Bibliograph

The last divine office, Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries, Geoffrey Moorhouse

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The last divine office, Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries, Geoffrey Moorhouse

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last divine office

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

262886733

Responsibility statement

Geoffrey Moorhouse

Sub title

Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries

Summary

Exploring the enormous upheaval caused by the English Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, this vivid new history draws on long-forgotten material from the recesses of one of the world's greatest cathedrals-the great Benedictine Durham Priory, now the Anglican Durham Cathedral. Once a bastion of the Benedictine monks in the north of England, the Priory was dissolved after nearly 500 years on the orders of King Henry VIII in 1539, in his quest to separate the church in England from its headquarters in Rome. This illuminating guide to religious history and its social and political contexts, seen through the arches of one of England's most celebrated cathedrals, examines the devastating economic and spiritual consequences of the Dissolution, revealing how one of history's most effective and chilling apparatus of plunder and ruin erased the orders of monks and nuns that had served some 650 monastic religious houses in England and Wales

Table Of Contents

Ecclesiastical map of Durham, 1535 -- Plan of the monastery -- Map of Durham Peninsula -- Tenebrae -- The reason why -- A prince among bishops -- The Thirtieth Prior -- Substantial poverty -- The Great Matter -- The apparatus of plunder -- The small houses fall -- The Furness example -- Buying time -- A great violation -- A new order -- The end of an era -- The iconoclast -- A great villain

Target audience

adult

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