Scipio quam genuit, Pauli fudere parentes, Gracchorum soboles, Agamemnonis inclyta proles, Hoc jacet in tumulo, Paulam dixere priores, Euxtochii genetrix, Romani prima senatus, Pauperiem Christi et Bethlehemitica rura secuta est. [28] In his preface to the _Commentary on Sophonius_. [29] For an exhaustive account of the lives and achievements of St. Jerome and his noble friends, Paula and Eustochium, the reader is referred to _L'Histoire de Sainte Paule_, by F. Lagrange, Paris, 1870, and _Saint Jerome, La Societe Chretienne a Rome et l'Emigration Romaine en Terre Sainte_, by A. Thierry, Paris, 1867. Cf. also _Woman's Work in Bible Study and Translation_, by A. H. Johns in _The Catholic World_, New York, June, 1912. [30] See _Histoire de Sainte Radegonde, Reine de France_, in Chap. XX, par Em. Briand, Paris, 1897. [31] _Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum_, Lib. IV, Cap. 23. [32] _The Monks of the West_, Book XI, Chap. II. [33] Vol. I, pp. 46 and 49, New York, 1871. [34] Op. cit., Book XI, Chap. II. It will interest the reader to know that Caedmon has a place among the saints in the _Acta Sanctorum_ of the Bollandists. See the special article on him in Vol. II, p. 552, under the caption of "_De S. Cedmono, cantore theodidacto_." [35] _Woman Under Monasticism._ Chapter IV, Sec. 2, by Lina Eckenstein, Cambridge, 1896. In this chapter is an interesting account of the Anglo-Saxon nuns who were among the correspondents of Boniface. [36] The reader will recall Chaucer's account in the _Canterbury Tales_ of the wife of the well-to-do miller of Trumpyngton: "A wyf he hadde y-comen of noble kyn; She was y-fostred in a nonnerye. There dorste no wight clepen hir but 'Dame;' What for hire kynnrede and hir nortelrie, That she had lerned in the nonnerie." --_Reeve's Tale._ [37] Pp. 78, 79, London, 1897. [38] _History of European Morals_, Vol. II, p. 369, New York, 1905. [39] _Henry VIII and the English Monasteries_, London, 1895. [40] _The English Historical Review_, July, 1888. Another recent writer affirms without hesitation that "Hroswitha has earned a place apart in the Pantheon of women poets and writers. She alone in those troublous times of the tenth century recalls to our minds the existence of dramatic art; her name, indeed, deserves to be rescued from oblivion and to become a household word." _Fortnightly Review_, p. 450, March, 1896. [41] _Histoire de l'Education de Femmes en France_, Tom. I, p. 72 et seq. par Paul Rousselot, Paris, 1883. A certain jurisconsult of the thirteenth century, one Pierre de Navarre, expressed the sentiment of many of his contemporaries when he wrote the following paragraph: