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Author Erler, Mary C., 1937- author.

Title Reading and writing during the dissolution : Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530-1558 / Mary C. Erler
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.
SUBJECT Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 fast
Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558 fast
Subject Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century
Christian literature, English -- Sources
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Books and reading
Christian literature, English
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267
Subject England
Genre/Form Church history
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013000792
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