02-John Colet: His Life and Work

John Colet was born in 1466 or 7, the eldest son of the Lord
Mayor of London. Graduating at Oxford in 1490, he travelled
on the Continent from 1493 to 1496, where, greatly
impressed with the ‘new learning’ of the humanists, he had
the courage to turn his back on the hair-splitting logic of the
scholastics which had dominated the medieval Church for
centuries.