A History of Nursing: The Evolution of Nursing Systems from the Earliest Times to the Foundation of the First English and American Training Schools for Nurses
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII RISE OP THE SECULAR ORDERS: THE BEGUINES. SANTO SPIRITO. OBLATES OF FLORENCE '""THE Benedictine monasteries, having reached 1 the height of their vigour and influence some five hundred years after their foundation, entered upon a long, slow period of decadence, which, while retarded here ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII RISE OP THE SECULAR ORDERS: THE BEGUINES. SANTO SPIRITO. OBLATES OF FLORENCE '""THE Benedictine monasteries, having reached 1 the height of their vigour and influence some five hundred years after their foundation, entered upon a long, slow period of decadence, which, while retarded here and there by favourable circumstances, was generally marked by formalism, loss of primitive zeal, and even, in some places, by the lapse of moral standards. In so far, at least, as the nursing orders are concerned, a new kind of monasticism sprang into being toward the twelfth century, which has been called the golden age of monasticism, as it was also the golden age of chivalry. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were marked by an irrepressible energy that found expression in voluntary association outside of the older and more stereotyped church orders. Of such free and spontaneous character were some of the most notable and successful nursing associations, for in that brilliant, chivalric, devout, but often cruel and superstitious age, nursing continued to present itself as a form of service ap VOL. I. 17. 'pealing most readily to the imagination and heart. Tuker and Malleson speak of the "moral miracle" that "took place in the uprising of women all over the world, forming themselves, at their own initiative, into congregations of workers-- the 'active orders.' " 1 By far the greatest number of nursing orders from now on arose not within, but without the Church, as lay or secular societies. It is true that, in comparison with what are now called secular associations, these mediaeval ones would seem to us even in their freest initial stages as strictly, even severely churchly, so wholly was religious ceremonial and' observance a part of...
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