The Last office
Subtitle: 1539 and the dissolution of a monastery
By: Geoffrey Moorhouse
Publisher: Phoenix; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780753825754
Subjects: History; Monasticism and religious orders; Church history; Durham Cathedral
Description: "What happened to the monks, their orders, and the communities they served after Henry VIII's breach with Rome in 1536? Here, in The Last Office, Geoffrey Moorhouse dwells on the aftermath of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, drawing for his sources on material that has lain forgotten in the recesses of one of our greatest cathedrals."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ecclesiastical Map of Durham, 1535; title: Map of Durham Peninsula; title: I. Tenebrae; title: II. The Reason Why; title: III. A Prince Among Bishops; title: IV. The Thirtieth Prior; title: V. Substantial Poverty; title: VI. The Great Matter; title: VII. The Apparatus of Plunder; title: VIII. The Small Houses Fall; title: IX. The Furness Example; title: X. Buying Time; title: XI. A Great Violation; title: XII. A New Order; title: XIII. The End of an Era; title: XIV. The Iconoclast; title: XV. A Great Villain.