The Benedictine combination of prayer, study and labour breaks down 288 Dead routine 289 The reaction from routine 290 (1) carelessness in singing the services 291 (2) _accidia_ 293 (3) quarrels 297 (4) gay clothes 303 (5) pet animals 305 (6) dancing, minstrels and merry-making 309 CHAPTER VIII. PRIVATE LIFE AND PRIVATE PROPERTY The monastic obligation to (1) communal life, (2) personal poverty 315 The breakdown of communal life: division into _familiae_ with private rooms 316 The breakdown of personal poverty 322 (1) the annual _peculium_ 323 (2) money pittances 323 (3) gifts in money and kind 324 (4) legacies 325 (5) proceeds of a nun's own labour 330 Private life and private property in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 331 Attitude of ecclesiastical authorities 336 CHAPTER IX. FISH OUT OF WATER Enclosure in the Benedictine Rule 341 The movement for the enclosure of nuns 343 The Bull _Periculoso_ 344 Attempts to enforce enclosure in England 346 Attempts to regulate and restrict the emergence of nuns from their houses 353 The usual pretexts for breaking enclosure: (1) illness 361 (2) to enter a stricter rule 363 (3) convent business 367 (4) ceremonies, processions, funerals 368 (5) pilgrimages 371 (6) visits to friends 376 (7) short walks, field work 381 The nuns wander freely about in the world 385 Conclusion 391 CHAPTER X. THE WORLD IN THE CLOISTER