Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-316-51640-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

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. It was also profoundly important in shaping contemporary historical consciousness, the topographical imagination, and local tradition. Memory and the Dissolution is a book about the dissolution of the monasteries after the dissolution. Harriet Lyon argues that our understanding of this historical moment is enriched by taking a long chronological view of the suppression, by exploring how it was remembered to those who witnessed it and how this memory evolved in subsequent generations. Exposing and repudiating the assumptions of a conventional historiography that has long been coloured by Henrician narratives and sources, this book reveals that the fall of the religious houses was remembered as one of the most profound and controversial transformations of the entire English Reformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyon, Harriet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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