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search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. So today we are talking about

how the tutors saw their own history and in fact how the tutors rediscovered Anglo-Saxon

England. So let's get right into it. So the tutor period was of course transformative

for England and that's why it remains so

popular. That's why we keep talking about it. There was the shifts in governance and the rise of the

middle class, the printing press, the Reformation, so many things. One of those things was the

rediscovery of Anglo-Saxon England, a revival that played a crucial role

in shaping the English national identity and the religious landscape of the time. Central to this

cultural renaissance were figures like Matthew Parker, who was Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury,

and Lawrence Knowle, whose scholarly efforts resurrected a nearly forgotten language and its literary treasures.

So, this all started under Henry VIII when he was dissolving the monasteries.

This was a seismic policy carried out between 1536 and 1541,

which dismantled monastic institutions that had been integral to English religious life for centuries.

As these religious houses were dissolved, their vast libraries, positories of medieval manuscripts,

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