Sunday, August 12, 2012

Thomas Becon (1512-1567): Cambridge Don, Prebend (Canterbury) & English Reformer




http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/3756/Becon-Thomas-1512-1567.html


 Thomas Becon (1512–1567) - BIOGRAPHY, MAJOR WORKS AND THEMES, CRITICAL RECEPTION

Thomas Becon is one of those writers whom students of English history and literature invariably see, when they look at the writers at all, as examples of the “incipient Puritanism” of the mid-Tudor dynasty. One of the most prolific