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THE LAST DIVINE OFFICE:
Henry VIII and the Dissolution
of the Monasteries
In The Last Divine Office historian Geoffrey Moorhouse explores the enormous upheaval and devastation caused by the English Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, drawing on material preserved at Durham Cathedral, which, before the Dissolution, was the Benedictine Durham Priory. He recreates in vivid detail what life was like in a major 16th century monastery and explores the longstanding economic and spiritual interdependence between monasteries and the surrounding civilian populations that was changed forever when a quarrel between king and pope gave birth to the Church of England.
Hardcover, 304 pages
B&W illustrations
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