12) §2. Decrease of scholarship. III. The Dissolution of the Religious Houses. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the reformation, one in nine of all graduates seems to have been a religious. At Oxford, the Benedictines alone had four colleges, the Augustinians two and the Cistercians...

13) missions. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...almost entirely in the hands of the religious orders. The great missionary orders are the Benedictines (which evangelized medieval Germany), Franciscans (especially...

14) monasticism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...served as centers. In Italy, St. Benedict (6th cent.) began the work from which sprang the Benedictines and the more moderate monastic rule that gradually became...

15) §4. David Hume: Influences on his Historical work. XII. Historians. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Historical study was being eagerly pursued in France. Among the religious orders, the Benedictines were preparing Le Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France,...

16) §1. Destruction of books and of opportunities for study. III. The Dissolution of the Religious Houses. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...was that of the homes of study which the religious houses, especially those of the Benedictines, provided for all who leaned that way. The classical renascence had...

17) §4. University and Bishop. XV. English and Scottish Education. Universities and Public Schools to the Time of Colet. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...been anticipated that, on the return of brighter days, scholarship would emerge with the Benedictines. Within limits this, indeed, had been the case. The Benedictines...

18) 2. The Papacy. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...the vernacular for the laity; centralization of several religious orders (such as the Benedictines, for whom each house was and still is autonomous); the restriction...

19) §11. The Beginnings of the Colleges; The Black Death. XV. English and Scottish Education. Universities and Public Schools to the Time of Colet. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...existing colleges, besides Gloucester Hall (now Worcester), which was erected by the aroused Benedictines for students selected by their order, and the dissolved...

20) §1. Alexander Barclay. IV. Barclay and Skelton. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of Gold. In this letter, Barclay is spoken of as the black monk ; but, later, he left the Benedictines for the stricter order of the Franciscans in Canterbury. There...