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The Controversial Thomas More
- Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings
Engelsk Paperback
The Controversial Thomas More
- Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings
Engelsk Paperback

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The Controversial Thomas More offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas More and his opposition to King Henry VIII.

Thomas More is known for refusing the oath of succession and remaining silent about his reasons for doing so. His prison literature, however, tells a different story. Under the threat of execution, More waged an astonishingly prolific and often coded writing campaign in rebuke of King Henry VIII’s claim to be supreme head of the Church in England. Travis Curtright’s groundbreaking book shows how William Rastell, More’s nephew and printer, fashioned a historically inaccurate depiction of More, one that persists to this day. Rastell’s edition of More’s works gave the false impression that More stopped writing polemical literature in 1533 and, instead, turned his mind exclusively toward heaven and away from politics. In contrast, Curtright proves that More’s prison writings are not just devotional literature but also a powerful defense of a united Church under the pope, reestablishing More as a key political and religious thinker, defiant of King Henry VIII.

Most scholars restrict More’s political thought to his Utopia, but The Controversial Thomas More shows how his prison writings best reveal his ideas of political unity and authority, and is a reconsideration of More’s legacy and place in the history of the Henrician Reformation.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
260
ISBN-13:
9780268209155
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0268209154
Udg. Dato:
5 maj 2025
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of Notre Dame Press
Oplagsdato:
5 maj 2025
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