This volume opens with a survey of monastic life and activities in
the early Tudor period, which throws new light on the fortunes of
the Cistercian abbeys and on the influence upon the monks of the
new humanist education. Chapters are devoted to Bishop Redman's
visitations of the white canons, to the rural pursuits of Prior
More of Worcester, to the friars ranged for and against the New
Learning, and to the Carthusians; there are also a number of
character sketches of notable abbots and others. There follows a
review of the changing religious climate: of Wolsey's attempts at
reform, of the all-perspective influence of Erasmus and of the
career of Elizabeth Barton. The economic state of the monasteries
is discussed as a prelude to the sombre story of the Suppression,
illuminated by rare gleams of heroism. The fate and after-careers
of the religious are treated in full from the record sources; there
are chapters on the aftermath in Mary's reign and the linking with
modern Benedictines, and an epilogue looks back over six centuries
of English monasticism.
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