The impact of the dissolution of the monasteries/Valor Ecclesiasticus on local communities

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  • The impact of the dissolution of the monasteries/ Valor Ecclesiasticus on local communities
    • Important role in spiritual life
      • A lifelong vocation for Benedictines/Cistercians
        • Promoted poverty, chastity and obedience
        • Provided support - prayed for the shortening of purgatory
        • Cistercians known for their sheep-farming
      • Served remote communities
      • Controlled by foreign Catholic order s (France/Spain/Italy)
        • threat of Catholic invasion
    • Social and economic role
      • Especially in the North, even into c16th
      • 'good works'
        • Supported poor/ cared for sick/elderly
          • Lifeline to areas like the North during social/economic hardship
      • Centres of education/learning
        • Pre printing press, used for copying/preservation
      • Employment
        • Unskilled agriculture
        • Skilled craftsmen
      • Landlords
        • Farmers leased land from monks
        • Huge source of local wealth/power
          • Representative of wealth/corruption of the Church
    • Destruction of monastic buildings (lead/stained glass etc) created fear over further destruction of local parish churches
      • Louth (Linconshire) worried about destruction of new Church spire
        • Spread to Yorkshire/elsewhere
  • **Caused the most resentment**

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