CHAPTER VI. THE MONASTIC REVIVAL OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

§ 1. The new Monastic Orders 184

§ 2. Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century 201

§ 3. The Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham 213

§ 1. Art Industries generally 222

§ 2. Herrad and the ‘Garden of Delights’ 238

§ 1. St Hildegard of Bingen and St Elisabeth of Schönau 256

§ 2. Women-Saints connected with Charity and Philanthropy 285

§ 1. Mystic Writings for Women in England 305

§ 2. The Convent of Helfta and its Literary Nuns 328