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This book is not about religion, although I talk about religion. It's about religious tolerance and the fight for human rights; the first battlefront in public discourse about human rights.
Freedom of religion was the first base upon which other understandings of freedom have been built upon.
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This is the story of 16th century Europe, and the political earthquake that was protestantism. The overarching historical narrative unfolds around the lives of fictional characters who might have lived in this historic period.
Follett's literary reenactment explores the intricacies of the Protestant Reformation through a cast of strategically diverse characters, whose stories span across multiple continents, nations, and cities. Each character is an important harbinger of larger historical trends. Within the masterfully established geo-political reality, each of their decisions serve to gradually reveal their distinct personalities and temperaments, belief systems and ideologies, and cultural identities.
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The real enemies, then as now, are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else—no matter what the cost.
Reminiscent of our current geo-political climate. The extended cycles of history.
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- religious freedom
- History of religion
- British History
- Human rights
- Catholicism
- Tudors
- Tudor England
- Identity
- Religious reformation
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Longue durée
- Protestantism
- Religious tolerance
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Mary Tudor
- Historic Fiction
- Ken Follett
- Virgin Queen
- British Monarchy
- Annales School
- England in the 1500s
- European History
- History of political thought
- Historic Retelling
- History
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