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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Image credit: Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Værker af Thomas More
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More Including Roper's Life of More and Letters of More and His Daughter Margaret (1947) 247 eksemplarer
Utopia with Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades' 43 eksemplarer
Der utopische Staat : Morus: Utopia + Campanella: Sonnenstaat + Bacon: Neu-Atlantis (1964) — Forfatter — 43 eksemplarer
The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin Poems (1976) 26 eksemplarer
A Book for All Seasons: Readings for Every Day of the Year from the Works of Thomas More (1978) 15 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things (1997) 15 eksemplarer
Conscience decides : letters and prayers from prison written between April 1534 and July 1535 (1971) 13 eksemplarer
Thomas More's Prayer Book: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Annotated Pages (Elizabethan Club Series) (1969) 12 eksemplarer
The Tower Works: Devotional Writings (Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St.Thomas More) (1980) 11 eksemplarer
The Heart of Thomas More: Selected Readings for Everyday 9 eksemplarer
Delphi Collected Works of Sir Thomas More (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 24) (2018) 8 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 5, Responsio ad Lutherum (1969) 7 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II, Latin Poems (1984) 7 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 8, Parts I-III, The Confutation of Tyndale`s Answer… (1698) 7 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford,… (1986) 6 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 10, The Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1988) 6 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 9, The Apology (1979) 6 eksemplarer
Utopia and the History of Edward V 6 eksemplarer
Eloge de la folie / L'Utopie : Suivi de la Lettre d'Erasme à Dorpius (2008) — Forfatter — 6 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 7, Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls,… (1990) 5 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 13, Treatise on the Passion, Treatise on the Blessed… (1976) 5 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 11, The Answer to a Poisoned Book (1985) 5 eksemplarer
Il dialogo del conforto nelle tribolazioni 4 eksemplarer
Sir Thomas More : Selections From His English Works and From the Lives by Erasmus & Roper 4 eksemplarer
More - Os Pensadores 3 eksemplarer
A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work of the best state of a public weal and of the new isle called Utopia 3 eksemplarer
Crumbs of comfort : from the Dialogue of comfort under tribulation by Blessed Thomas More 3 eksemplarer
Utopia (Yale Nota Bene) 3 eksemplarer
Utopia : De optimo reipublicae statu 3 eksemplarer
LA CITTA' DEL SOLE & UTOPIA 2 eksemplarer
Utopia 1st (first) edition by Sir Thomas More published by Pocket Books (Washington Square Press) (1965) [Paperback] 2 eksemplarer
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, edited by J.M. Rigg 2 eksemplarer
St. Thomas More's History of the passion 2 eksemplarer
THOMAS MORE Premium Edition: Utopia, The History of King Richard III, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, De… (2019) 2 eksemplarer
The Utopia, Birmingham, London, '69 2 eksemplarer
The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the… 2 eksemplarer
The Utopia, Macmillan, Oxford, '95 2 eksemplarer
Meditaties in de Tower : Over het zielelijden en de doodsangst van onze Heer in de hof Gethsemane 2 eksemplarer
Utopia - A Dialogue of Comfort 2 eksemplarer
Utopia (Burnet Translation) 🎧 ❤ ✓ (Online-Audio-LibriVox) (Running Time: 3 Hours 53 Minutes 48 Seconds) 2 eksemplarer
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part 1, Translations of Lucian (1974) 2 eksemplarer
Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimiq́[ue] uiri Thomae Mori Britanni ad emendatu[m] exemplar ipsius autoris excusa 2 eksemplarer
