Thomas More (1478–1535)
Autor(a) de Utopia
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Obras de Thomas More
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More Including Roper's Life of More and Letters of More and His Daughter Margaret (1947) 249 cópias
Der utopische Staat : Morus: Utopia + Campanella: Sonnenstaat + Bacon: Neu-Atlantis (1964) — Autor — 43 cópias
A Book for All Seasons: Readings for Every Day of the Year from the Works of Thomas More (1978) 15 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things (1997) 15 cópias
Conscience decides : letters and prayers from prison written between April 1534 and July 1535 (1971) 13 cópias
Thomas More's Prayer Book: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Annotated Pages (Elizabethan Club Series) (1969) 12 cópias
The Tower Works: Devotional Writings (Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St.Thomas More) (1980) 11 cópias
Delphi Collected Works of Sir Thomas More (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 24) (2018) 8 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 5, Responsio ad Lutherum (1969) 7 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II, Latin Poems (1984) 7 cópias
The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 8, Parts I-III, The Confutation of Tyndale`s Answer… (1698) 7 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford,… (1986) 6 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 10, The Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1988) 6 cópias
Utopia and the History of Edward V 6 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 7, Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls,… (1990) 5 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 13, Treatise on the Passion, Treatise on the Blessed… (1976) 5 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 11, The Answer to a Poisoned Book (1985) 5 cópias
More - Os Pensadores 3 cópias
Utopia (Yale Nota Bene) 3 cópias
Utopia : De optimo reipublicae statu 3 cópias
LA CITTA' DEL SOLE & UTOPIA 2 cópias
THOMAS MORE Premium Edition: Utopia, The History of King Richard III, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, De… (2019) 2 cópias
The Utopia, Birmingham, London, '69 2 cópias
The Utopia, Macmillan, Oxford, '95 2 cópias
Meditaties in de Tower : Over het zielelijden en de doodsangst van onze Heer in de hof Gethsemane 2 cópias
Utopia - A Dialogue of Comfort 2 cópias
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part 1, Translations of Lucian (1974) 2 cópias
The XII propertees or condicyons of a lover 1 exemplar(es)
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 exemplar(es)
Utopia (The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More) by More (1977-07-01) (1722) 1 exemplar(es)
Utopía: Prólogo de Fernando Savater. Edición y traducción de Pedro Voltes (Clásica)… (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Last Letters of Blessed Thomas More 1 exemplar(es)
UTOPÍA 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia : lo stato perfetto, ovvero, L'isola che non c'è 1 exemplar(es)
A utopia - Coleção mestres pensadores 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia with the Dialogue of comfort 1 exemplar(es)
More's utopia: the biography of an idean 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas More: Estadista e Filósofo da Utopia 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia - Địa Đàng Trần Gian 1 exemplar(es)
Thomae Mori ... Omnia, quae hucusque ad manus nostras peruenerunt, latina opera: quorum aliqua nunc primum in lucem… 1 exemplar(es)
Utopía (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
The Supplication of Souls 1 exemplar(es)
Utopía 1 exemplar(es)
Ein wahrhaft goldenes und ebenso heilsames wie erheiterndes Büchlein über den besten Staatszustand und über die neue… — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Epistolario 1 exemplar(es)
Palabras de Animación 1 exemplar(es)
Utopía 1 exemplar(es)
Lettera ad Antonio Bonvisi 1 exemplar(es)
Priere au Pere 1 exemplar(es)
De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libri II. Auctore Thoma Moro ... Ex prioribus editionibus… 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia - Địa đàng trần gian 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia and a Dialogue of Comfort. Everyman's Library #461 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia - eBook 1 exemplar(es)
On the best state of a commonwealth and on the new island of Utopia; a truly golden handbook, no less beneficial than… 1 exemplar(es)
Autobiography of Mr. Thomas More (alias Ayeet Mort-Tii) 1 exemplar(es)
Erasmos de Rotterdam & Thomas More 1 exemplar(es)
Os Pensadores - More 1 exemplar(es)
Os pensadores: Thomas More - A utopia 1 exemplar(es)
L'Utopie ["Utopia"], discours du très excellent homme Raphaël Hythloday sur la meilleure constitution… 1 exemplar(es)
More's History of King Richard III [Edited with notes, glossary and index of names by J. Rawson Lumby, D.D., to which… 1 exemplar(es)
UTOPIA ED ELOGIO FOLLIA: Tommaso Moro ed Erasmo da Rotterdam 1 exemplar(es)
