Fisher of men : a life of John Fisher, 1469-1535 / Maria Dowling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowling, Maria, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.

Fisher, John.

Christian saints--England--Biography.

Christian saints.

England.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 218 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills [England] : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

John Fisher was central to the issues and dilemmas of the renaissance and the transformation in Tudor England. Active as a humanist, preacher, bishop, educationalist and controversial theologian, Fisher demonstrated that the rich life of the pre-reformation church as well as its problems in confronting the "blind and disordered desire" of Henry VIII. For Fisher. as for Thomas More, this resulted in execution on Tower Hill. This study focuses on Fisher's wide-ranging pastoral scholarly, literary and political activity which makes him a key figure in European religious and cultural history.

Contents:

1. Cambridge

2. The Humanist

3. The Bishop

4. The Preacher

5. Heresy

6. The Devotional Writer

7. The Dissident

8. The Cardinal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209) and index.

ISBN:

0333746708

0312223676

OCLC:

54545510