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.

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The Noble Knight: Gender Ambiguity and Queer Aesthetics in the Portrait of Doña Catalina de Erauso Known as “La Monja Alférez” (The Lieutenant Nun), Catalina de Erauso defied every expectation of early modern gender and class. Fleeing a convent in his teens, assumed male identity,
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