Alexander Barclay
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Dr Alexander Barclay was a poet and clergyman of the Church of England, probably born in Scotland.
Woodcut frontispiece from Alexander Barclay's Lyfe of Seynt George (Westminster, 1515)
Sebastian Brant
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Sebastian Brant was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff.
Alexander Barclay
…1507, appointed him chaplain of the college of Ottery St Mary, Devon. Here he wrote his satirical poem, The Ship of Fools, partly a translation from Sebastian Brant. The death of his patron in 1513 apparently put an end to his connection with the west, and he became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Ely. In…
Woodcut from Das Narrenschiff