Thomas More : a biography
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Type of record: Book
Title: Thomas More : a biography
Classmark: Richard III Collection/MAR
Creator(s): Marius, Richard
Related people: More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535
Publisher: Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Publication city: New York
Date(s): 1984
Language: English
Size and medium: xxiv, 562 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/488786
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010648439705181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-524) and index.
The beginnings -- From early life to the Inns of Court -- Priesthood or marriage? -- Public career to 1515 -- Thomas More and the Renaissance -- More and Erasmus -- The history of King Richard III -- The Richard Hunne affair -- Church and state in More's career -- The building of Utopia -- Utopia's religion and Thomas More's faith -- Utopia: Concluding postscript -- Thomas More, royal councillor -- Household, family, and private life -- More, Erasmus, and the green years, 1516-21 -- The Greek New Testament -- Luther and the Protestant Reformation -- Thomas More, Theological councillor -- The four last things: death and dying -- The Reformation continues -- William Tyndale: the coming of the Reformation to England -- Public defender of the faith -- Elevation to Lord Chancellor -- Lord Chancellor and King -- Thomas More and the heretics -- Defeat and departure -- Last months of freedom -- More in prison -- The last days.
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