Thomas More (1478–1535)
Auteur de L'Utopie
A propos de l'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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Œuvres de Thomas More
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More Including Roper's Life of More and Letters of More and His Daughter Margaret (1947) 251 exemplaires
Utopia with Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades' 43 exemplaires
Der utopische Staat : Morus: Utopia + Campanella: Sonnenstaat + Bacon: Neu-Atlantis (1964) — Auteur — 43 exemplaires
The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin Poems (1976) 26 exemplaires
A Book for All Seasons: Readings for Every Day of the Year from the Works of Thomas More (1978) 15 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things (1997) 15 exemplaires
Thomas More's Prayer Book: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Annotated Pages (Elizabethan Club Series) (1969) 13 exemplaires
The Tower Works: Devotional Writings (Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St.Thomas More) (1980) 11 exemplaires
The Heart of Thomas More: Selected Readings for Everyday 9 exemplaires
Delphi Collected Works of Sir Thomas More (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 24) (2018) 8 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 5, Responsio ad Lutherum (1969) 7 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II, Latin Poems (1984) 7 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 8, Parts I-III, The Confutation of Tyndale`s Answer… (1698) 7 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 9, The Apology (1979) 6 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford,… (1986) 6 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 10, The Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1988) 6 exemplaires
Eloge de la folie / L'Utopie : Suivi de la Lettre d'Erasme à Dorpius (2008) — Auteur — 6 exemplaires
Utopia and the History of Edward V 6 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 13, Treatise on the Passion, Treatise on the Blessed… (1976) 5 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 11, The Answer to a Poisoned Book (1985) 5 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 7, Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls,… (1990) 5 exemplaires
Il dialogo del conforto nelle tribolazioni 4 exemplaires
Sir Thomas More : Selections From His English Works and From the Lives by Erasmus & Roper 4 exemplaires
More - Os Pensadores 3 exemplaires
A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work of the best state of a public weal and of the new isle called Utopia 3 exemplaires
Utopia : De optimo reipublicae statu 3 exemplaires
Utopia (Yale Nota Bene) 3 exemplaires
Crumbs of comfort : from the Dialogue of comfort under tribulation by Blessed Thomas More 3 exemplaires
St. Thomas More's History of the passion 2 exemplaires
THOMAS MORE Premium Edition: Utopia, The History of King Richard III, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, De… (2019) 2 exemplaires
LA CITTA' DEL SOLE & UTOPIA 2 exemplaires
Utopia 1st (first) edition by Sir Thomas More published by Pocket Books (Washington Square Press) (1965) [Paperback] 2 exemplaires
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, edited by J.M. Rigg 2 exemplaires
Utopia (Burnet Translation) 🎧 ❤ ✓ (Online-Audio-LibriVox) (Running Time: 3 Hours 53 Minutes 48 Seconds) 2 exemplaires
Meditaties in de Tower : Over het zielelijden en de doodsangst van onze Heer in de hof Gethsemane 2 exemplaires
The Utopia, Birmingham, London, '69 2 exemplaires
The Utopia, Macmillan, Oxford, '95 2 exemplaires
Utopia - A Dialogue of Comfort 2 exemplaires
The Supplication of Souls 2 exemplaires
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part 1, Translations of Lucian (1974) 2 exemplaires
Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimiq́[ue] uiri Thomae Mori Britanni ad emendatu[m] exemplar ipsius autoris excusa 2 exemplaires
The XII propertees or condicyons of a lover 1 exemplaire
More's Utopia, tr. by R. Robynson, pr. from the 2nd ed., 1556. To which is prefixed The life of sir Thos. More by… 1 exemplaire
Utopia (The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More) by More (1977-07-01) (1722) 1 exemplaire
Utopía: Prólogo de Fernando Savater. Edición y traducción de Pedro Voltes (Clásica)… (2013) 1 exemplaire
Utopia - Địa Đàng Trần Gian 1 exemplaire
UTOPÍA 1 exemplaire
The four last things. 1 exemplaire
Utopia 1 exemplaire
A utopia - Coleção mestres pensadores 1 exemplaire
