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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453597803321

Autore

More Thomas, Saint, <1478-1535.>

Titolo

Utopia / / Thomas, More ; translated and introduced by Clarence H. Miller ; wirh a new afterword by Jerry Harp ; Rebecca Gibb, design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-300-19522-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerClarence H

HarpJerry

GibbRebecca

Disciplina

335.02

Soggetti

Utopias

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A CHRONOLOGY OF MORE'S LIFE -- UTOPIA -- Thomas More to Peter Giles, Greetings -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Thomas More to His Friend Peter Giles, Warmest Greetings -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this masterful translation. In a new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes More's life and Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance. "Clarence H. Miller's fine translation tracks the supple variations of More's Latin with unmatched precision, and his Introduction and notes are masterly. Jerry Harp's new Afterword adroitly places More's wonderful little book into its broader contexts in intellectual history."-George M. Logan, author of The Meaning of More's "Utopia" "Sir Thomas More's Utopia is not merely one of the foundational texts of western culture, but also a book whose most



fundamental concerns are as urgent now as they were in 1516 when it was written. Clarence H. Miller's wonderful translation of More's classic is now happily once again available to readers. This is the English edition that best captures the tone and texture of More's original Latin, and its notes and introduction, along with the lively afterward by Jerry Harp, graciously supply exactly the kinds of help a modern reader might desire."-David Scott Kastan, Yale University