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English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (1469-1535): Sermons and Other Writings, 1520-1535

By John Fisher

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2002
ISBN
0198270119, 9780198270119, 9780191520730
Open Library ID
OL9765556M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2467492 bytes)
Pages
482\482
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Bishop John Fisher was a scholar and theologian of European reputation, famous as a preacher and author of the first sermon-sequence to be printed in English. He was beheaded for his opposition to Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and pursued after his death by the enmity of the king, who suppressed his books and sought to blacken his name. John Fisher's English writings are distinctive for their structured elegance and clarity. This new edition contains sermons written during the last fifteen years of Fisher's life, including a previously unpublished eyewitness account of the Field of Cloth of Gold celebrations, and devotional works composed while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London.

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