Thomas More
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Thomas More

A Life

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eBook - ePub

Thomas More

A Life

About this book

The definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More.

Born into the era of the Wars of the Roses, educated during the European Renaissance, rising to become Chancellor of England, and ultimately destroyed by Henry VIII, Thomas More was one of the most famous—and notorious—figures in English history.

Was he a saintly scholar, the visionary author of Utopia, and an inspiration for statesmen and intellectuals even today? Or was he the cruel zealot famously portrayed in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall? Thomas More: A Life is a monumental biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure. Overturning prior interpretations of this titan of the sixteenth century, Joanne Paul shows Thomas More to have been intellectually and politically central to the making of modern Europe.

Based on new archival discoveries and drawing on more than a decade of research into More’s life and work, this is a richly told story of faith and politics that illuminates a man who, more than four hundred years after his execution, remains one of the most brilliant minds of the Renaissance.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Note on Conventions
  5. The Family of Thomas More
  6. Map of More’s London
  7. To the Reader
  8. Prologue: To Have Ever Fore Mine Eye My Death
  9. Part One: Childhood: 1478–1499
  10. Part Two: Manhood: 1499–1518
  11. Part Three: Age: 1518–1532
  12. Part Four: Death: 1532–1535
  13. Epilogue: Thine Holy Mystical Body
  14. Photographs
  15. Glossary of Terms
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. About the Author
  18. Notes
  19. Endnotes
  20. Cast of Characters
  21. Note on the Sources
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. List of Illustrations
  25. Image Descriptions
  26. Copyright