Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.

The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic fabric

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and us

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key