"A Pitiful Thing"?: The Afterlife of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries in Early Modern Chronicles, ca. 1540-ca. 1640

Modern scholarship on the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-40) has paid little attention to how it was remembered by those who witnessed it or to the evolution of this memory in subsequent generations. This article explores the afterlife of the dissolution in early modern chronicles. It focuses...

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Main Author: Lyon, Harriet (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2018]
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 1037-1056
IxTheo Classification:KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBF British Isles
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
KDE Anglican Church
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B ANNALES (Book)
B STOW, John, ca. 1525-1605
B BRITISH history sources
B WRIOTHESLEY, Charles
B 1485-
B England
B HOWE, Edmund
B Monasteries
B Church History
B Collective Memory