English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries |
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Geoffrey Baskerville
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1842125885
Pub: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Pub date: 2002-10-17
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 776347
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A classic account, still highly readable (0/0 people found this helpful)
Reprint of a classic account from 1937 of the state of the monasteries and nunneries just prior to their dissolution under Henry VIII. Baskerville demonstrates, with a wealth of evidence from primary sources, just how inextricably enmeshed into the social fabric the religious institutions were, and therefore why so many people depended on them for a living in so many ways. But he also ruthlessly exposes the ignorance, corruption, venality and sheer ordinariness of many of the monks and nuns, abbots, abbesses and their retinues. The work concludes with an interesting analysis of what became of the dispossessed, highlighting how, to a remarkable degree, they reintegrated into the social and religious systems that replaced their religious houses in the half-century or so after the dissolution.
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