Subgroup within a larger confessional community with a distinctive high-religiosity lifestyle and clear membership

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A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.

Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations seculieres de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont esté establies jusqu'à present; contenant ... Les vies de leurs fondateurs & de leurs reformateurs: avec des figures qui representent tous les differens habillemens de ces ordres & de ces congregations ... / [Anon].

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the gardens of the convent. Coloured line engraving.

Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.

Creak Priory, Norfolk, England: ruins. Etching by Saml. & Nathl. Buck, 1738, after himselves.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris. Lithograph by Delpech after Arnout.

St. Vincent's Hospital, New York. Coloured wood engraving.

Saint Camillus de Lellis rescuing lives and offering shelter from the flooding Tiber, Rome. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the front of the hospital. Engraving by J. Redaway, 1820, after F. Nash.

Platearius, Matthaeus (d. 1161)

The monastic order in England : a history of its development from the times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 / [David Knowles].

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Fra Francesco dal Bosco da Valdobbiadene, detto il castagnaro (1564-1640) e la prattica dell'infermiero / Claudio Bevilacqua.

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Monasticism and religious orders

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Platearius, Matthaeus (d. 1161)

The monastic order in England : a history of its development from the times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 / [David Knowles].

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the front of the hospital. Engraving by J. Redaway, 1820, after F. Nash.

Fra Francesco dal Bosco da Valdobbiadene, detto il castagnaro (1564-1640) e la prattica dell'infermiero / Claudio Bevilacqua.

Monasticism and religious orders

Images from the collections

Images referencing Monasticism and religious orders

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Platearius, Matthaeus (d. 1161)

The monastic order in England : a history of its development from the times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 / [David Knowles].

Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the front of the hospital. Engraving by J. Redaway, 1820, after F. Nash.

Fra Francesco dal Bosco da Valdobbiadene, detto il castagnaro (1564-1640) e la prattica dell'infermiero / Claudio Bevilacqua.

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