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The 17th century, the time of the Civil War and the Commonwealth, was the most perilous period in the history of the English cathedral. The story of all 26 great English cathedrals during the 17th century, this book describes the way they were attacked, desecrated and abolished as institutions, only managing to survive until the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. It reviews these and later events and examines other aspects of cathedral history - buildings, clergy, finances, music and literature.

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Lehmberg's assiduous prosopography will win him gratitude from fellow historians. Ecclesiastical History 199709 A very solid achievement of excellent scholarship - massive, extensive, even relentless ... [Lehmberg] has searched out archival evidence all over the realm and bases his conclusions on a thorough, personal inspection of the cathedrals of England... The story is beautifully told and proves fascinating. -- Sir Geoffrey Elton

Lehmberg's assiduous prosopography will win him gratitude from fellow historians. A very solid achievement of excellent scholarship - massive, extensive, even relentless ... [Lehmberg] has searched out archival evidence all over the realm and bases his conclusions on a thorough, personal inspection of the cathedrals of England... The story is beautifully told and proves fascinating.

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Stanford Lehmberg is Professor of History in the University of Minnesota, USA, and one of the most eminent American historians of British history. His numerous books include biographies of leading Tudor Englishmen and the fundamental study of English cathedrals during the Reformation period: The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485-1603 (Princeton, 1988)

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