Dissolution of the Monasteries
Not Just the Tudors
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The Balance of Finance and Theology in the Medieval Period
There were two kinds of monastic house in England in the period. There were monasteries and there were friaries, which are a 13th century innovation. Friars raised their money from begging or from castanation from the wealthy. If you become a monk or nun, you're devoting yourself to God, to prayer,. You undertake to obey a austere set of spiritual practices aimed at falling away bodily imperatives and devoting your soul to the worship of God.
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