A World Torn Apart: The Dissolution of the Monasteries Episodes
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Professor Suzannah Lipscomb unravels one of the most profound transformations in Tudor society, when faith and politics collided: the dissolution of the monasteries. Over just four years in the 1530s, Henry VIII dismantled the spiritual and cultural bedrock of medieval England. This was the most traumatic exercise of royal power since the Norman Conquest.
