A very interesting piece, which I missed at the time, regarding just how far Queen Elisabeth’s nascent pluralism did (or, in this case, did not) go.

Queen Elizabeth I is reported to have stated that she did not wish to “make windows into men’s souls.” It is not uncommon for this piece of folk wisdom to be found in films such as Shekhar Shapur’s…

Read it all: +Robinson and an Elizabethan apocryphon

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