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The Queen Who Became a Professional Writer
Marguerite de Navarre is the sister and wife of kings. While coping with being an agent of her brother and navigating the religious turmoil, she still found the time to become a bestselling author and perhaps the “first modern woman.” Sources Cholakian, Patricia F. and Rouben C. Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance (Columbia…
The Actual First Bible Translated into English (And The Man Who Died For It)
An Oxford grad and private tutor has a dream of making the first English Bible translated directly from Hebrew and Greek. Unfortunately, his ambition becomes a matter of life and death once his scholarly endeavors become just another front in the war to decide Europe’s religious future. Sources Daniell, David. The Bible in English: Its…
The Drop-Out Who Destroyed a Society
In 1519, Europeans made their first diplomatic contact with an urbanized empire in the Americas—and, within a few years, that empire will no longer exist, in no small part because of a failed law student from Spain. Sources Cortés, Hernán. Letters from Mexico, trans. A.R. Pagden (Orion Books, 1971). Florentine Codex, vol. 9, trans. Arthur J.O.…
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