The monks of the West
Subtitle: from St. Benedict to St. Bernard
By: by the Count de Montalembert
Publisher: Thomas B. Noonan
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Notes: Original French edition published Paris, 1860-77, v. 6-7 edited by Aurélien de Courson.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.; title: Dedication.; title: Introduction.; title: book I. The Roman Empire after the peace of the church.; title: book II. Monastic precursors in the East.; title: book III. Monastic precursors in the West.; title: book IV. St. Benedict.; title: book V. St. Gregory the Great.  Monastic Italy and Spain in the sixth and seventh centuries.; title: book VI. The monks under the first Merovingians.; title: book VII. St. Columbanus.  The Irish in Gaul and the colonies of Luxeuil.; title: book VIII. Christian origin of the British Isles.; title: v. 2. book IX. St. Columba, the apostle of Caledonia, 521-597.; title: book X. St. Augustin of Canterbury and the Roman missionaries in England, 597-633.; title: book XI. The Celtic monks and the Anglo-Saxons.; title: book XII. St. Wilfrid establishes Roman unity and the Benedictine order, 634-709.; title: book XIII. Contemporaries and successors of St. Wilfrid, 650-735.; title: book XIV. Social and political influence of the monks among the Anglo-Saxons.; title: book XV. The Anglo-Saxon nuns.  Appendix.