This book investigates the intellectual career of Bishop John
Fisher (1469-1535), the early sixteenth-century bishop of Rochester
and victim of Henry VIII's Reformation, whose numerous writings
included one of the most influential refutations of the century of
Martin Luther. Richard Rex investigates the life and work of Fisher
the scholar from his arrival in Cambridge in the 1480s to his
prolonged literary campaign against Henry's divorce from Catherine
of Aragon in the years 1527-31. He traces the intellectual
influences of scholasticism and humanism in his education and his
subsequent career, and the way in which Fisher attempted to cope
with the tensions between the authority of the church and the
critical implications of humanist study. The heart of the book is
concerned with Fisher's most important works, his treatises against
Luther and Oecolompadius in the 1520s. Rex draws attention to the
perceptiveness and originality of his critique of Protestant
doctrines, and attempts to restore one of the greatest
intellectuals of early sixteenth-century England to his rightful
place as a central figure in the scholarship of the age.
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