Entertainment / Literature / Summoner: Medieval law courts were divided into civil courts that tried public offenses and ecclesiastical courts that tried offenses against the church. Summoners were minor church officials whose duties included summoning offenders to appear before the church and receive sentence. By the fourteenth century, the job became synonymous with extortion and corruption because many summoners would take bribes from the individuals summoned to court. Chaucer satirized a summoner in The Canterbury Tales.
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Entertainment / Literature / Church Summoner: Medieval law courts were divided into civil courts that tried public offenses and ecclesiastical courts that tried offenses against the church. Summoners were minor church officials whose duties inclu MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Scatology: Not to be confused with eschatology, scatology refers to so-called 'potty-humor'--jokes or stories dealing with feces designed to elicit either laughter or disgust. Anthropologists have noted that sca MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Marriage Group: A term coined by George L. Kittredge in 1912 to describe a specific set of stories in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The marriage group includes 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' 'The Clerk's Tale,' 'The Mercha MORE