Author: ErasmusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Lives of Jehan Vitrier, Warden of the Franciscan Convent at St. Omer, and John Colet, Dean of St. Paulis, London
Author: ErasmusA Life of John Colet, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's and Founder of St. Paul's School
Author: Joseph Hirst LuptonThe lives of Jehan Vitrier ... and John Colet ... in a letter to Justus Jonas, tr., with notes and appendices by J. H. Lupton
Author: Desiderius ErasmusDean John Colet of St Paul's
Author: Jonathan ArnoldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857711989
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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 cleric, John Colet was neither successful nor a reformer, nor were the reforms he attempted particularly welcome. His greatest achievement, and lasting legacy, was the foundation of his school. Thus, in the sphere of Christian humanist education, Colet was a success. However, in all his dealings, Colet considered the spiritual life to be of paramount importance and his ultimate aim was the deification of sinful humanity, not just for a few exceptional individuals, but for the entire Church. In this respect, Colet's ecclesiastical vision did not effect any significant change in the early sixteenth-century Church, although it nevertheless pointed to the possibility of a more spiritual, unified and holy Church. Colet was a passionate and pious man who does not fall easily into any historical, intellectual or ecclesiastical category. Ultimately, he escapes identification with any other set of contemporaneous idealists because his vision was his own. This study offers a timely re-assessment of the life of a complex religious figure of pre-Reformation England.
A life of John Colet. With an appendix of some of his English writings
Author: Joseph Hirst LuptonSt. Paul's
Author: Lecturer in Modern British History Arthur BurnsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300092768
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The present St Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Wren's masterpiece, is the fourth religious building to occupy the site. Its location in the heart of the capital reflects its importance in the English church while the photographs of it burning during the Blitz forms one of the most powerful and familiar images of London during recent times. This substantial and richly illustrated study, published to mark the 1,400th anniversary of St Paul's, presents 42 scholarly contributions which approach the cathedral from a range of perspectives. All are supported by photographs, illustrations and plans of the exterior and interior of St Paul's, both past and present. Eight essays discuss the history of St Paul's, demonstrating the role of the cathedral in the formation of England's church and state from the 7th century onwards; nine essays examine the organisation and function of the cathedral during the Middle Ages, looking at, for example, the arrangement of the precinct, the tombs, the Dean's household during the 15th century, the liturgy and the archaeology. The remaining papers examine many aspects of Wren's cathedral, including its construction, fittings and embellishments, its estates and income, music and rituals, its place in London, its library, its role in the book trade and its reputation.
English Writers
Author: Henry Morley“The” Academy
Author: The Spectator
Author: A Sermon on the Child Jesus
Author: Desiderius ErasmusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description