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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: thousand fates
    sub title: the afterlife of medieval monasteries in England & Wales
  name:
    name part: Taylor, Richard H.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: A Thousand Fates' explores the afterlife of medieval monasticism in England and Wales, a thousand years monasticism in England and Wales came to an abrupt end in the mid-sixteenth century with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. At its peak two hundred years earlier, many people chose the contemplative life, while the rich sought salvation through the foundation or embellishment of religious houses. Much of the nation's wealth was locked into these complexes through elaborate rebuilding, gifts of precious objects, property donations and flourishing libraries of rare books. Then in just four years all of the eight hundred plus houses were closed and ten thousand people dispersed with the monastic fortune liquidated and passed to the crown. Today we are left with echoes of a time dominated by an enclosed elite, their homes repurposed or derelict or obliterated. Some of these foundations still thrive as churches, schools, homes or tourist attractions. Others though have left little physical trace, the casual viewer ignorant of their existence. This book is not an account of why the monasteries closed or what happened to the people displaced. Instead it focuses on the monastic buildings and their numerous fates and brings life to their stories.
  note: Richard H. Taylor.
  note: Includes index
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
    geographic code: e-uk-wl
  subject:
    topic: Monasteries
    geographic: England
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Monasteries
    geographic: Wales
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Monasteries
  subject:
    geographic: England
  subject:
    geographic: Wales
  classification: NA350 .T39 2022
  classification: 726.70942
  identifier: 9781914414718
  identifier: 1914414713
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 220519
    record change date: 20221104072803.9
    record identifier: in00004726305
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng