Tonight, Devon and I went to see the movie about Anne Boleyn and her sister Mary, The Other Boleyn Girl. A fair retelling. Except for the somewhat glaring error that she did not operate alone. It placed too much weight on Anne and her family's personal ambition. That rather ignores the absolute tide of change: medieval Rome was dealt a death blow by Humanism. And the Age of the Renaissance and Reason was about to begin.
Like the Woodstock of the 1960's this was a brief period of flowering where people believed in the nobility of the individual and did not suck up to the powers of popes, were not slaves to dead ideas, and dared to imagine they did not need heaven.
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