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1 The ‘Remnaunt’ of the Reformation 1 The ‘Remnaunt’ of the Reformation
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2 John Bale: ‘The thynges dyssypated were dyuerse’ 2 John Bale: ‘The thynges dyssypated were dyuerse’
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3 John Aubrey: Reading Wrack and Ruin 3 John Aubrey: Reading Wrack and Ruin
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3 Butterflies and Binders’ Shops: Reading Monastic Waste
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Published:February 2024
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Chapter 3 attends to the manuscript waste that flooded the English landscape after the dissolution of the monasteries in the middle of the sixteenth century, and tells the stories of two antiquarians and how they thoughtfully apprehended such waste. The first is the reformer John Bale who fantasized about the possibility of wasting the popish books that were suddenly released from their monastic confines, but, at the same time, hoped to collect and preserve the historical chronicles that might prop up Protestant narratives of the English past. In the face of the indiscriminate waste practices of the sixteenth century, Bale’s encounters with fragments of waste in binders’ and grocers’ shops came instead to be absorbed into his eschatological understanding of how the world was rapidly decaying and nearing its end. The second part of the chapter considers the continued material and imaginative presence of monastic waste in seventeenth-century England, focusing on John Aubrey and the national, local, and personal history he tells through the lens of discarded and repurposed materials. Conceiving of these materials as the flotsam in the shipwreck of time, Aubrey reads in waste emblems of antiquarian labour and his own identity as an antiquarian.
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