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Author photo. Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,<br> Frick Collection, New York<br> (Yorck Project)

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Thomas More (1478–1535)

Author of Utopia

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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 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) — biography from Utopia… (more)
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Works by Thomas More
Utopia 11,172 copies, 109 reviews
Utopia (Norton Critical Editions) 719 copies, 4 reviews
Utopia: Thomas More 482 copies, 4 reviews
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More Including Roper's Life of More and Letters… 212 copies, 2 reviews
The Sadness of Christ (Yale University Press Translation) 165 copies, 3 reviews
A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation 158 copies, 3 reviews
Utopia and A Dialogue of Comfort 107 copies, 3 reviews
The Last Letters of Thomas More 97 copies, 2 reviews
History of King Richard III 81 copies, 2 reviews
Utopia and Other Writings 56 copies
Four Last Things / The Supplication of Souls / A Dialogue on Conscience 51 copies, 1 review
Saint Thomas More: Selected Writings 43 copies
The Essential Thomas More 42 copies, 1 review
Der utopische Staat : Morus: Utopia + Campanella: Sonnenstaat + Bacon:… (Author) 41 copies
Ideal Commonwealths (Contributor) 39 copies
Utopia with Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades' 39 copies
Three Renaissance Classics 38 copies, 1 review
Vagamundo (Author) 33 copies, 1 review
Selected letters 31 copies
Dialogue Concerning Heresies 31 copies
The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin… 27 copies
More's Utopia and its critics (Author) 22 copies
A Book for All Seasons: Readings for Every Day of the Year from the Works… 14 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 1,… 14 copies
Conscience decides : letters and prayers from prison written between April… 13 copies, 1 review
The Essential Works of Thomas More 13 copies
Thomas More's Prayer Book: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Annotated Pages… 12 copies
Utopia een bloemlezing 11 copies
The Tower Works: Devotional Writings (Yale Edition of the Complete Works… 11 copies, 1 review
La agonía de Cristo 10 copies
The complete works of St. Thomas More 10 copies
The Heart of Thomas More: Selected Readings for Everyday 9 copies
The Life of Pico 9 copies, 2 reviews
Delphi Collected Works of Sir Thomas More (Illustrated) (Delphi Series… 9 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part… 7 copies
The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 8, Parts… 7 copies
Un hombre solo. Cartas desde la torre 7 copies, 1 review
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 5,… 7 copies
Utopia and the History of Edward V 6 copies
Utopía y otras utopías del Renacimiento 6 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 10, The… 6 copies
Eloge de la folie / L'Utopie : Suivi de la Lettre d'Erasme… (Author) 6 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 15, In… 6 copies
The Latin Epigrams of Thomas More 6 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 9, The… 6 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 11, The… 5 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 13,… 5 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 7,… 5 copies
The correspondence of Sir Thomas More 5 copies
Epigramas 4 copies
Sir Thomas More : Selections From His English Works and From the Lives by… 4 copies
Ultimas Cartas 1532-1535 4 copies
A Sos Com Deus (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 3 copies
More - Os Pensadores 3 copies
Utopia : De optimo reipublicae statu 3 copies
Il dialogo del conforto nelle tribolazioni 3 copies
The Sadness of Christ (Yale University Press Translation) by Thomas, Sir,… 3 copies
AGONIA DE CRIST, L'-CARTES DES DE LA TORRE (Clàssics del… 3 copies, 1 review
Utopia (Yale Nota Bene) 3 copies
The complete works of St. Thomas More 3 copies
A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work of the best state of a public… 3 copies
The Utopia, Birmingham, London, '69 2 copies
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, edited by J.M. Rigg 2 copies
Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimiq́[ue] uiri Thomae Mori Britanni ad… 2 copies
Utopía o El estado feliz 2 copies
The Utopia, Macmillan, Oxford, '95 2 copies
Crumbs of comfort : from the Dialogue of comfort under tribulation by… 2 copies
Utopía - La Nueva Atlántida (Author) 2 copies
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part… 2 copies
