What are the motifs in The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory?

Religious Freedom is sn idea that plays a major part in the whole novel. A backdrop to the events of the story is the conflict between the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Church of Rome. The Protestant Reformation didn't first begin in England, but was a whole European-wide movement that was centered around the Bible being able to be read by the common man and not written in Latin, as well as demands that the ultimate religious authority not be the Pope but rather the common elected leaders of men.