Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III

Résumé du livre

Thomas de Lisle, Bishop of Ely from 1345 to 1361, was not a typical English churchman. As John Aberth shows, De Lisle was leader of a local gang of thugs and bullies who terrorized both the poor and the rich of East Anglia and assisted the bishop in this extensive, unholy activities, including arson, kidnapping, extortion, theft, and murder.