For almost 1,000 years, the English church grew up around its monasteries—a network of institutions that instructed the living, cared for the dying and prayed for the dead. Monasteries were locations ...

In The Dissolution of the Monasteries, James Clark, a professor at Exeter University, builds up a huge mosaic of life on the eve of the Reformation, taken from letters and law cases, wills and account ...

This year marks the quincentenary of Henry VIII's accession to the English throne. To the mind of many, Henry's tumultuous rule stripped corrupt Catholicism of power and wealth in favour of England's ...

John Cooper receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. “This house is rotten to the core,” snarls Jack Barak, Thomas Cromwell’s man of business, as he condemns the Benedictine ...

In this rich study, British historian Moorhouse (Great Harry's Navy) portrays the destruction of England's 650 Catholic monasteries and nunneries in the 1530s as a brazen smash-and-grab by a ...

A priceless 700-year-old Bible 'dictionary' which gives a unique insight into the way nuns lived has gone on display for the first time. The Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie by the 12th century ...

A capacious, detailed, lively history of the monastery, its place in British life and how Henry VIII’s removal of religious houses was far from inevitable. Clark scours archives and literary texts for ...

The consequences of Henry’s decision to suppress England’s monastic institutions were far-reaching, and changed the face of society forever. The effects of the Dissolution of the Monasteries can still ...

Even the Mersey ferry at Birkenhead was run by the local priory. In The Dissolution of the Monasteries, James Clark, a professor at Exeter University, builds up a huge mosaic of life on the eve of the ...

“This house is rotten to the core,” snarls Jack Barak, Thomas Cromwell’s man of business, as he condemns the Benedictine monastery of St Donatus to closure and oblivion. Based on Dissolution, the 2003 ...