Thomas More (1478–1535)
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Born in London, the son of a judge, More became an important statesman and scholar. He was also one of the most eminent humanists of the Renaissance. Educated at Oxford, More became an under-sheriff of London and, later, a member of Parliament. Under King Henry VIII he served as Treasurer of the näytä lisää Exchequer, speaker of the House of Commons, and, finally, Lord Chancellor. More is probably best known for his Utopia, which was written in Latin (then the language of literary and intellectual Europe). It was translated into English in 1551. As the first part of this small masterpiece indicates, when More was weighing the offer to be an adviser to Henry VIII he was well aware of the compromises, bitterness, and frustration that such an office involved. In the second part, More develops his famous utopia---a Greek word punning on the meanings "a good place" and "no place"---a religious, communistic society where the common ownership of goods, obligatory work for everyone, and the regular life of all before the eyes of all ensure that one's baser nature will remain under control. Inspired by Plato's (see Vols. 3 and 4) Republic, More's Utopia became in turn the urbane legacy of the humanistic movement (in which More's friends were most notably Erasmus (see Vol. 4), John Colet, and William Grocyn) to succeeding ages. More also wrote a history, Richard III, which, if arguably the first instance of modern historiography in its attention to character and its departure from chronicle, is also, in its responsiveness to the Tudor polemic of divine rights, largely responsible for the notorious reputation of Richard as an evil ruler. More's refusal to recognize Henry VIII as Head of the Church led to a sentence of high treason. Imprisoned for more than a year, he was finally beheaded. Eventually, More was granted sainthood. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
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The Utopia of Sir Thomas More Including Roper's Life of More and Letters of More and His Daughter Margaret (1947) 250 kappaletta
Utopia with Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades' 43 kappaletta
Der utopische Staat : Morus: Utopia + Campanella: Sonnenstaat + Bacon: Neu-Atlantis (1964) — Tekijä — 43 kappaletta
The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin Poems (1976) 26 kappaletta
A Book for All Seasons: Readings for Every Day of the Year from the Works of Thomas More (1978) 15 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things (1997) 15 kappaletta
Conscience decides : letters and prayers from prison written between April 1534 and July 1535 (1971) 13 kappaletta
Thomas More's Prayer Book: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Annotated Pages (Elizabethan Club Series) (1969) 12 kappaletta
The Tower Works: Devotional Writings (Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St.Thomas More) (1980) 11 kappaletta
Delphi Collected Works of Sir Thomas More (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 24) (2018) 8 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II, Latin Poems (1984) 7 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 5, Responsio ad Lutherum (1969) 7 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 8, Parts I-III, The Confutation of Tyndale`s Answer… (1698) 7 kappaletta
Utopia and the History of Edward V 6 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford,… (1986) 6 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 9, The Apology (1979) 6 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 10, The Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1988) 6 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 13, Treatise on the Passion, Treatise on the Blessed… (1976) 5 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 11, The Answer to a Poisoned Book (1985) 5 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 7, Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls,… (1990) 5 kappaletta
Il dialogo del conforto nelle tribolazioni 4 kappaletta
Sir Thomas More : Selections From His English Works and From the Lives by Erasmus & Roper 4 kappaletta
A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work of the best state of a public weal and of the new isle called Utopia 3 kappaletta
Utopia (Yale Nota Bene) 3 kappaletta
Utopia : De optimo reipublicae statu 3 kappaletta
More - Os Pensadores 3 kappaletta
Crumbs of comfort : from the Dialogue of comfort under tribulation by Blessed Thomas More 3 kappaletta
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, edited by J.M. Rigg 2 kappaletta
Utopia 1st (first) edition by Sir Thomas More published by Pocket Books (Washington Square Press) (1965) [Paperback] 2 kappaletta
Utopia - A Dialogue of Comfort 2 kappaletta
