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CH. xxii] FRANCE BURGUNDY 91taste was offended by their loud voices, their noisy feasts,their rank cookery, their habit of greasing their hair withrancid butter, and the fumes of onions and garlic fromtheir kitchens 1 .It is curious to find that it was among the descendants Burgundy&the homeof this jovial easy-tempered people that monasticism ofMonestablisheditself more firmly than in any other part western Europe. Yet so it was ;centresfrom the great religiousof Cluny, Citeaux, and Clairvaux the passion foran ascetic coenobite lifespread far and wide, and thousandsofas 1CLSmof convents obeyed the Cluniac or Cistercian rule inevery part of western Christendom.Monasticism is a product of the East, where the rule Easternof S. Basil was established in the 4th century, and atits first introduction into the west it was viewed with cismdisfavour. The funeral at Rome of Blaesilla, a youngnun who died it was said from excessive fasting, nearlycaused a popular riot in 384. The people, says S. Jeromecried " when will they drive this detestable race of monksfrom the town ?Why do they not stone them ? Whydo they not throw them into the river 2 ."It was not tillthe first half of the 5th century that monasticism spread,and reallyestablished itself in the west ;and then it did12Quid me ....Inter crinigeras situm catervas,Et Germanica verba sustinentem,Laudantem tetrico subinde vultuQuod Burgundio cantat esculentus,Infundens acido comam butyro.*******Felices oculos tuos et aures,Felicemque libet vocare nasum,Cui non allia,sordidaque cepaeRuctant mane novo decem apparatus.Carmen XII ad F. C, CatMllinum,Guizot, Civilization in France^ Lecture XIV.