The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales - Hugh Willmott
New Landscapes of Leisure
The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales - Hugh Willmott
Hugh Willmott [+]
University of Sheffield
Hugh Willmott is Senior Lecturer in European Historical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.
Description
To date, developments within the wider monastic precinct have received comparatively little consideration academically. Nonetheless, it is clear that new secular owners often expended as much energy developing new landscaped gardens as they did creating houses. This chapter provides a review of this process, emphasising its continuous and ever evolving nature. It concludes by offering a caution against the simplistic reconstruction of static ‘monastic’ and ‘post-Dissolution’ phase landscapes.