St. John Fisher

John Fisher's times are remembered but he is often not. While information on the Tudor period proliferates there is scarcely a mention of John Fisher. E.E. Reynolds' work is history rather than Hagiography bringing out these details carefully from official state archives ambassadorial correspondence letters and near contemporary biography. In his introduction Reynolds notes: Father Thomas E. Bridgett's Blessed John Fisher (1888) was the first full-scale biography to be based on a careful study of state papers; the result was a work that once and for all established the position and stature of John Fisher. . . Two generations have passed since this pioneer work; Bridgett was scrupulously careful not to go beyond the available evidence; since he wrote other material has become accessible that strengthens the portrait given in Blessed John Fisher. Reynolds makes use of all of this to bring further illustration to the only Cardinal Martyr in a must have for any historian of the Tudor period.