Examines Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester (1448-1528)'s life and career, taking as its theme the "corporate" nature of the worlds in which Fox lived and worked: the corpus Christi mysticum of the late medieval church and the emerging "body politic" of the early Tudor monarchy. His service to these institutions, along with his foundation of the humanist Corpus Christi College at Oxford, linked him to "bodies most politic and holy" during a transitional period in English history.