| John Lingard - Anglo-Saxons - 1810 - 570 pages
...could not be removed : and with this view, some monastic legislators devised the plan of establishing double monasteries. In the vicinity of the edifice,...of the superior, and in the presence of witnesses. But the abbess retained the supreme controul over the monks, as well as the nuns : their prior depended... | |
| Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...monks, four deacons, and eight lay-brothers ; the lady-abbess controlling and superintending the whole. The mortified and religious life to which they had...the most solemn engagements, was supposed to render the mixed inmates of these convents superior to temptation, and free from the slightest suspicion of... | |
| Samuel Astley Dunham - Europe - 1834 - 382 pages
...the residence of a society of monks or canons; whose duty it was to officiate at the altar, and to superintend the external economy of the community....of the superior, and in the presence of witnesses. But ll,e abbess retained the supreme control over the monks as wel! as the nuns : their prior depended... | |
| Samuel Astley Dunham - Europe - 1834 - 368 pages
...the residence of a society of monks or canons ; whose duty it was to officiate at the altar, and to superintend the external economy of the community....render them superior to temptation : and to remove even th« suspicion of evil, they were strictly forbidden to enter the enclosure of the women, except on... | |
| John Lingard - Christian antiquities - 1851 - 338 pages
...could not be removed : and with this view, some monastic legislators devised the plan of establishing double monasteries. In the vicinity of the edifice,...temptation : and to remove even the suspicion of evil, but they were strictly forbidden to enter the enclosure of the women, except on particular occasions,... | |
| Nuns, Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna - Convents - 1852 - 392 pages
...could not be removed ; and with this view, some monastic legislators, devised the plan of establishing double monasteries. In the vicinity of the edifice,...of the superior and in the presence of witnesses. But the Abbess retained the supreme controul over the monks, as well as the nuns ; their Prior depended... | |
| Josephine M. Bunkley - Convents - 1855 - 358 pages
...building for the residence of a society of monks or canons, whose duty it was to officiate at the altars and superintend the external economy of the community....of evil, they were strictly forbidden to enter the inclosure of the women except on particular occasions, with the permission of the Superior, and in... | |
| 1884 - 418 pages
...and superintend the external economy of the community. The mortified and religious life to which they bound themselves by the most solemn engagements, was...of the superior, and in the presence of witnesses." No county in England possessed so many religious houses in the Middle Ages as Yorkshire, and no county... | |
| Georgiana Hill - Women - 1896 - 382 pages
...monks or canons, whose duty it was to officiate at the altar and superintend the external ceremony of the community. The mortified and religious life...of evil, they were strictly forbidden to enter the inclosure of the women, except on particular occasions, with the permission of the superior, and in... | |
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