Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559

The English bishops played a crucial role in the process of Reformation in the sixteenth century, from the first arrival of continental Reformed thought to the virtual extinction of the office in 1559. This work has at its core the bishops' own understanding of the episcopate, drawn from their surviving writings and other contemporary discussions; such a study is key to understanding what became of the English Church of the middle ages and what it was to become under Elizabeth.

 When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border.

The friar's tale (canterbuty tale)

This story concerns a Summoner who is paid by a Bishop to summon sinners for Trial before the Church Court.

This particular Summoner has a team of spies and harlots who provide him with information concerning those living in the Parish, and the Summoner gathers this information to be used against them by the Church.  The Summoner blackmails the Parishioners to prevent him revealing the information to the Church Court.

Plastic Canvas:Easter Basket Village

Fill these 5 holiday baskets with Easter treats when you stitch this village on 7-count plastic canvas.Patterns include a Two-Story Manor, Victorian Cottage, Sweet Shoppe, Lil' White Church and a Country Boutique.

Your money or your life

In this book one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the lending of money for interest. Jacques Le Goff describes how, as the structure of economic life inevitably began to include financial loans, the Church refashioned its ideology in order to condemn the usurer not to Hell but merely to Purgatory.