Forecasting Follies 2024
Elizabeth Barton (1506-1534) was a wildly popular prophetess and nun known as “The Holy Maid of Kent” during the English Reformation. As a teenager, she began claiming to have received divine revelations and predicting the future. Early on, her alleged prophetic utterances were mostly about heresy…
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