Lutheran parsonages were intended to be exempla of domestic propriety, but evidence suggests that clergy wives often struggled to maintain their status or stay out of local squabbles.
Theirs was a world of learning, of scholarly disputation, and hard graft in practice, as well as often a world of edgy competition, squabbles and anxiety.
A number of others were ruined through legal battles with each other or through squabbles over inheritance and partition sparked by the escalating commercial values of their holdings.
Andrew certainly finds the current version: the perennial 'processual v. postprocessual' squabble, unrewarding, recognizing the merits of both sides.
Problems also arose from establishing parties 'from above', without the essential base of a mass movement concerned to criticise society, and worlds away from the squabbling trade union movements.
The struggle was fundamentally about political predominance, though it often took the form of squabbles over education and the use of language.
Representing diverse ethnic groups, they lacked common goals or visions and were thus plagued by internal rivalry and squabbles.
We don't talk about political parties that are squabbling all the time, splitting off from one another.
