A concise biography portrays an early-sixteenth-century scholar who committed himself to translating the New Testament into the vernacular. It traces his intellectual formation amid humanist learning and religious upheaval, follows his years of exile and contacts with continental reformers, and outlines the practical work of printing, revising, and disseminating editions. The narrative emphasizes his moral courage, scholarship, and sense of duty, the controversies and persecution these qualities provoked, and the lasting presence of his translation within subsequent English religious and literary practice.