Tomas Mor : Utopia; Epigrammy; Istorija Richarda III 1 exemplar(es)
Luciani Cynicus ; Menippus, sive, Necromantia ; Philopseudes, sive, Incredulus ; Tyrannicida: Mori declamatio… 1 exemplar(es)
Thomq mori V.C. Dissertatio epistolica, de aliquot sui temporis Theologastrorum ineptijs; deque correctione… 1 exemplar(es)
Richard III. The great debate. Sir Thomas More. History of King Richard III. Horace Walpole: Historic Doubts on the… 1 exemplar(es)
30+ Classic Philosophy Book Collection: The Art of War, Poetics, The Republic, The Meditations, The Prince and others 1 exemplar(es)
The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition [newly updated] 1 exemplar(es)
Utopicheskii roman 16- 17 vekov. 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas More as Poet: An Anthology of the Poems of Sir Thomas More, Some Rendered from the Latin, the Rest from His… 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia (Short Story) 1 exemplar(es)
The Historie of the Pitifull Life, and unfortunate Death of Edward the fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke his brother 1 exemplar(es)
A dyaloge of syr Thomas More knyghte: one of the counsayll of our souerayne lorde the kyng and chauncelloure of hys… 1 exemplar(es)
Sir Thomas More's Utopia, tr. by Ralph Robinson: ed. from the first ed., with introduction and notes by Robert Steele.… 1 exemplar(es)
The dialogue of comfort against Tribulation 1 exemplar(es)
The life of Syr Thomas More : sometymes Lord Chancellor of England and ed. by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and Rt. Rev. Mgr.… 1 exemplar(es)
Latin epigrams; edited with translations and notes by Leicester Bradner and Charles Arthur Lynch 1 exemplar(es)
Morus ad Craneveldium : litterae balduinianae novae = More to Cranevelt : new Baudouin letters (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
Utopías del renacimiento 1 exemplar(es)
Saint Thomas More: Lettre à Dorp : la supplication des âmes 1 exemplar(es)
Utopía 1 exemplar(es)
The supplication of souls 1 exemplar(es)
The Utopian World of Sir Thomas More 1 exemplar(es)
L'Utopie Illustree (French Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas More - Bir Gün Filozoflar Kral Ya Da Krallar Filozof Olursa Insanlik O Zaman Mutluluga Kavusur: Vicdan… (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
The Saint Thomas More Collection 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia / Thomas More ; oversatt av Tor Ivar Østmoe ; [avsluttende essay av Kristin Gjerpe]. 1 exemplar(es)
On the Best State of A Commonwealth and On the New Island of Utopia A Truly Golden Handbook No Less Beneficial Than… 1 exemplar(es)
33 Masterpieces of Philosophy and Science to Read Before You Die (Illustrated): Utopia, The Meditations, The Art of… 1 exemplar(es)
Sakima: City of My Youth 1 exemplar(es)
Utopia - Bilingue Latim-Portugues (Em Portugues do Brasil) 1 exemplar(es)
More : A Utopia : 1 exemplar(es)
City At My Feet: Mannahatta Series Book 1 1 exemplar(es)
Sir Thomas More's Utopia 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines… (1999) — Contribuinte — 300 cópias
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (1963) — Contribuinte — 158 cópias
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume I Advent Season and Christmas Season) (1974) — Contribuinte — 96 cópias
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten Season and Easter Season) (1974) — Contribuinte — 82 cópias
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Contribuinte — 63 cópias
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Contribuinte — 23 cópias
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- More, Thomas
- Outros nomes
- MORE, Saint Thomas
MORE, Sir Thomas
MORUS, Tomas - Data de nascimento
- 1478-02-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1535-07-06
- Local de enterro
- 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) - Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Tower Hill, Stepney, London, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- executed
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University (1494)
New Inn
Lincoln’s Inn (1502)
St. Anthony's School, London, England, UK - Ocupação
- lawyer
politician
Master of Requests
Under-treasurer of the Exchequer
Speaker of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (mostrar todas 7)
Lord Chancellor - Relacionamentos
- Roper, William (son-in-law)
Lily, William (friend)
Roper, Margaret (daughter) - Premiações
- Canonized (1935)
- Pequena biografia
- 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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 189
- Also by
- 21
- Membros
- 14,903
- Popularidade
- #1,542
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 149
- ISBNs
- 678
- Idiomas
- 27
- Favorito
- 13
Characters: 3
Setting: 6.5
Prose: 8
As with Well's "A Modern Utopia", the book is not so much a story as a pleasant way to introduce an ideal society. Not entirely what I was looking for. Might I suggest Huxley's "Island" as a more relevant alternative?