500 Years Ago…”Let Us Find the Truth!” (1)

A lone candle lit the darkened room where a mother held her newborn son. “Little Jean,” she whispered. She softly sang a French lullaby and kissed his head. She had heard the world was just beginning to change. The effect of the invention of the printing press was already being felt. Art and culture were developing in other lands. Education was becoming more important, even to households less than rich like theirs. Yet for the most part, time seemed to go on as it always had, here in Noyon,...