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Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530–1558
Mary C. Erler
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hardcover. This book provides fascinating studies of English religious men and women through their reading and writing during the turbulent period of the Dissolution. Num Pages: 211 pages, 5 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
In the years from 1534, when Henry VIII became head of the English church until the end of Mary Tudor's reign in 1558, the forms of English religious life evolved quickly and in complex ways. At the heart of these changes stood the country's professed religious men and women, whose institutional homes were closed between 1535 and 1540. Records of their reading and writing offer a remarkable view of these turbulent times. The responses to religious change of friars, anchorites, monks and nuns from London and the surrounding regions are shown through chronicles, devotional texts, and letters. What becomes apparent ... Read more
In the years from 1534, when Henry VIII became head of the English church until the end of Mary Tudor's reign in 1558, the forms of English religious life evolved quickly and in complex ways. At the heart of these changes stood the country's professed religious men and women, whose institutional homes were closed between 1535 and 1540. Records of their reading and writing offer a remarkable view of these turbulent times. The responses to religious change of friars, anchorites, monks and nuns from London and the surrounding regions are shown through chronicles, devotional texts, and letters. What becomes apparent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107039797
SKU
V9781107039797
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Ref
99-18
About Mary C. Erler
Mary C. Erler is a professor in the English department at Fordham University, New York and is the author of Women, Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England (Cambridge, 2002).
Reviews for Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530–1558
'Mary C. Erler's elegant examination of monastic reading and writing during the Dissolution revolves around six case studies representing different facets of religious life in early Tudor England. By drawing attention to their reading and especially their writing in the midst and aftermath of the Dissolution, Erler offers a more rounded picture of the regular clergy - as active participants ... Read more