The Last Days of the Smaller Monasteries in England

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ID10082035
AuthorsSybil M Jack (The University of Sydney, corresponding author), Sybil Jack
Year1970
Volume21
Issue2
Pages97-124
Publication date1970-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002204690004865x
OpenAlexW2073935341
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

The dissolution of the monasteries in England was a dramatic action which both at the time and since has captured popular imagination. A persisting myth pictures the monks turned out by the agents of Henry VIII departing, slowly chanting, into the snow-bound countryside which shrouded their later fate from human eyes. Historians, who have been equally drawn to the subject, have given the picture a different slant. The story of the suppression has been fitted into a wider background of fast-moving religious and secular change in the decade 1530 to 1540, and can be seen as one of a number of moves which were designed at once to strengthen the king's control over the Church and to improve his finances. By 1536, indeed, the religious were already accustomed to the passage of royal commissioners and had had the power of the crown brought forcibly home to them by a number of direct royal interventions in matters of internal monastic discipline

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