Christian Brotherhoods

The aim of this book is to give in outline an account of men's societies produced by Christian influence, whatever their denominational relations, and with reference to their avowed purposes and results rather than to the distinction of lay or clerical. Partial Contents: first church brotherhoods; ascetics and their societies; Benedict to Cluny; Mendicants; military orders; mystical brotherhoods; Lollards and brothers of the common life; guilds and secret societies; Brothers of Pity; austere and missionary orders; educational brotherhoods; modern Roman lay; early Protestant; Anglican; auxiliary associations; democratic brotherhoods of Britain; interdenominational; recent church brotherhoods; laymen's unions, leagues and clubs; men and Christianity.