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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2011
Print publication year:
2011
Online ISBN:
9780511976148
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521888622
Subjects:
Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, Religion, Church History, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Religion
Collection:
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
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Book description

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.

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“The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More provides a valuable overview of Thomas More’s life and works, augmenting our understanding of both as well as challenging conventional approaches to his biography and literary criticism. As such, the value of the articles within this text extends beyond More scholarship, enriching a variety of approaches to Renaissance study and the early modern classroom.” --Gaywyn Moore, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)

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