John Cooper receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. “This house is rotten to the core,” snarls Jack Barak, Thomas Cromwell’s man of business, as he condemns the Benedictine ...
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – In 1535 there were around 850 monastic houses across England and Wales, by 1540 none remained. Shortly after his break with Rome, Henry VIII moved on the monastic ...
For almost 1,000 years, the English church grew up around its monasteries—a network of institutions that instructed the living, cared for the dying and prayed for the dead. Monasteries were locations ...
In this rich study, British historian Moorhouse (Great Harry's Navy) portrays the destruction of England's 650 Catholic monasteries and nunneries in the 1530s as a brazen smash-and-grab by a ...
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