While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged. In the following century, former monasteries were eventually adapted to a variety of uses: royal palaces and country houses, [...]
Covering the period from 700 to 1600 AD from the reconnection with a Christian-Roman tradition in the seventh century to the break from Rome in the sixteenth after the Reformation, this volume is suitable to the study of British Art from secondary school to PhD level.[...]