In the Garden of Iden

“And now the news. And it’s grim, we regret to say: today England’s first official victim of the Counter-Reformation was burnt at Smithfield. John Rogers, Canon of Saint Paul’s, longtime Reformation agitator and translator of the Matthew bible, died in the presence of his wife and children in a ceremony lasting twenty-five minutes. Your news team had an operative on the scene and, Diotima, can you tell us about...