TY - BOOK ID - 21927077 TI - Humanism, reform and the Reformation: the career of bishop John Fisher AU - Duffy, Eamon AU - Bradshaw, Brendan PY - 1989 SN - 0521340349 0521099668 0511665814 9780521340342 9780511665813 9780521099660 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Fisher, John KW - Fisher, John Saint KW - History of civilization KW - Christian church history KW - Fisher, John, KW - Fyscher, Joannes, KW - Fysher, John, KW - Ioannes, KW - Roffen., Io. KW - Roffensis, Ioannes, KW - Congresses. KW - Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535 KW - Congresses KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion KW - Bishops KW - Archbishops KW - Clergy KW - Major orders KW - Metropolitans KW - Orders, Major KW - Chaplains, Bishops' KW - Episcopacy KW - FISHER (JOHN), 1469-1535 KW - HUMANISME KW - REFORME KW - BIOGRAPHIE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21927077 AB - This book assembles ten special studies, each devoted to an aspect of Fisher's multifaceted career or to exploring the intellectual and religious outlook of someone who was at the same time a moderniser, a reformer and an opponent of the Reformation. John Fisher's career provides an illuminating perspective on English religious and intellectual history in a crucial phase of development. As a churchman he became the foremost preacher in England, issuing a call to ecclesiastical reform and personal repentance that echoed the call of Savonarola at Florence. At the same time he provides an early example of the pastoral bishop that was to become the ideal of both the Reformation and the Counter Reformation. Finally in the crisis that paved the way for the English Reformation, he became the leading defender of Queen Catherine against the divorce suit of Henry VIII. He was among the small band who were executed in 1535 as conscientious objectors to the oaths of Succession and Royal Ecclesiastical Supremacy. He has been venerated as a Catholic martyr ever since. ER -