academic amusement
Meant to post about this before now, but didn't get round to it, apparently. In my dissertation research I came across the following quote:
"This dispute [between different Catholic factions in early modern England] was, on the surface, a series of arguments about the patterns and institutions of clerican authority via which English Catholics were governed from Rome - arguments which were often characterised by the heights of supreme bitchiness of the kind to which only middle-aged clerics can aspire."
Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England, p251.
"This dispute [between different Catholic factions in early modern England] was, on the surface, a series of arguments about the patterns and institutions of clerican authority via which English Catholics were governed from Rome - arguments which were often characterised by the heights of supreme bitchiness of the kind to which only middle-aged clerics can aspire."
Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England, p251.