Dean John Colet of St Paul's

This is an important and original biography of John Colet, the leading humanist theologian in early Tudor England and the founder of St Paul''s School in London. Taken at face value, the facts of John Colet''s life, spanning the late 15th and early 16th centuries, appear to portray a successful, humanist clerical reformer, active in London on the eve of the English Reformation. In fact, as a cleri...