The monks of the West
Subtitle: from St. Benedict to St. Bernard
By: by the Count de Montalembert
Contributors: United Theological College, Aberystwyth
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 515
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders; History; Middle Ages; Church history
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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 1. Origin of the work; title: 2. Fundamental character of monastic institutions; title: 3. Of the true nature of monastic vocations; title: 4. Services rendered to Christendom by the monks; title: 5. Happiness in the cloister; title: 6. Charges against the monks; title: monastic wealth; title: 7. Decline; title: 8. Ruin; title: 9. The true and false Middle Ages; title: 10. Of the fortune of this book; title: Book 1: The Roman Empire after the peace of the church; title: Book 2: Monastic precursors in the East; title: Book 3: Monastic precursors in the West.