A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 BY...

NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO., LIMITED. London: G. BELL & SONS, LIMITED. 1915 The system of double monasteries, or monasteries for both men and women, is as old as that of Christian monasticism itself, though the phrase "monasteria duplicia" [1] dates from about the C6. The term was also sometimes applied to twin monasteries for men; Bede uses it in this sense with reference to Wearmouth and Yarrow, while he generally speaks of a double monastery as "