
Medieval manuscript makers
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries
i have a whole chapter about er near disasters, so times when manuscripts have very nearly been destroyed. And the final, the epilogue of the book, i talk about the reformation, which was not a great time for england's textual heritage. But this was a, you know, an awful moment in which e huge amounts of monastic property was destroyed. Many er books were destroyed. I mean, there's the story about em when durham cathedral was er was dissolved,. how catherine whittington took the stoops and used them for storing salted fish and beef in her kitchen. It's an example of how the movable property of former monastic institutions was
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