Picture No | 10069527 |
Date | circa 3rd century ? |
Description | AN IMMORAL TRADE-OFF |
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In time of famine, a bigamist offers food if Church makes him a deacon, not liable to punishment, but the bishop refuses (in Wynkyn de Worde's 1495 edition 'Vitas patrum')
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Source | woodcut, reproduced in Dibdin, Typographical Antiquities (1810) volume two, page 48 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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