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  Biographical

Book cover  Saint John Fisher
by Michael Davies
Neumann Press, 1999
"This life of Fisher portrays in a vivid manner those most
closely involved in his life and martyrdom-King Henry VIII;
Lady Margaret Beaufort, Fisher’s patron; the scheming Anne
Boleyn; the saintly Queen Catherine; the cowardly Cardinal
Wolsey; the uncompromising saint Thomas More; etc. After
you have enjoyed and read this book the first time, you will
enjoy reading it again and again, and also use it as a great
reference resource." —Amazon.com


Book cover  Fisher of Men: A Life of John Fisher, 1469-1535
by Maria Dowling
Palgrave Macmillan, 1999
"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."
—Amazon.com


Works
Book cover  Exposition of the Seven Penitential Psalms
by John Fisher, Anne B. Gardiner (Editor)
Ignatius Press, 1998


Book cover  English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (1469-1535):
Sermons and Other Writings, 1520-1535
by John Fisher, Cecilia A. Hatt (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2002
"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unpublished eyewitness account of the Field of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." —The Publisher


Studies

Book cover  The Theology of John Fisher
by Richard Rex
Cambridge University Press, 2003
"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 Catharine of Aragon....
traces the intellectual influences of scholasticism and humanism
in his education and his subsequent career, and the way in which
he attempted to cope with the tensions between the authority of
the Church and the critical implications of humanist study."
—The Publisher


Book cover  The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and
the Remaking of the English Church

by G. W. Bernard
Yale University Press, 2005
""Big, erudite, trenchant and readable, this is
a masterpiece drawing on decades of research and
reflection, and a work of international scholarly
importance." —Ralph Houlbrooke





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