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[tree_and_leaf]

• 22:12 Wondering why the twitter search function never works when I want it. #
• 22:27 Am enjoying Springsteen's "Devils and Dust" album, which I'm listening to for the first time. #
• 23:02 Have just found a mediaeval anecdote about hungover priest hearing confession (from "A Boke of merrie tales"). People are people, whenever. #
• 11:01 I'm not exactly a disestablishmentarianist, but Portillo's defence of establishment #
• 11:02 makes me uneasy: tinyurl.com/898a4y #
• 11:02 Disestablichmentarian, I think I meant... #
• 11:06 Oh dear *fails at typing* #
• 18:14 Reading Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. Flash would be the acme of guilty pleasure if he wasn't so well done that one feels less guilty. #
• 19:14 Off to a friend's for dinner. And a wild night it is, too. #

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I am completely against establishment, for a number of reasons to do with the dignity of the Church and its effectiveness in society. I think that the temptation to make the State a patron or protector of the Church must be resisted at all costs.

On another theme: you know, of course, who I am. If you visit my LJ, you will find a wholly harmless question I would like as many fanfic authors as possible to answer. Please?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Have just found a mediaeval anecdote about hungover priest hearing confession (from "A Boke of merrie tales"). People are people, whenever.

Is that the "...Now tell me what thou didst when thou hadst stolen the pot" one?

[tree_and_leaf]

... yes. Well done!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

# 23:02 Have just found a mediaeval anecdote about hungover priest hearing confession (from "A Boke of merrie tales"). People are people, whenever. #

This sounds amusing. I can't seem to track down "A Boke of Merrie Tales" through Google--any suggestions where I might look for it?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I think it got published as "A Tudor Jest-Book", or something like that.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'll try to remember to have a look for it.

[tree_and_leaf]

I came across the anecdote in Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars, an excellent and extremely readable history of the late mediaeval church and of the reformation as it played out in parishes in England. It also has an extremely snarky index.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent.

My mother got me a copy of The Stripping of the Altars for Christmas. I've not managed to read as much of it as I'd like to have done, but I'm glad to know I can read that particular anecdote without having to hunt through the stacks of my uni's library or through Early English Books Online or similar.