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Reading and writing during the dissolution : Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530-1558 / Mary C. Erler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781107417281
  • 1107417287
  • 1139626574
  • 9781139626576
  • 9781107421103
  • 1107421101
  • 9781316601938
  • 1316601935
  • 1139893025
  • 9781139893022
  • 1107425115
  • 9781107425118
  • 1107422949
  • 9781107422940
  • 1107419905
  • 9781107419902
  • 1107418534
  • 9781107418530
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading and writing during the dissolutionDDC classification:
  • 271.00942/09031 23
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  • BR756 .E75 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Looking backward? London's last anchorite, Simon Appulby (1537) -- The Greyfriars Chronicle and the fate of London's Franciscan community -- Cromwell's nuns: Katherine Bulkeley, Morpheta Kingsmill, and Joan Fane -- Cromwell's abbess and friend: Margaret Vernon -- "Refugee Reformation": The effects of exile -- Richard Whitford's last work, 1541.
Summary: 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 is the variety of positions that English religious men and women took up at the Reformation and the accommodations that they reached, both spiritual and practical. Of particular interest are the extraordinary letters of Margaret Vernon, head of four nunneries and personal friend of Thomas Cromwell.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)622106

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Looking backward? London's last anchorite, Simon Appulby (1537) -- The Greyfriars Chronicle and the fate of London's Franciscan community -- Cromwell's nuns: Katherine Bulkeley, Morpheta Kingsmill, and Joan Fane -- Cromwell's abbess and friend: Margaret Vernon -- "Refugee Reformation": The effects of exile -- Richard Whitford's last work, 1541.

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 is the variety of positions that English religious men and women took up at the Reformation and the accommodations that they reached, both spiritual and practical. Of particular interest are the extraordinary letters of Margaret Vernon, head of four nunneries and personal friend of Thomas Cromwell.

English.