Devotion and Dissolution
The story of the lost abbey of the Tarrant Valley is told by Harry Bucknall
Published in December ’21
Hutchins reported that these barns may well mark the site of the Abbey
LIFE in the Middle Ages was simple because, as in the 1970s when only three television channels existed, there were fewer choices: no football, no internet, no Facebook. Religion was the instrument by which monarchs ruled and clerics ministered. Taking the fear of God as its core, Catholicism dominated the year, set out the month, governed the week and ruled the day. Pay your tithes, obey the Ten Commandments and observe the Sabbath or burn in Hell.
How times have changed, and to us it…
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