Thomas More (1478–1535)
Auteur van Utopia
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Werken van Thomas More
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More Including Roper's Life of More and Letters of More and His Daughter Margaret (1947) 249 exemplaren
Utopia with Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades' 43 exemplaren
Der utopische Staat : Morus: Utopia + Campanella: Sonnenstaat + Bacon: Neu-Atlantis (1964) — Auteur — 43 exemplaren
The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin Poems (1976) 26 exemplaren
A Book for All Seasons: Readings for Every Day of the Year from the Works of Thomas More (1978) 15 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things (1997) 15 exemplaren
Conscience decides : letters and prayers from prison written between April 1534 and July 1535 (1971) 13 exemplaren
Thomas More's Prayer Book: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Annotated Pages (Elizabethan Club Series) (1969) 12 exemplaren
The Tower Works: Devotional Writings (Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St.Thomas More) (1980) 11 exemplaren
Delphi Collected Works of Sir Thomas More (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 24) (2018) 8 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 5, Responsio ad Lutherum (1969) 7 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II, Latin Poems (1984) 7 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 8, Parts I-III, The Confutation of Tyndale`s Answer… (1698) 7 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford,… (1986) 6 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 10, The Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1988) 6 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 9, The Apology (1979) 6 exemplaren
Utopia and the History of Edward V 6 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 7, Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls,… (1990) 5 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 13, Treatise on the Passion, Treatise on the Blessed… (1976) 5 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 11, The Answer to a Poisoned Book (1985) 5 exemplaren
Il dialogo del conforto nelle tribolazioni 4 exemplaren
Sir Thomas More : Selections From His English Works and From the Lives by Erasmus & Roper 4 exemplaren
More - Os Pensadores 3 exemplaren
A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work of the best state of a public weal and of the new isle called Utopia 3 exemplaren
Crumbs of comfort : from the Dialogue of comfort under tribulation by Blessed Thomas More 3 exemplaren
Utopia (Yale Nota Bene) 3 exemplaren
Utopia : De optimo reipublicae statu 3 exemplaren
LA CITTA' DEL SOLE & UTOPIA 2 exemplaren
Utopia 1st (first) edition by Sir Thomas More published by Pocket Books (Washington Square Press) (1965) [Paperback] 2 exemplaren
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, edited by J.M. Rigg 2 exemplaren
St. Thomas More's History of the passion 2 exemplaren
THOMAS MORE Premium Edition: Utopia, The History of King Richard III, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, De… (2019) 2 exemplaren
The Utopia, Birmingham, London, '69 2 exemplaren
The Utopia, Macmillan, Oxford, '95 2 exemplaren
Meditaties in de Tower : Over het zielelijden en de doodsangst van onze Heer in de hof Gethsemane 2 exemplaren
Utopia - A Dialogue of Comfort 2 exemplaren
Utopia (Burnet Translation) 🎧 ❤ ✓ (Online-Audio-LibriVox) (Running Time: 3 Hours 53 Minutes 48 Seconds) 2 exemplaren
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part 1, Translations of Lucian (1974) 2 exemplaren
Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimiq́[ue] uiri Thomae Mori Britanni ad emendatu[m] exemplar ipsius autoris excusa 2 exemplaren
The XII propertees or condicyons of a lover 1 exemplaar
Utopia (The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More) by More (1977-07-01) (1722) 1 exemplaar
Utopía: Prólogo de Fernando Savater. Edición y traducción de Pedro Voltes (Clásica)… (2013) 1 exemplaar
Last Letters of Blessed Thomas More 1 exemplaar
UTOPÍA 1 exemplaar
Utopia 1 exemplaar
A utopia - Coleção mestres pensadores 1 exemplaar
Utopia with the Dialogue of comfort 1 exemplaar
More's utopia: the biography of an idean 1 exemplaar
Thomas More: Estadista e Filósofo da Utopia 1 exemplaar
Utopia - Địa Đàng Trần Gian 1 exemplaar
Utopía (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaar
The Supplication of Souls 1 exemplaar
Utopía 1 exemplaar
Ein wahrhaft goldenes und ebenso heilsames wie erheiterndes Büchlein über den besten Staatszustand und über die neue… — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Epistolario 1 exemplaar
Palabras de Animación 1 exemplaar
Utopía 1 exemplaar
Lettera ad Antonio Bonvisi 1 exemplaar
Priere au Pere 1 exemplaar
Utopia - Địa đàng trần gian 1 exemplaar
Utopia - eBook 1 exemplaar
Erasmos de Rotterdam & Thomas More 1 exemplaar
Os Pensadores - More 1 exemplaar
Os pensadores: Thomas More - A utopia 1 exemplaar
L'Utopie ["Utopia"], discours du très excellent homme Raphaël Hythloday sur la meilleure constitution… 1 exemplaar
Thomq mori V.C. Dissertatio epistolica, de aliquot sui temporis Theologastrorum ineptijs; deque correctione… 1 exemplaar
Utopicheskii roman 16- 17 vekov. 1 exemplaar
Utopia (Short Story) 1 exemplaar
The dialogue of comfort against Tribulation 1 exemplaar
Latin epigrams; edited with translations and notes by Leicester Bradner and Charles Arthur Lynch 1 exemplaar
Morus ad Craneveldium : litterae balduinianae novae = More to Cranevelt : new Baudouin letters (1997) 1 exemplaar
Utopías del renacimiento 1 exemplaar
Utopía 1 exemplaar
The supplication of souls 1 exemplaar
The Utopian World of Sir Thomas More 1 exemplaar
L'Utopie Illustree (French Edition) 1 exemplaar
Thomas More - Bir Gün Filozoflar Kral Ya Da Krallar Filozof Olursa Insanlik O Zaman Mutluluga Kavusur: Vicdan… (2021) 1 exemplaar
The Saint Thomas More Collection 1 exemplaar
Utopia / Thomas More ; oversatt av Tor Ivar Østmoe ; [avsluttende essay av Kristin Gjerpe]. 1 exemplaar
Sakima: City of My Youth 1 exemplaar
More : A Utopia : 1 exemplaar
City At My Feet: Mannahatta Series Book 1 1 exemplaar
Sir Thomas More's Utopia 1 exemplaar
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Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines… (1999) — Medewerker — 300 exemplaren
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The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten Season and Easter Season) (1974) — Medewerker — 82 exemplaren
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Medewerker — 63 exemplaren
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Medewerker — 23 exemplaren
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Medewerker — 20 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- More, Thomas
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- MORE, Saint Thomas
MORE, Sir Thomas
MORUS, Tomas - Geboortedatum
- 1478-02-07
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1535-07-06
- Graflocatie
- 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) - Geslacht
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- Oxford University (1494)
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St. Anthony's School, London, England, UK - Beroepen
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Speaker of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (toon alle 7)
Lord Chancellor - Relaties
- Roper, William (son-in-law)
Lily, William (friend)
Roper, Margaret (daughter) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Canonized (1935)
- Korte biografie
- 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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