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Record Nr.

UNISA996218163203316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Thomas More / / edited by George M. Logan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-80186-4

0-511-97614-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to religion

Disciplina

942.05/2092

Soggetti

Christian martyrs - England

Humanists - England

Statesmen - Great Britain

Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Biography

England Intellectual life 16th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1509-1547

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The making of a London citizen / Caroline M. Barron -- Thomas More as humanist / James McConica -- More's rhetoric / Elizabeth McCutcheon -- More's public life / Cathy Curtis -- Thomas More and the heretics: statesman or fanatic? / Richard Rex -- The last years / Peter Marshall -- Reading Utopia / Dominic Baker-Smith -- More on tyranny: The history of King Richard the Third / George M. Logan -- 'The comen knowen multytude of crysten men': A dialogue concerning heresies and the defence of Christendom / Eamon Duffy -- 'In stede of harme inestimable good': A dialogue of comfort against tribulation / Andrew W. Taylor -- The lessons of Gethsemane: De tristitia Christi / Katherine Gardiner Rodgers -- Afterlives / Anne Lake Prescott -- Foundational resources for More studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent



Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and execution. These chapters are followed by in-depth studies of five of More's major works - Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation and De Tristitia Christi - and a final essay on the varied responses to the man and his writings in his own and subsequent centuries. The volume provides an accessible overview of this fascinating figure to students and other interested readers, whilst also presenting, and in many areas extending, the most important modern scholarship on him.