When we think about Court Fools, the mind immediately associates them with jesters. We might think of capers, jokes and, eventually, physical disability.
This is, however, a concept that was consolidated in Elizabethan times, and there’s a portion of Early Reinassance in which another kind of fool was mostly popular: the innocent.
Today we take a look at this kind of concept, as one of the historical innocents at the Tudor court features in the flash-backs of my Gothic Novel. Those of you in the higher tier will be able to read about this character in the three-parts chapter that will be published this week on Patreon.

Pride Month
Pride Month 2025: Story of the Day
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi: the Caliph’s Daughter Who Loved Women and Lived Free Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (Córdoba 1001 – 1091), daughter of a deposed Umayyad caliph, was not merely a noblewoman—she was a poet, provocateur, and cultural icon in the intellectually radiant courts of Al-Andalus. Refusing
No Comments