| Title : | Thomas More : a biography | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Richard Marius, Author | | Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univeristy Press | | Publication Date: | 1984 | | Pagination: | xxiv, 562 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-674-88525-7 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-543)
Includes index (p. 545-562) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Biography
Great Britain
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
Statesmen
| | Class number: | 942.05 | | Abstract: | Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. This Tudor prelate and Lord Chancellor of England shared human qualities identifiable in all ages—pride, love, ambition, generosity, hypocrisy, and greed. He was less than common because he was witty and a great storyteller—the best between Chaucer and Shakespeare. Truly, he was a Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In Richard Marius's authoritative and engaging portrait, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure, is a lesson for our season. | | Contents note: | The beginnings; From early life to the inns of court; Priesthood or marriage; Public career; Thomas More and the renaissance; More and Erasmus; The history of King Richard III; The Richard Hunne affair; Church and state in More’s career; The building of Utopia; Utopia’s religion and Thomas More’s faith; Utopia : concluding postscript; Thomas More, royal councilor; Household, family and private life; More, Erasmus and the green years; The greek new testament; Luther and the protestant reformation; Thomas More, theological councilor; The four last things : death and dying; The reformation continues; William Tyndale : the coming of the the reformation to England; Public defender of the faith; Elevation to Lord chancellor; Lord chancellor and King; Thomas More and the heretics; Defeat and departure; Last months of freedom; More in prison; The last days; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16182 |
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