FOREIGN

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY.

1st series

VOLUME IX.

Gieseler's Compendium of Ecclesiastical History.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET;

LONDON: SEELEY & CO. ; WARD & CO. ; JACKSON & WALFORD; J. GLADDING,
DUBLIN: JOHN ROBERTSON.-NEW YORK: WILEY & PUTNAM.

BOSTON; CROCKER & BREWSTER.-PHILADELPHIA: J. W. MOORE.

MDCCCXLVIII.

OF

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

BY

DR JOHN C. L. GIESELER,

CONSISTORIAL COUNSELLOR AND ORDINARY PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY
IN GÖTTINGEN.

FOURTH EDITION REVISED AND AMENDED.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY

SAMUEL DAVIDSON, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN THE

LANCASHIRE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET.

LONDON HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND Co.; DUBLIN: JOHN ROBERTSON.

MDCCCXLVIII.

2 Nov. 1893

From the Library of

Rev. S. LONGFELLOW, 83

PRINTED BY
M'COSH, PARK, AND DEWABS,

DUNDEE.

CONTENTS.

FOURTH CHAPTER.

HISTORY OF MONACHISM.

§ 95. Origin and history of Monachism in the East,

96. Monachism in the West,

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