The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales - Hugh Willmott
Concluding Remarks
The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales - Hugh Willmott
Hugh Willmott [+]
University of Sheffield
Hugh Willmott is Senior Lecturer in European Historical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.
Description
Here the overlapping themes of the earlier chapters are brought together to argue that many of the assumptions made about the purely destructive effects of the Dissolution are now hard to sustain. The archaeological evidence presents a much more complex picture of the diverse afterlife that the majority of the monasteries experienced, one that unfolded for decades after their initial closure in the 1530s.