John Colet

John Colet by John B. Gleason offers the first comprehensive scholarly biography of the early Tudor theologian, reformer, and founder of St. Paul’s School. Long overshadowed by Erasmus and Thomas More, Colet emerges here as a central figure in the intellectual and religious life of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England. Drawing on Colet’s manuscripts, sermons, and exegetical writings, as well as the shifting historiographical traditions that shaped his posthumous reputation, G...