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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Abbreviations used in the Notes | |
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| The Call of the Desert | |
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| The desert hermits | |
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| St Pachomius and the cenobitical life | |
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| St Basil | |
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| The desert tradition transmitted to the West | |
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| The first Western monks | |
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| The Rule of St Benedict | |
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| St Benedict and his biographer | |
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| The Rule and its sources | |
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| The monk's profession according to the Rule | |
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| The monk's life according to the Rule | |
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| Wandering Saints and Princely Patrons | |
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| Columbanus in Gaul | |
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| Early Irish monasticism | |
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| Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility | |
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| The double monasteries of Gaul | |
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| The mixed rule in Gaul and Spain | |
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| England and the Continent | |
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| Roman and Celtic foundations | |
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| Wearmouth and Jarrow | |
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| The Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent | |
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| The Emperor and the Rule | |
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| The religious motives for endowment | |
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| Social convenience | |
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| Public policy | |
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| The Rule under imperial supervision | |
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| Collapse and dispersal | |
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| The Age of Cluny | |
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| The rise of Cluny | |
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| The Cluniac empire | |
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| The Cluniac ideal | |
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| Gorze and the German revival | |
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| The English revival of the tenth century | |
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| The Cloister and the World | |
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| The daily round | |
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| Monastic tasks and their distribution | |
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| Recruitment | |
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| The social and economic role | |
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| Feudal obligations | |
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| Lay patrons | |
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| Relations with bishops and secular clergy | |
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| The cloister and the schools | |
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| The Quest for the Primitive | |
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| The orders of hermits | |
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| The Rule and the desert | |
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| The Carthusians | |
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| The canons regular | |
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| The Premonstratensians | |
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| The Cistercian Model | |
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| The truth of the letter | |
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| Growth and recruitment | |
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| The constitution of the order | |
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| The general chapter | |
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| Criticism and dilution | |
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| The New Monasticism Versus the Old | |
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| St Bernard and Peter the Venerable | |
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| Reformers and traditionalists | |
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| A New Kind of Knighthood | |
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| The Templars | |
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| The Hospitallers | |
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| Decline and fall | |
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| Sisters or Handmaids | |
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| Frauenfrage--the question of the sisters | |
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| St Gilbert and the Order of Sempringham | |
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| The Cistercian nuns | |
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| A new experiment: the Beguines | |
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| The Friars | |
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| The social context | |
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| New evangelists | |
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| Franciscan origins | |
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| The Order of Preachers | |
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| The mission of the friars | |
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| Student orders | |
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| The complaint of the clergy | |
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| The place of the nuns | |
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| Other Mendicant Orders | |
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| Epilogue: The Individual and the Community | |
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| Glossary | |
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| A Cistercian abbey ground plan | |
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| Index | |