The XII propertees or condicyons of a lover 1 eksemplar
Utopia (The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More) by More (1977-07-01) (1722) 1 eksemplar
Utopía: Prólogo de Fernando Savater. Edición y traducción de Pedro Voltes (Clásica)… (2013) 1 eksemplar
Last Letters of Blessed Thomas More 1 eksemplar
UTOPÍA 1 eksemplar
Utopia 1 eksemplar
A utopia - Coleção mestres pensadores 1 eksemplar
Utopia with the Dialogue of comfort 1 eksemplar
More's utopia: the biography of an idean 1 eksemplar
Thomas More: Estadista e Filósofo da Utopia 1 eksemplar
Utopia - Địa Đàng Trần Gian 1 eksemplar
Utopía (Spanish Edition) 1 eksemplar
The Supplication of Souls 1 eksemplar
Utopía 1 eksemplar
Ein wahrhaft goldenes und ebenso heilsames wie erheiterndes Büchlein über den besten Staatszustand und über die neue… — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Epistolario 1 eksemplar
Palabras de Animación 1 eksemplar
Utopía 1 eksemplar
Lettera ad Antonio Bonvisi 1 eksemplar
Priere au Pere 1 eksemplar
Utopia - Địa đàng trần gian 1 eksemplar
Utopia - eBook 1 eksemplar
Erasmos de Rotterdam & Thomas More 1 eksemplar
Os Pensadores - More 1 eksemplar
Os pensadores: Thomas More - A utopia 1 eksemplar
L'Utopie ["Utopia"], discours du très excellent homme Raphaël Hythloday sur la meilleure constitution… 1 eksemplar
Thomq mori V.C. Dissertatio epistolica, de aliquot sui temporis Theologastrorum ineptijs; deque correctione… 1 eksemplar
Utopicheskii roman 16- 17 vekov. 1 eksemplar
Utopia (Short Story) 1 eksemplar
The dialogue of comfort against Tribulation 1 eksemplar
Latin epigrams; edited with translations and notes by Leicester Bradner and Charles Arthur Lynch 1 eksemplar
Morus ad Craneveldium : litterae balduinianae novae = More to Cranevelt : new Baudouin letters (1997) 1 eksemplar
Utopías del renacimiento 1 eksemplar
Utopía 1 eksemplar
The supplication of souls 1 eksemplar
The Utopian World of Sir Thomas More 1 eksemplar
L'Utopie Illustree (French Edition) 1 eksemplar
Thomas More - Bir Gün Filozoflar Kral Ya Da Krallar Filozof Olursa Insanlik O Zaman Mutluluga Kavusur: Vicdan… (2021) 1 eksemplar
The Saint Thomas More Collection 1 eksemplar
Utopia / Thomas More ; oversatt av Tor Ivar Østmoe ; [avsluttende essay av Kristin Gjerpe]. 1 eksemplar
Sakima: City of My Youth 1 eksemplar
More : A Utopia : 1 eksemplar
City At My Feet: Mannahatta Series Book 1 1 eksemplar
Sir Thomas More's Utopia 1 eksemplar
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English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (1963) — Bidragyder — 158 eksemplarer
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume I Advent Season and Christmas Season) (1974) — Bidragyder — 96 eksemplarer
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten Season and Easter Season) (1974) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- More, Thomas
- Andre navne
- MORE, Saint Thomas
MORE, Sir Thomas
MORUS, Tomas - Fødselsdato
- 1478-02-07
- Dødsdag
- 1535-07-06
- Begravelsessted
- 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) - Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Tower Hill, Stepney, London, England, UK
- Dødsårsag
- executed
- Bopæl
- London, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- Oxford University (1494)
New Inn
Lincoln’s Inn (1502)
St. Anthony's School, London, England, UK - Erhverv
- lawyer
politician
Master of Requests
Under-treasurer of the Exchequer
Speaker of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (vis alle 7)
Lord Chancellor - Relationer
- Roper, William (son-in-law)
Lily, William (friend)
Roper, Margaret (daughter) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Canonized (1935)
- Kort biografi
- 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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Characters: 3
Setting: 6.5
Prose: 8
As with Well's "A Modern Utopia", the book is not so much a story as a pleasant way to introduce an ideal society. Not entirely what I was looking for. Might I suggest Huxley's "Island" as a more relevant alternative?