The last divine office : Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries
Exploring the enormous upheaval caused by the English Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, this vivid new history draws on long-forgotten material from the recesses of one of the world's greatest cathedrals-the great Benedictine Durham Priory, now the Anglican Durham Cathedral. Once a bastion of the Benedictine monks in the north of England, the Priory was dissolved after nearly 500 years on the orders of King Henry VIII in 1539, in his quest to separate the church in England from its headquarters in Rome. This illuminating guide to religious history and its social and political contexts, seen through the arches of one of England's most celebrated cathedrals, examines the devastating economic and spiritual consequences of the Dissolution, revealing how one of history's most effective and chilling apparatus of plunder and ruin erased the orders of monks and nuns that had served some 650 monastic religious houses in England and Wales
Nonfiction
xxvi, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9781933346182, 9781933346526, 1933346183, 1933346523
262886733
Ecclesiastical map of Durham, 1535
Plan of the monastery
Map of Durham Peninsula
Tenebrae
The reason why
A prince among bishops
The Thirtieth Prior
Substantial poverty
The Great Matter
The apparatus of plunder
The small houses fall
The Furness example
Buying time
A great violation
A new order
The end of an era
The iconoclast
A great villain
Originally published: The last office. Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008
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