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Dissolution of the Monasteries  The ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, in Somerset, date from 1184. Legend says that Joseph of Arimathaea built the first church on this site, but the first archaeological evidence is for an abbey built by the Saxons in around 708. This was destroyed by fire in 1184 and rebuilt, but the buildings fell into disrepair as a result of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and are now ruined. | Closure of the monasteries of England and Wales from 1536 to 1540 and confiscation of their property by Henry VIII; see England: history 1485–1714, Henry VIII and the split with Rome. The operation was organized by Thomas Cromwell and affected about 800 monastic houses with the aim of boosting royal income. Most of the property was later sold off to the gentry. |
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| Nostalgia," the name we now give to the yearning for the irrecoverable past, was not yet a word in 1549, but, as many scholars have emphasized, it had a constant place in Renaissance thought--more particularly after the traumatic break with the customary past entailed by the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries. The Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries and Chantries reduced the clergy both in numbers and in role to their mainly preaching, teaching and secular caring function. But "Protestantism did not rake place without a struggle," Zell writes (184); from the prophesies of Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent, to the agitation produced by the dissolution of the monasteries and the orders to destroy traditionally Catholic objects of worship, the reformation inspired some resistance among laymen, clergy, and gentry with connections to conservative factions in Henry's court. |
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