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Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England

English · Hardback

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Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.

List of contents










Introduction; 1. 'No news but the abbeys shall be down': reform, surrender, and suppression in the 1530s and 1540s; 2. 'Worthy of lasting memory': the dissolution in the early modern historical imagination; 3. 'Raised out of the ruins': monastic sites in the early modern topographical imagination; 4. 'Many pretty odd tales': monks, monasteries, and the sin of sacrilege in local tradition; Conclusion.

About the author

Harriet Lyon is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. She has published articles in the Historical Journal, the Sixteenth Century Journal, and Reformation.

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