Monasteries were among the institutions of the Catholic Church swept away during the French Revolution.

Monasteries were again allowed to form in the 19th century under the Bourbon Restoration.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Catholic Church property and land was appropriated to the new Church of England, and monasteries ( including the one at Glasnevin ) were forcibly closed and fell into ruin.

Monasteries and episcopal seats were shrewdly awarded to elites who supported the dynasty.

There were considerable losses of manuscripts as a result of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.

In 1220, Becket's remains were relocated from this first tomb to a shrine, in the recently completed Trinity Chapel where it stood until it was destroyed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King Henry VIII.

His shrine was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but, unusually, his relics survived and are still interred at the site ( although they were also disinterred in the 19th century, when his wooden coffin and various relics were removed ).

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, any remains of a monument or crypt were destroyed.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the city's priory, nunnery and three friaries were closed.

Evesham Abbey and the site of de Montfort's grave were destroyed with the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century.

The Cistercians were adversely affected in England by the Protestant Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, the French Revolution in continental Europe, and the revolutions of the 18th century, but some survived and the order recovered in the 19th century.

The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII, and were acquired in the early 17th century by Sir Robert Cotton from Thomas Walker, Clerk of the Parliaments.

The cathedral ceased to be an abbey during the Dissolution of the Monasteries when all religious houses were suppressed.

They too were buried in Faversham Abbey ; all three tombs are now lost, as a consequence of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Oxford and Cambridge were predominantly supported by the crown and the state, a fact which helped them survive the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 and the subsequent removal of all the principal Catholic institutions in England.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England took place in the political context of other attacks on the historic institutions of Western Roman Catholicism which had been under way for some time, many of them related to the Protestant Reformation in Continental Europe ; however, the religious changes in England under Henry VIII and Edward VI were of a different nature from those taking place in Germany, Bohemia, France, Scotland and Geneva.

Accordingly Parliament enacted the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act in early 1536, relying in large part on the reports of " impropriety " Cromwell had received, establishing the power of the King to dissolve religious houses that were failing to maintain a religious life ; and consequently providing for the King to compulsorily dissolve monasteries with annual incomes declared in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of less than £ 200 ( of which there were potentially 419 ); but also giving the King the discretion to exempt any of these houses from dissolution at his pleasure.

Its dissolution was made lawful by the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act and the lands of the abbey were granted to lay owners.

Monasteries, nunneries, priories were closed and the property taken by the crown ( see Chronicle of the Expulsion of the Grayfriars ).

* During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, many monastic libraries were destroyed.

After the dissolution of the Monasteries the East end of the church fell into disrepair, but the local townspeople were granted the nave as a parish church.

Changes were made at the Dissolution of the Monasteries when the Percy family took control.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all monastic manors were seized by King Henry VIII.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, several religious communities formed in Continental Europe for English Catholics.

Many convents and monasteries were destroyed, and extensive seizures of church property formed a welcome addition to his impoverished exchequer ( this act was precisely simulatenous with the similar Dissolution of the Monasteries undertaken by King Henry VIII of England ).

According to one tradition, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries his body was thrown into the nearby River Soar, although other evidence suggests that a memorial stone was visible in 1612, in a garden built on the site of Greyfriars.

At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and its surrender on 5 December 1539 the income was £ 2, 100 annually.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries impinged relatively little on English parish church activity.

White acquired buildings on the east side of St Giles ', north of Balliol and Trinity Colleges, which had belonged to the former College of St Bernard, a monastery and house of study of the Cistercian order that had been closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

These cottages are the most substantial surviving part of Gloucester College, Worcester's predecessor on the same site: this was a college for Benedictine monks, founded in 1283 and dissolved with the Dissolution of the Monasteries in about 1539.

This was not a purchase on behalf of the society and after a five year delay, it was transferred under the will of Denys in 1516 to the Carthusian House of Jesus of Bethlehem ( Sheen Priory ), which remained the Society's landlord until 1539, when the Second Act of Dissolution led to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and passed ownership of the Inn to the Crown.

To give thanks for his victory, Alfred founded a monastery, Athelney Abbey, on the Isle in 888, which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII in 1539, when the value of the rubble was put at £ 80.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries of the 16th century, on its surrender to the king in 1540, the abbey was plundered and demolished by the townsfolk.

* One of the few Russian Orthodox Monasteries in America is located on Vashon Island.

He was at Evesham at the time the abbey was surrendered on 27 January 1540 in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Monasteries carried on a tradition of garden design and intense horticultural techniques during the medieval period in Europe.

However, by the time Wilton Abbey was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII of England, its prosperity was already on the wane — following the seizure of the abbey, King Henry presented it and the estates to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( in the 1551 creation ) in c. 1544.

When the abbey was seized on behalf of Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was assessed to be earning in excess of £ 175 annually in rents and tithes.

The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England and the last Abbot Richard Whiting ( Whyting ) was hung, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor in 1539.

About 1549 he pulled down an old Inn of Chancery and other houses that stood on the site and began to build himself a truly imposing residence, making liberal use of the other nearby buildings including some of the chantries and cloisters at St. Paul's Cathedral which were demolished at the behest of Somerset and other leading Protestant nobles as part of the ongoing Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Cecily Bodenham, the last abbess, surrendered the convent to the commissioners of King Henry VIII on 25 March 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act of 1536, on the orders of Henry VIII, resulted in St Mary's Abbey being dissolved and its buildings demolished in 1537.

Today, this monastery is part of the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl, which was made a World Heritage Site in 1994.

The town is home to one of the monastery complexes associated with the Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl World Heritage Site.

In 1994, the complex became part of the Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl World Heritage Site.

Although painted monkeys still lurk in the pavilion, the name Monkey Island stems from the Old English Monks Eyot, i. e., Monks ' Island, after those monks residing at Amerden Bank, a moated site near Bray Lock on the Buckinghamshire bank of the river, as part of the Merton Priory from 1197 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The oldest transcription of folk songs in all of Greece can be traced to the 17th century, when songs in the rizitika type ( see below ) were " recorded " by monks at Iviron and Xyropotamos Monasteries on Mount Athos.