The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More

The book traces the joint intellectual and reforming activity of John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More at Oxford, following Colet’s return from Italy, the spread of humanist learning, and the emergence of their collaborative projects. It recounts Colet’s lectures on the Pauline epistles and his engagement with Pseudo-Dionysian and Neo-Platonic writings, records Erasmus’s arrival and dialogues with Colet and More, and describes their exchanges on Scripture, pedagogy, and moral religion. The narrative integrates lectures, correspondence, and manuscript evidence into a chronological account of their fellow-work and concludes with appendices cataloguing texts and editorial notes that clarify the documentary sources.