Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England
Published on 6. October 2021
304 pages
978-1-009-03481-4 (ISBN)
Description
The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic fabric of early modern England. It was also profoundly important in shaping contemporary historical consciousness, the topographical imagination, and local tradition. Memory and the Dissolution is a book about the dissolution of the monasteries after the dissolution. Harriet Lyon argues that our understanding of this historical moment is enriched by taking a long chronological view of the suppression, by exploring how it was remembered to those who witnessed it and how this memory evolved in subsequent generations. Exposing and repudiating the assumptions of a conventional historiography that has long been coloured by Henrician narratives and sources, this book reveals that the fall of the religious houses was remembered as one of the most profound and controversial transformations of the entire English Reformation.
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'Lyon's astute use of sources, traditional and material, has resulted in a fascinating and valuable contribution to Reformation history.' Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson, readingreligion.orgMore details
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English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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File size
6,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-009-03481-4 (9781009034814)
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Content
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.
