AILRED COMES TO RIEVAULX 1
ST.BENEDICT AND HIS RULE FOR MONKS 4
THE WHITE MONKS 9
THE BUILDING OF RIEVAULX 12
HOW AILRED LIVED AT RIEVAULX 24
DAILY WORK AT RIEVAULX 32
HOW AILRED BECAME ABBOT OF RIEVAULX 42
THE STORY OF FOUNTAINS ABBEY 49
MORE ABOUT MONKS AND MONASTERIES IN ENGLAND 54
The different kinds of monks 54
Monastery buildings 57
The monks' rules 62
How monks made beautiful books 68
Entertaining visitors 74
Some stories of monks good and bad 75
HOW DO WE KNOW? 81
THINGS TO DO 84
GLOSSARY 88