{"id":2701,"date":"2017-02-15T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:47:50","slug":"reading-the-reformation-john-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2017\/02\/15\/reading-the-reformation-john-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Reformation : John Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

New College Library’s collections provide a rich resource for\u00a0and about Reformation theology and its readers. One of these readers was John\u00a0Fisher<\/span>\u00a0 [St John Fisher]<\/span> (c.<\/em>1469\u20131535),\u00a0bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr in the time of Henry VII and VIII. Tutored in Greek by Erasmus, Fisher was able to use Erasmus’s edition of the Greek New Testament (1). Like his contemporary, Thomas More, Fisher was an active opponent of Martin Luther in the theological debates of the 1520s.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

New College Library holds two editions of Fisher’s response to Luther’s theology, Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio<\/em>\u00a0(1523).<\/p>\n

\u2014Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio \/ per Reuerendum Patrem Joannem Roffensem Episcopum, Academiae Cantabrigiensis Cancellarium. Antwerp, 1523. X7\/A2<\/p><\/div>\n

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This copy has\u00a0pasted in manuscript leaves\u00a0as endpapers, which have handwritten annotations.\u00a0The decorated leather binding has a GG decoration identifying\u00a0it as\u00a0bound by\u00a0Garret Godfrey, who was bookbinding in Cambridge in the first half of the sixteenth century, and evidence of the original metal clasps. Could it have been part of Fisher’s own library, as he was Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University?<\/p>\n

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The second copy\u00a0also has\u00a0a finely tooled binding\u00a0identified as being from Regensburg.\u00a0 It demonstrates how Luther’s arguments crossed Europe to Britain and\u00a0were discussed, refuted and returned to Germany, in the\u00a0great\u00a0European debate that drove the Reformation.<\/p>\n

Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – Divinity<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Lawrence, Rare Books Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n

(1) Richard Rex, \u2018Fisher, John<\/span> [St John Fisher] (c.<\/em>1469\u20131535)<\/span>\u2019, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/i>, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/9498, accessed 13 Feb 2017]John Fisher [St John Fisher] (c.<\/em>1469\u20131535): doi:10.1093\/ref:odnb\/9498<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New College Library’s collections provide a rich resource for\u00a0and about Reformation theology and its readers. One of these readers was John\u00a0Fisher\u00a0 [St John Fisher] (c.1469\u20131535),\u00a0bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr in the time of Henry VII and VIII. Tutored in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[199,4,8],"tags":[57,131,154,155,169,179],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-Hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}