More's utopia: the biography of an idean 1 exemplaire
Priere au Pere 1 exemplaire
Thomas More: Estadista e Filósofo da Utopia 1 exemplaire
Last Letters of Blessed Thomas More 1 exemplaire
Utopía (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaire
Thomae Mori ... Omnia, quae hucusque ad manus nostras peruenerunt, latina opera: quorum aliqua nunc primum in lucem… 1 exemplaire
Utopía 1 exemplaire
Ein wahrhaft goldenes und ebenso heilsames wie erheiterndes Büchlein über den besten Staatszustand und über die neue… — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Epistolario 1 exemplaire
Palabras de Animación 1 exemplaire
Utopía 1 exemplaire
Lettera ad Antonio Bonvisi 1 exemplaire
Utopia with the Dialogue of comfort 1 exemplaire
De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libri II. Auctore Thoma Moro ... Ex prioribus editionibus… 1 exemplaire
Utopia - Địa đàng trần gian 1 exemplaire
Utopia - eBook 1 exemplaire
Erasmos de Rotterdam & Thomas More 1 exemplaire
Os Pensadores - More 1 exemplaire
Os pensadores: Thomas More - A utopia 1 exemplaire
L'Utopie ["Utopia"], discours du très excellent homme Raphaël Hythloday sur la meilleure constitution… 1 exemplaire
Tomas Mor : Utopia; Epigrammy; Istorija Richarda III 1 exemplaire
Luciani Cynicus ; Menippus, sive, Necromantia ; Philopseudes, sive, Incredulus ; Tyrannicida: Mori declamatio… 1 exemplaire
Thomq mori V.C. Dissertatio epistolica, de aliquot sui temporis Theologastrorum ineptijs; deque correctione… 1 exemplaire
Richard III. The great debate. Sir Thomas More. History of King Richard III. Horace Walpole: Historic Doubts on the… 1 exemplaire
Utopia 1 exemplaire
Utopicheskii roman 16- 17 vekov. 1 exemplaire
Thomas More as Poet: An Anthology of the Poems of Sir Thomas More, Some Rendered from the Latin, the Rest from His… 1 exemplaire
Utopia (Short Story) 1 exemplaire
The Historie of the Pitifull Life, and unfortunate Death of Edward the fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke his brother 1 exemplaire
A dyaloge of syr Thomas More knyghte: one of the counsayll of our souerayne lorde the kyng and chauncelloure of hys… 1 exemplaire
The dialogue of comfort against Tribulation 1 exemplaire
Latin epigrams; edited with translations and notes by Leicester Bradner and Charles Arthur Lynch 1 exemplaire
Morus ad Craneveldium : litterae balduinianae novae = More to Cranevelt : new Baudouin letters (1997) 1 exemplaire
Utopías del renacimiento 1 exemplaire
30+ Classic Philosophy Book Collection: The Art of War, Poetics, The Republic, The Meditations, The Prince and others 1 exemplaire
The Utopian World of Sir Thomas More 1 exemplaire
L'Utopie Illustree (French Edition) 1 exemplaire
Thomas More - Bir Gün Filozoflar Kral Ya Da Krallar Filozof Olursa Insanlik O Zaman Mutluluga Kavusur: Vicdan… (2021) 1 exemplaire
Utopia / Thomas More ; oversatt av Tor Ivar Østmoe ; [avsluttende essay av Kristin Gjerpe]. 1 exemplaire
On the Best State of A Commonwealth and On the New Island of Utopia A Truly Golden Handbook No Less Beneficial Than… 1 exemplaire
33 Masterpieces of Philosophy and Science to Read Before You Die (Illustrated): Utopia, The Meditations, The Art of… 1 exemplaire
More : A Utopia : 1 exemplaire
City At My Feet: Mannahatta Series Book 1 1 exemplaire
Utopía 1 exemplaire
Sir Thomas More's Utopia 1 exemplaire
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English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (1963) — Contributeur — 157 exemplaires
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- More, Thomas
- Autres noms
- MORE, Saint Thomas
MORE, Sir Thomas
MORUS, Tomas - Date de naissance
- 1478-02-07
- Date de décès
- 1535-07-06
- Lieu de sépulture
- 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) - Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Tower Hill, Stepney, London, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- executed
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Oxford University (1494)
New Inn
Lincoln’s Inn (1502)
St. Anthony's School, London, England, UK - Professions
- lawyer
politician
Master of Requests
Under-treasurer of the Exchequer
Speaker of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (tout afficher 7)
Lord Chancellor - Relations
- Roper, William (son-in-law)
Lily, William (friend)
Roper, Margaret (daughter) - Prix et distinctions
- Canonized (1935)
- Courte biographie
- 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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