Mr Craig Harline: 2 books
A Bishop's Tale
Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This absorbing book takes us back to the busy, colorful world of a Netherlandish Catholic bishop and his flock during the age of Reformation. It is drawn from a rare journal, one of many kept by Mathias Hovius from 1596 to 1620 while he was Archbishop of Mechelen (part of modern Belgium). Elegantly written,...
The Burdens of Sister Margaret
Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent; Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints-of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her-led to her banishment from the convent on two occasions....