A Thomas More Source Book

edited by Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith

Catholic University of America Press, 2004
eISBN: 978-0-8132-1632-4 | Paper: 978-0-8132-1376-7
Library of Congress Classification DA334.M8T455 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 942.052092

ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This Source Book brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More--poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, historian, and saint

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
List of Illustrations					i
Acknowledgements					iii
Introduction						v
1. Earliest Accounts of Thomas More's Life		
	Erasmus on Thomas More, 1519			
	Holbein's Thomas More and His Household, c. 1526	
	Roper's Life of Thomas More, c. 1556			
	Munday & Shakespeare's Sir Thomas More, c. 1592	
2. Writings on Love and Friendship			
	Contrasting Poems: "On His First Love"; "Twelve 
	 Properties of the Lover"; "On Detachment"	
	Letters: To John Colet, To His Children, 
		To Lady Alice, To Antonio Bonvisi 		
	Plutarch's "How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend"	
	More's "On a False Friend"				
	
3. Writings on Education 				
	Letter to Gonell, the Teacher of More's Children	
	Letters to His Children				
	Letter to Oxford					
	Conscience and Integrity; On Pride				
	Erasmus on More's Approach to Education		
4. Writings on Government 					 
	Holbein's Henry VIII; Dealing with Lions		
	Poems on the Human Condition and the Art of 
	 Governing						
	Poems on Politics					
	"Petition for Freedom of Speech" (1523) 		
	Defense of the Liberty of the House			
	On Private Property, Riches, Poverty			
	On Law and Liberty				
	
5. Writings on Religion					
	More's Conception of God				
	Private Judgment and God's Word			
	The Two Swords; Heresy and Just War		
	Defense of the Clergy				
	On the Condition of Church and State in England	
6. More's Last Days					
	Letter to Erasmus after Resigning as Lord
	 Chancellor, June 1533				
	More's Account of His First Interrogation: 
	 17 April 1534					
	Dialogue on Conscience: August 1534			
	"Tale of Mother Maud": On Conscience Again, 
	 1534-1535					
	Interrogations: 2 May 1535; 3 June 1535		
	Trial and Execution, Paris Newsletter's Account	
	Last Words: 6 July 1535					
Appendices 							
Chronologies of Thomas More's Life and Writings	
Maps: The Life and Travels of Thomas More		
Roper's Life: A Study Outline					
Works Cited							
Index						 
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535, Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Biography, Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 Relations with humanists, Great Britain Politics and government 1509-1547, Christian martyrs England Biography, Statesmen Great Britain Biography, Humanists England Biography

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