Utopia (Burnet Translation) 🎧 ❤ ✓ (Online-Audio-LibriVox) (Running Time: 3 Hours 53 Minutes 48 Seconds) 2 kappaletta
Meditaties in de Tower : Over het zielelijden en de doodsangst van onze Heer in de hof Gethsemane 2 kappaletta
The Supplication of Souls 2 kappaletta
LA CITTA' DEL SOLE & UTOPIA 2 kappaletta
Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimiq́[ue] uiri Thomae Mori Britanni ad emendatu[m] exemplar ipsius autoris excusa 2 kappaletta
The Utopia, Macmillan, Oxford, '95 2 kappaletta
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part 1, Translations of Lucian (1974) 2 kappaletta
The Utopia, Birmingham, London, '69 2 kappaletta
St. Thomas More's History of the passion 2 kappaletta
THOMAS MORE Premium Edition: Utopia, The History of King Richard III, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, De… (2019) 2 kappaletta
Palabras de Animación 1 kappale
Utopía 1 kappale
Utopia (The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More) by More (1977-07-01) (1722) 1 kappale
Utopía: Prólogo de Fernando Savater. Edición y traducción de Pedro Voltes (Clásica)… (2013) 1 kappale
Lettera ad Antonio Bonvisi 1 kappale
Utopía (Spanish Edition) 1 kappale
Utopía 1 kappale
UTOPÍA 1 kappale
Epistolario 1 kappale
The four last things. 1 kappale
Utopia 1 kappale
A utopia - Coleção mestres pensadores 1 kappale
Utopia with the Dialogue of comfort 1 kappale
More's utopia: the biography of an idean 1 kappale
Priere au Pere 1 kappale
Utopia - Địa Đàng Trần Gian 1 kappale
Last Letters of Blessed Thomas More 1 kappale
Ein wahrhaft goldenes und ebenso heilsames wie erheiterndes Büchlein über den besten Staatszustand und über die neue… — Tekijä — 1 kappale
More : A Utopia : 1 kappale
The Utopian World of Sir Thomas More 1 kappale
L'Utopie Illustree (French Edition) 1 kappale
Thomas More - Bir Gün Filozoflar Kral Ya Da Krallar Filozof Olursa Insanlik O Zaman Mutluluga Kavusur: Vicdan… (2021) 1 kappale
Utopia / Thomas More ; oversatt av Tor Ivar Østmoe ; [avsluttende essay av Kristin Gjerpe]. 1 kappale
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Utopia 1 kappale
Utopia - Địa đàng trần gian 1 kappale
Utopia - eBook 1 kappale
Utopicheskii roman 16- 17 vekov. 1 kappale
Utopia (Short Story) 1 kappale
Os pensadores: Thomas More - A utopia 1 kappale
Os Pensadores - More 1 kappale
Erasmos de Rotterdam & Thomas More 1 kappale
Latin epigrams; edited with translations and notes by Leicester Bradner and Charles Arthur Lynch 1 kappale
Morus ad Craneveldium : litterae balduinianae novae = More to Cranevelt : new Baudouin letters (1997) 1 kappale
Utopías del renacimiento 1 kappale
Sir Thomas More's Utopia 1 kappale
Associated Works
Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines… (1999) — Avustaja — 301 kappaletta
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (1963) — Avustaja — 157 kappaletta
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume I Advent Season and Christmas Season) (1974) — Avustaja — 98 kappaletta
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten Season and Easter Season) (1974) — Avustaja — 84 kappaletta
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Avustaja — 65 kappaletta
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Avustaja — 23 kappaletta
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- Kanoninen nimi
- More, Thomas
- Muut nimet
- MORE, Saint Thomas
MORE, Sir Thomas
MORUS, Tomas - Syntymäaika
- 1478-02-07
- Kuolinaika
- 1535-07-06
- Hautapaikka
- Royal Chapel of St. Peter Ad Vincula, Tower of London, London, UK (body)
Roper Vault of St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK (head) - Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- England, UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- London, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Tower Hill, Stepney, London, England, UK
- Kuolinsyy
- executed
- Asuinpaikat
- London, England, UK
- Koulutus
- Oxford University (1494)
New Inn
Lincoln’s Inn (1502)
St. Anthony's School, London, England, UK - Ammatit
- lawyer
politician
Master of Requests
Under-treasurer of the Exchequer
Speaker of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (näytä kaikki 7)
Lord Chancellor - Suhteet
- Roper, William (son-in-law)
Lily, William (friend)
Roper, Margaret (daughter) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Canonized (1935)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary island state.
More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and executed. On his execution, he was reported to have said: "I die the King's good servant, and God's first".
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the patron saint of statesmen and politicians. The Soviet Union in the early twentieth century honoured him for the purportedly communist attitude toward property rights in Utopia.
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