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The dissolution of the monasteries : a new history /

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Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, James G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Monasticism and religious orders > England > History > 16th century.
Monasteries > England > History > 16th century.
England > Church history > 16th century.
Monasteries.
Monasticism and religious orders.
England.
1500-1599
Church history.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • I. The Legend of the Cloister
  • II. The Religious Profession
  • III. A Regular World
  • IV. The Tudor Reformation
  • V. The King's Commissions
  • VI. The Challenge of Conformity
  • VII. Punysshid, Subprest and Put Downe
  • VIII. Nothing Endid
  • IX. Changes of Habit
  • X. The Old World and the New.