The Religious Orders in England

Table of Contents

Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I. The Tudor Scene:
1. The reign of Henry VII
2. Some monastic activities
3. The Cistercians
4. The Premonstratensians
5. The friars in the early sixteenth century
6. Sixteenth-century visitations
7. Monastic personalities
8. Humanism at Evesham
9. William More, prior of Worcester, 1518–36
10. Butley and Durham
Part II. The Gathering Storm:
11. Erasmus
12. Reform and suppression under Wolsey
13. European precedents
14. Acceptance of the royal supremacy
15. Elizabeth Barton
Part III. Suppression and Dissolution:
16. Before the dissolution
17. The end of the Observants
18. Syon
19. The London Charterhouse and its sister houses
20. The economy of the monasteries in 1535
21. Servants, almsgiving and corrodians
22. The visitation of 1535–6
23. The Act of Suppression and the case for the defence
24. The dissolution of the lesser houses
25. The Northern Rising
26. The last phase
27. The attack on the greater houses
28. The suppression of the friars
29. The cankered hearts
30. The transformation of the buildings
31. The new cathedrals and colleges
32. The disposal of the lands
33. The treatment of the dispossessed
Part IV. Reaction and Survival:
34. The Marian restoration
35. The old and the new
36. Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

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