Note 11 — Chapter IX · THE MONASTIC MOVEMENT AND THE TWELFTH CENTURY RENASCENCE[11]

Besides the dry pages of Möller and Gieseler, reference can be made to Montalembert’s picturesque Monks of the West, and Maitland’s Dark Ages, while J. H. Newman’s Lives of English Saints tells the story of some of the monastic heroes with rare sympathy and power. An idea of the monastic life can be got from good biographies, such as Church’s Life of St. Anselm, or Morison’s Life of St. Bernard. Poole’s Illustrations of the History of Mediæval Thought, and Rashdall’s Universities of the Middle Ages (chap. ii. ‘Abelard and the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century,’ and chap. iv. §§ 1 and 2) give admirable accounts of the intellectual movements of the time. Hardwick’s History of the Christian Church in the Middle Ages is a succinct one-volume summary of general Church history.