The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard
Title
The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard
Text Read
The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard
Author
Montalembert, Charles Forbes, comte de
Original Source
Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons, 1861
Digitized by
HathiTrust
Publication Date
1861
Date(s) of Reading
- 1861-07-06
- 1861-07-07
- 1861-07-09
- 1861-07-12
Evidence
1861-07-06: "6. Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work. George was very poorly all morning, and lay on the sofa behind me. In the afternoon we walked to see Nursie. Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening, read the "Monks of the West"." Diary 1861-1877 97
1861-07-07: "Sunday 7. Read the Monks of the West. In the afternoon went to the Zoological gardens. Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, the Spectator and Athenaeum. Played Beethoven with Charley. Busied myself with a plan of rational mnemonics in history." Diary 1861-1877 97
1861-07-09: "9. Finished the first vol. of "Monks of the West". Read Comte on the Middle Ages. In the evening a bad headache came on." Diary 1861-1877 97
1861-07-12: George Eliot to to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 12 July 1861. "When I received your Monday packet, I was fresh from six quarto volumes on the history of the monastic orders, and had just begun a less formidable modern book on the same subject -- Montalembert's "Monks of the West." Our reading, you see, lay in very different quarters, but I fancy our thoughts sometimes touched the same ground." GEL 3: 438
1861-07-07: "Sunday 7. Read the Monks of the West. In the afternoon went to the Zoological gardens. Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, the Spectator and Athenaeum. Played Beethoven with Charley. Busied myself with a plan of rational mnemonics in history." Diary 1861-1877 97
1861-07-09: "9. Finished the first vol. of "Monks of the West". Read Comte on the Middle Ages. In the evening a bad headache came on." Diary 1861-1877 97
1861-07-12: George Eliot to to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 12 July 1861. "When I received your Monday packet, I was fresh from six quarto volumes on the history of the monastic orders, and had just begun a less formidable modern book on the same subject -- Montalembert's "Monks of the West." Our reading, you see, lay in very different quarters, but I fancy our thoughts sometimes touched the same ground." GEL 3: 438
Citation
Montalembert, Charles Forbes, comte de, The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57271