Chapter V

Valens, Emperor, fails to stop
flight from Rome, 127.
Vaughan, on Bernard's reforms,
195; on the need of reformation,
402.
Virgins, _see_ Marriage.
Virgil, Jerome's fondness for, 95;
Mabie on reading of, 408.
Vivaria, literary work in monastery
at, 152.
Voltaire, on the monks, 388.
Vows, monastic, 61; irrevocable,
66, 112; usual history of,
174; of the military orders,
198; the fundamental, 375;
the passing away of, 423. _See_
Poverty, Celibacy and Obedience.
Vulgate, Jerome, 85.

W

Waddington, on the hermits, 34;
on conscience and method of
monks, 390.
War, monks incite to, 401.
Watch-dogs of the Church, a term
applied to the Dominicans, 249.
Wealth, Christ's doctrine of, 377;
not in itself an evil, 379; its
true value, 405; compatible
with Christianity, 420.
White, on the theology of the
monks, 416.
Whiting, Richard, Abbot of
Glastonbury, 315.
Widows, _see_ Women and Marriage.
Wilfred, St., his monastic labors, 167.
William of Aquitaine, 177.
William of Amour, 250.
William of Orange, 394.
Wolsey, Cardinal, 294, 308.
Women, welcome call of monks, 81;
Kingsley on same, 82;
Juvenal on Roman women, 82;
Jerome's influence on, 86, 96;
monasticism and, 106;
hermit life unsuited to, 107;
effect of corrupt society on, 107,
no; distinguished by mercy, in, 350;
compared with monks, 111;
married life of, in Rome, 112;
influence of Ambrose upon, 126;
regulation of Guigo concerning monks and, 190.
Wyclif, attacks the friars, 253, 337;
spirit of, affects monasticism, 295, 429.