Recycling and reinvention in Reformation England: Medieval religious textiles in Tudor homes and families, c. 1540 - c.1603

The closure of hundreds of churches, chapels and chantries between 1536 and 1549 dispersed countless medieval textiles and other artworks accrued over centuries past. Many of them, and the textiles especially, were preserved, gifted or sold into private ownership to be placed in an entirely different social, cultural and confessional environment.…