The Religious Orders in England

Dom David Knowles

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511560668

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Dom David Knowles

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2010
Print publication year:: 1979
Online ISBN:: 9780511560668
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511560668

Subjects:: British History after 1450, History, Religion, Church History

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

List of Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

Part One - The Tudor Scene
pp 1-2

Chap. I - The reign of Henry VII
pp 3-14

Chap. II - Some monastic activities
pp 15-27

Chap. III - The Cistercians
pp 28-38

Chap. IV - The Premonstratensians
pp 39-51

Chap. V - The friars in the early sixteenth century
pp 52-61

Chap. VI - Sixteenth-century visitations
pp 62-86

Chap. VII - Monastic personalities
pp 87-99

Chap. VIII - Humanism at Evesham
pp 100-107

Chap. IX - William More, prior of Worcester, 1518–36
pp 108-126

Chap. X - Butley and Durham
pp 127-138

Part Two - The Gathering Storm
pp 139-140

Chap. XI - Erasmus
pp 141-156

Chap. XII - Reform and suppression under Wolsey
pp 157-164

Chap. XIII - European precedents
pp 165-172

Chap. XIV - Acceptance of the royal supremacy
pp 173-181

Chap. XV - Elizabeth Barton
pp 182-192

Part Three - Suppression and Dissolution
pp 193-194

Chap. XVI - Before the Dissolution
pp 195-205

Chap. XVII - The end of the Observants
pp 206-211

Chap. XVIII - Syon
pp 212-221

Chap. XIX - The London Charterhouse and its sister houses
pp 222-240

Chap. XX - The economy of the monasteries in 1535
pp 241-259

Chap. XXI - Servants, almsgiving and corrodians
pp 260-267

Chap. XXII - The visitation of 1535–6
pp 268-290

Chap. XXIII - The Act of Suppression and the case for the defence
pp 291-303

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