Article: The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries.(Brief article)(Book review)

The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Geoffrey Moorhouse. BlueBridge (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9333-4618-2

In this rich study, British historian Moorhouse (Great Harry's Navy) portrays the destruction of England's 650 Catholic monasteries and nunneries in the 1530s as a brazen smash-and-grab by a cashstrapped King Henry and his crafty vicargeneral, Thomas Cromwell. After a beady-eyed inventory of assets by Cromwell's lawyer-accountants, Moorhouse notes, religious houses were seized or semivoluntarily "surrendered" to the Crown by terrified abbots, their occupants dispersed, their estates auctioned off, ...

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