The Cambridge companion to Thomas More / edited by George M. Logan.

9780521888622
052188862X
9780521716871 (pbk.)
052171687X (pbk.)

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

English

xxv, 301 p. ; 24 cm.

DA334.M8 C19 2011

942.05/2092

"This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and execution. These chapters are followed by in-depth studies of five of More's major works - Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation and De Tristitia Christi - and a final essay on the varied responses to the man and his writings in his own and subsequent centuries. The volume provides an accessible overview of this fascinating figure to students and other interested readers, whilst also presenting, and in many areas extending, the most important modern scholarship on him"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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