Monastic Records and the Dissolution
A Tudor Revolution in the Archives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11474149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 480-497 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European History Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-6914 • E-ISSN: 1461-7110 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0265691416648262 |
| OpenAlex | W2410781638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Administrative reform in the 1530s amounted, in Professor Geoffrey Elton’s words, to a ‘Tudor revolution in government’. The Dissolution of the monasteries and the confiscation of their assets played a major part in this. The need to value, survey, document and exploit the monastic estates transformed government record-keeping, necessitating the creation of new offices – such as the Court of Augmentations – and the adoption of new practices and an expanded bureaucracy. The paper traces the response of the bureaucrats to the challenges to record-management resulting from the Dissolution, and the subsequent history of the monasteries’ records of landholding, a task complicated by the activities of later government archivists
Bureaucracy · Computer security · Confiscation · Exploit · Government (linguistics · Library science · Political science · Politics · Records Management · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |