A Monk’s-Eye View
Diarmaid MacCulloch, 10 March 2022
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History
by James G. Clark.
Yale, 649 pp., £25, October 2021,978 0 300 11572 7 Show More
by James G. Clark.
Yale, 649 pp., £25, October 2021,
Going to Church in Medieval England
by Nicholas Orme.
Yale, 483 pp., £20, July 2021,978 0 300 25650 5 Show More
by Nicholas Orme.
Yale, 483 pp., £20, July 2021,
“... in the new and more radical Reformation promoted in mainland Europe by rogue clerics such as Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli. Wolsey’s dissolutions went ahead: 29 mostly small monastic houses, nothing on the scale of Henry VIII’s later programme, but still a model for what came next. In short: monasteries into colleges. This is where Clark’s ... ”