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The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries Paperback – June 1, 2012

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: BlueBridge; Reprint edition (June 1, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933346523
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933346526
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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The Cost of Survival
By Stephanie A. Mann on April 14, 2009
Format: Hardcover
This book serves as a companion to Geoffrey Moorhouse's history of the Pilgrimage of Grace, the northern reaction to the Dissolution. There is much to admire in this narrative of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, told through the story of Durham Cathedral and its Benedictine Priory. At the very end of the book, however, Moorhouse adopts a strange attitude about the changes that took place at Durham Cathedral because of the English Reformation, as though they really don't matter. I still give the book four stars, because he provides such an excellent overview of the monastic life, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the Henrician reformation.

The first chapter is evocative, describing the Last Divine Office chanted by the monks of Durham before their way of life is drastically changed, their number reduced, and their monastery surrendered to Henry VIII.

Moorhouse continues, examining the importance of St. Cuthbert, the honor paid to the Venerable Bede, and the beauty and order of the Benedictine Rule. Moorhouse introduces the last Roman Catholic Prince Bishop of Durham, Cuthbert Tunstall, and the last Roman Catholic Lord Prior of the Monastery, Hugh Whitehead, and describes their respective roles.

Moorhouse also very effectively describes how Henry VIII became the Supreme Head and Governor of the Church in England, displacing the Pope from that role by bullying the Convocation of Bishops with fines and other punishments. He describes how Henry's conservative approach, maintaining Catholicism without the Pope, conflicted with Thomas Cromwell's and Thomas Cranmer's Lutheran reforming tendencies (guess who won?).Read more ›
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
An excellent look at the Reformation from the perspective of the losers.
By Peter S. Bradley on July 29, 2012
Format: Paperback
The Last Office by Geoffrey Moorhouse examines a bit of history usually overlooked by historians and the popular media - the experience of the Catholic victims of the Protestant Reformation. Use a search tool to web search "persecution + catholics," you will end up with links to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. The impression often left by most history books is that Europe was waiting for the Reformation with bated breath and that once it was on offer, Europeans moved forward into their destiny, except for those areas where the reactionary Catholic Church prevented them from realizing their destiny. What is largely missing from most accounts is any sense of the social dislocation that the Reformation must have caused to those who were quite content with their religion unreformed.

Moorhouse fills in this hole by examining the Dissolution of the Monasteries from the perspective of one of the oldest and most powerful and prestigious of the monasteries, the Benedictine Priory of St. Cuthbert's in Durham ("Durham.") Moorhouse divides his book between the history and working life of Durham and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; both are very interesting and well done.

Durham housed the remains of St. Cuthbert and Venerable Bede, the father of English Church history. Durham had roots pre-dating the Norman Conquest, but after the Conquest, the Normans built the imposing structure of the Durham Cathedral by which the English monarchs consolidated power in their northern regions. Durham Cathedral was the nominal seat of the Bishop of Durham who uniquely exercised temporal power as the "Prince Bishop" in a "County Palatine."

Moorhouse spends substantial time on the development of the architecture of the cathedral, the cult of St.Read more ›
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Walking in the Cloister
By David G. Robinson on August 21, 2010
Format: Hardcover
British historian Moorhouse offers a detailed "play by play" account of the terrible years for British monasticism in the late 1530's with the dissolution by Henry VIII. One of the focal points for this study is Durham Cathedral/Monastery, which was left intact and continues today as an Anglican house of worship. Durham Cathedral today also offers one weekend per year for anyone willing to reserve their place, to come and celebrate the past by learning about the way of St. Benedict and Benedictine spiritual life of the Durham monastery prior to when Henry VIII took power. Anyone who has visited the great ruined skeletal abbeys of England, such as Fountains Abbey, Rievaulx Abbey and Whitby Abbey in northern England, knows the travesty of the English "reformation" under Henry VIII's leadership. I was told by a tour guide on an historical tour of York, England, that it took 200 years after the dissolution of the monasteries in late 1530's for England to recoup/replace the hospital beds lost in those fateful three years under Henry VIII. The monastery was a place of societal stability, hospitality, free health-care, literacy and spirituality. Sure, many of the abbey's had become glutted with power, wealth and centuries of spiritual treasures. Sure, English Benedictine spirituality had wandered away from the original vision and practice of their founder, St. Benedict. Yet, there is something haunting in those cloister bones laying out in the parks and heaths of the English countryside, as though dinosaurs once roamed the landscape of the shire, but were struck down by some St. George seeking treasure and lasting fame. The true lasting treasure of Benedictine life could not be taken from England or from the French after the troubles and closing of many French monasteries during the French revolution.Read more ›
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