A Monk’s-Eye View
Diarmaid MacCulloch, 10 March 2022
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History
by James G. Clark.
Yale, 649 pp., £25, October 2021,978 0 300 11572 7 Show More
by James G. Clark.
Yale, 649 pp., £25, October 2021,
Going to Church in Medieval England
by Nicholas Orme.
Yale, 483 pp., £20, July 2021,978 0 300 25650 5 Show More
by Nicholas Orme.
Yale, 483 pp., £20, July 2021,
“... were assured of a pension from the bureaucracy set up by Henry VIII and his details man and fixer, Thomas Cromwell. Abbot Hawford’s career was not over; he died seventeen years later as dean of Worcester Cathedral, also lately a Benedictine monastery. While abbot of Evesham, Hawford had been a loyal henchman of Cromwell’s, but as dean at ... ”