Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

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search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. Today we are going to talk about

the disillusion of the monasteries. Very short. So this, the disillusion of the monasteries is like a

massive topic, right? Books, many, many books have been written about this. So we're not going to

dig in deep. But we're going to do the short little skimming of it. And I have done fuller

episodes on this through the years, especially back in 2017 when it was the 500th anniversary

of the 95 Theses. I did a whole big series on the Reformation. I did a full episode on the

dissolution. I've done lots on Cromwell on the Disillusion.

So if you want to dig in deeper to that, I'll put links to some of those episodes around below.

Who knows? So we're going to talk today just a little bit about some of the famous priories and monasteries that were dissolved, as well as what happened to those monks and nuns whose livelihood was taken away.

Between 1536 and 1540, more than 800, 800 religious houses across England were closed, stripped and scattered.

It was one of the most dramatic transformations in English religious life. And it wasn't just about breaking with Rome. Henry VIII wanted power, he wanted wealth, and Cromwell delivered

both. Monasteries were more than places of prayer. They were hospitals. They were libraries,

schools, homes, hotels for weary travelers. Their

destruction wasn't a nice, clean little thing. It was loud. It was public. It was brutal.

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