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    Jul 28, 2021 3 minutes
    Edited by Kate Green

    Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution

    Jane Whitaker (Unicorn, £35)

    EARLY in the reign of Henry VIII, there were some 850 monastic houses situated throughout England and Wales. Their demise was effectively initiated by Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s, but it was the wholesale Henrician closures of 1536-40 that are today recognised as the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Apart from the religious and social upheaval, this critical episode within the English Reformation created a significant architectural divide. The King’s commissioners condemned all that was deemed ‘superfluous’, resulting

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