TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,James G.
TI  - The dissolution of the monasteries: a new history 
SN  - 9780300115727
U1  - 941.052 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Monasteries
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1509-1547
KW  - Church history
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Henry VIII, 1509-1547
N2  - "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 1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last men and women who lived in England’s monasteries before the Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII’s subjects were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in the lives of the English people."--


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