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
- A lifelong vocation for Benedictines/Cistercians
- 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
- Supported poor/ cared for sick/elderly
- 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
- Louth (Linconshire) worried about destruction of new Church spire
- Important role in spiritual life
- **Caused the most resentment**
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