[Iscool]

This novel is engrossing for the matrix of experience it recovers, not only because of the window it opens on a violent, buried past. But it goes without saying that it has no purpose to entertain.

A book of fiction...Not written for entertainment...What's its purpose then...To fan the flames of a new Inquisition???

[verga]

What's its purpose then...To fan the flames of a new Inquisition???

From your lips to God's ear....soon.

[cloudmountain]

A book of fiction...Not written for entertainment...What's its purpose then...To fan the flames of a new Inquisition???

I think it's to remind us that at one time English Catholics were a force. Shame that they are gone. There'll be nothing new between English and American Catholics. That time is long past.
This is ALL because Henry VIII couldn't get a SON out of his SIX wives.
The six women to hold the title "queen consort" of King Henry VIII were, in order:

Catherine of Aragon (annulled; died while detained under guard at Kimbolton Castle); Anne Boleyn (annulled and later executed); Jane Seymour (died days after giving birth, widely believed to be following birth complications); Anne of Cleves (annulled); Catherine Howard (annulled and later executed); Catherine Parr (widowed).

Talk about selfish, self-serving and egotistical, Henry was top dog of them all.