CHAPTER VIII

. PRIVATE LIFE AND PRIVATE PROPERTY

The monastic obligation to (1) communal life, (2) personal poverty 315

The breakdown of communal life: division into _familiae_ with private rooms 316

The breakdown of personal poverty 322 (1) the annual _peculium_ 323 (2) money pittances 323 (3) gifts in money and kind 324 (4) legacies 325 (5) proceeds of a nun's own labour 330

Private life and private property in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 331

Attitude of ecclesiastical authorities 336

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