Harriet Lyon (University of Cambridge)

Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This book offers a new perspective on the English Reformation, through an analysis of how the dissolution of the monasteries was remembered.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781009014236
• ISBN-10: 1009014234
• Artikelnr.: 69074112

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.