiaries 131
Allocation of income and obedientiaries' accounts 134
Chambresses' accounts 137
Cellaresses' accounts 137
Servants 143 chaplain 144 administrative officials 146 household staff 150 farm labourers 150
Nunnery households 151
Relations between nuns and servants 154
Occasional hired labour 157
Villages occasionally dependent upon nunneries for work 158
Poverty of nunneries 161 prevalence of debt 162 insufficient food and clothing 164 ruinous buildings 168 nuns begging alms 172
Reasons for poverty: natural disasters 176 ecclesiastical exactions and royal taxes 183 feudal and other services 185 right of patrons to take temporalities during voidance 186 right of bishop and king to nominate nuns on certain occasions 188 pensions, corrodies, grants and liveries 194 hospitality 200 litigation 201 bad management 203 extravagance 211 overcrowding with nuns 212
The education of the nuns: Learning of Anglo-Saxon nuns, and of German nuns at a later date 237 Little learning in English nunneries during the later middle ages 238 Nunnery libraries and nuns' books 240 Education of nuns 244 Latin in nunneries 246 Translations for the use of nuns 251 Needlework 255 Simple forms of medicine 258
Nunneries as schools for children: The education of novices 260 The education of secular children 261 Boys 263 Limitations: not all nunneries took children 264 only gentlefolk taken 265 disapproval and restriction of nunnery schools by the ecclesiastical authorities 270 What did the nuns teach? 274 Life of school children in nunneries 279 'Piety and breeding' 281
Division of the day by the Benedictine Rule 285
The Benedictine combination of prayer, study and labour breaks down 288
Dead routine 289
The monastic obligation to communal life, personal poverty 315
Private life and private property in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 331
Attitude of ecclesiastical authorities 336
Enclosure in the Benedictine Rule 341
The movement for the enclosure of nuns 343
Attempts to enforce enclosure in England 346
Attempts to regulate and restrict the emergence of nuns from their houses 353
The nuns wander freely about in the world 385
Conclusion 391
Visitors in the cloister are another side of the enclosure problem 394
The scholars of Oxford and Cambridge and the neighbouring nunneries 395
Regulations to govern the entrance of seculars into nunneries: certain persons not to be admitted 401 certain parts of the house and certain hours forbidden 402 unsuccessful attempts to regulate the reception of boarders 409
The nuns and political movements 419
Robbery and violence 422
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