Thomas More

by Richard Marius

• ISBN13: 9780394459820
• ISBN10: 0394459822
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-02-13
• Publisher: Random House Digital Inc.

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Beginnings	p. 3
From Early Life to the Inns of Court	p. 14
Priesthood or Marriage?	p. 34
Public Career to 1515	p. 44
Thomas More and the Renaissance	p. 64
More and Erasmus	p. 79
The History of King Richard III	p. 98
The Richard Hunne affair	p. 123
Church and State in More's Career	p. 142
The Building of Utopia	p. 152
Utopia's Religion and Thomas More's Faith	p. 171
Utopia: Concluding Postscript	p. 184
Thomas More, Royal Councillor	p. 189
Household, Family, and Private Life	p. 217
More, Erasmus, and the Green Years: 1516-21	p. 235
The Greek New Testament	p. 251
Luther and the Protestant Reformation	p. 264
Thomas More, Theological Councillor	p. 276
The Four Last Things: Death and Dying	p. 292
The Reformation Continues	p. 302
William Tyndale: The Coming of the Reformation to England	p. 312
Public Defender of the Faith	p. 325
Elevation to Lord Chancellor	p. 351
Lord Chancellor and King	p. 371
Thomas More and the Heretics	p. 386
Defeat and Departure	p. 407
Last Months of Freedom	p. 418
More in Prison	p. 461
The Last Days	p. 490
Epilogue	p. 515
Bibliography	p. 521
Notes	p. 525
Index	p. 545
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