The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History Author: James Clark Retail Price: $35.00 Our Price: $21.99 Save: 13.01 (37.17%) Availability: In Stock        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. Similar Items you may enjoy! Schools for the Lord's Service: A History of the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine Monasteries 1855-2023 Author: Jerome Oetgen Our Price: $61.99 Corrodies in the English Monasteries Author: Howard Morris Stuckert Our Price: $9.90 Corrodies in the English Monasteries Author: Howard Morris Stuckert Our Price: $27.90 Extern Sisters in Monasteries of Nuns Author: Dismas W. Bonner Our Price: $56.25

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