Joanne Paul

Thomas More (eBook, ePUB)

A Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pre-order now and discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century
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Born into the English Wars of the Roses, educated in the European Renaissance, enthralled by the Age of Exploration and ultimately destroyed by Henry VIII, Thomas More is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history.

Is he a saintly scholar, the visionary author of Utopia and an inspiration for statesmen, socialists and intellectuals even today?

Or is he the stubborn zealot famously portrayed in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall?

Thomas More: A Life is the definitive biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure. Overturning many received interpretations of the sixteenth century, Joanne Paul shows Thomas More to have been an intellectual and political giant of his age, central to the making of modern Europe. Based on new archival discoveries and drawing on more than a decade's research into More's life and work, this is a richly-told story of family, faith and politics, and a compelling portrait of a man who, more than four hundred years after his death, remains the most brilliant mind of the Renaissance.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405953634
• Artikelnr.: 72248014

Autorenporträt

Joanne Paul is a writer, broadcaster, consultant, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. She has written for the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context' series, and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Her current academic project is an edition of Thomas More's Utopia for the Oxford University Press.

Her first book for the trade, The House of Dudley was published in 2022. Thomas More: A Life is publishing Spring 2025.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vi
Abbreviations ix
Key Dates xi
Introduction: The Thought of Thomas More 1
1 Early Life, Education and Poetry 15
2 Utopia and 'Common Things' 29
3 Richard III and the Stage Play of Politics 60
4 The Common Corps of Christendom 83
5 Influence 116
Conclusion 141
Notes 146
References 158
Recommended Reading 169
Index 174

Rezensionen

"For too long, there have been multiple Mores: Thomas More - the 'man for all seasons' - has also seemed to be a man of many faces: More's identities as a statesman, humanist, and saint have seemed riven from each other and bafflingly incompatible. In this brilliant, lucid, and pithy account, Joanne Paul reunites More with himself by identifying the central idea that animated his thought and action. This is an original and illuminating work that should be compulsory for any reader of Utopia."-Suzannah Lipscomb, New College of the Humanities

"A well-organized introduction to Thomas More's body of writing, some published only posthumously, which deftly introduces a general university-level reader to his written corpus."-Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania

"Fascinating...Paul shows an impressive mastery of the assorted, disparate aspects of More's work."- Spiked Review