More's Utopia and a Dialogue of Comfort. Introduction by John Warrington 2 copies
Utopia (Burnet Translation) 🎧 ❤ ✓ (Online-Audio-LibriVox) (Running… 2 copies
A utopia de Thomas More e a expansao portuguesa: resumo 2 copies
Diálogos de Luciano 2 copies
Lettere della prigionia 2 copies
More (Great Political Thinkers, 6) 2 copies
The "Utopia" and the History of Edward V., By Sir Thomas More. With… 2 copies
LA CITTA' DEL SOLE & UTOPIA 2 copies
The apologye of Syr Thomas More, Knyght / ed. by Arthur Irving Taft 2 copies
Gesù al Getsemani: De Tristitia Christi 2 copies
English prayers and treatise on the Holy Eucharist 2 copies
The Saint Thomas More Collection 2 copies
More's Utopia and Its Critics 2 copies
Utopia 2 copies
THOMAS MORE Premium Edition: Utopia, The History of King Richard III,… 2 copies
The "Utopia" and the history of Edward V. With Roper's life 2 copies
Carta A Un Monje 1 copy
Ein wahrhaft goldenes und ebenso heilsames wie erheiterndes Büchlein… (Author) 1 copy
Thomq mori V.C. Dissertatio epistolica, de aliquot sui temporis… 1 copy
Utopia. Der Staat als Utopie. Zweiter Band. 1 copy
Utopia. Aus dem Englischen und mit Anmerkungen von Curt Woyte. 1 copy
Os Pensadores - More 1 copy
LA AGONIA DE CRISTO 1 copy, 1 review
Piensa la muerte 1 copy
Autobiography of Mr. Thomas More (alias Ayeet Mort-Tii) 1 copy
Utopía: Prólogo de Fernando Savater. Edición y… 1 copy
St. Thomas More's History of the Passion, 1 copy
Lettere 1 copy
Erasmos de Rotterdam & Thomas More 1 copy, 1 review
Lettera ad Antonio Bonvisi 1 copy
Utopia. Testo latino a fronte 1 copy
Os pensadores: Thomas More - A utopia 1 copy
Last Letters of Blessed Thomas More 1 copy
Utopia : lo stato perfetto, ovvero, L'isola che non c'è 1 copy
Cartas de un humanista (Esenciales) (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
Cartas de un humanista (II) (Esenciales) (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
La Agonía de Cristo (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
More's History of King Richard III [Edited with notes, glossary and index… 1 copy
English Prayers and Treatise on the Holy Eucharist 1 copy
Pisma wiezienne 1 copy
Epistolario 1 copy
UTOPIA ED ELOGIO FOLLIA: Tommaso Moro ed Erasmo da Rotterdam 1 copy
Utopias del renacimiento : utopía , la ciudad del sol , nueva Atlántida 1 copy
A utopia - Coleção mestres pensadores 1 copy
Utopia - Địa Đàng Trần Gian 1 copy
The XII propertees or condicyons of a lover 1 copy
Thomae Mori ... Omnia, quae hucusque ad manus nostras peruenerunt, latina… 1 copy
De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova insula Utopia libri II. 1 copy
L'Utopie ["Utopia"], discours du très excellent homme… 1 copy
More's utopia: the biography of an idean 1 copy
Priere au Pere 1 copy
Thomas More: Estadista e Filósofo da Utopia 1 copy
The Supplication of Souls 1 copy
Utopia (The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More) by More… 1 copy
A dyaloge of syr Thomas More knyghte: one of the counsayll of our… 1 copy
Ideal Empires and Republics 1 copy
Sir Thomas More's Utopia, tr. by Ralph Robinson: ed. from the first ed.,… 1 copy
The godly instructions and prayers of blessed Sir Thomas More 1 copy
The Historie of the Pitifull Life, and unfortunate Death of Edward the… 1 copy, 1 review
Prayers of St Thomas More: A Guide for the Conscience 1 copy
Thomas More as Poet: An Anthology of the Poems of Sir Thomas More, Some… 1 copy
The English Works of Sir Thomas More, Volumes I and II 1 copy
Utopia (Short Story) 1 copy
The dialogue of comfort against Tribulation 1 copy
The life of Syr Thomas More : sometymes Lord Chancellor of England and ed.… 1 copy
Utopías del renacimiento 1 copy
Saint Thomas More: Lettre à Dorp : la supplication des âmes 1 copy
Utopia: written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England.… 1 copy
Luciani Cynicus ; Menippus, sive, Necromantia ; Philopseudes, sive,… 1 copy
Praying with Saint Thomas More 1 copy
Latin epigrams; edited with translations and notes by Leicester Bradner… 1 copy
Morus ad Craneveldium : litterae balduinianae novae = More to Cranevelt :… 1 copy
La pitoyable vie du Roi Edouard V et les cruautés horribles du Roi… 1 copy
Tomas Mor : Utopia; Epigrammy; Istorija Richarda III 1 copy
Meditaties in de Tower : Over het zielelijden en de doodsangst van onze… 1 copy
Τρία κείμενα για την ουτοπία: Thomas More… 1 copy
Utopia Annotated 1 copy
On the best state of a commonwealth and on the new island of Utopia; a… 1 copy
UTOPIA WITH THE DIALOGUE OF COMFORT. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY NO. 461 1 copy
A utopia - Diálogo sobre o conforto espiritual e a atribulação 1 copy
Utopia - Bilíngue (Latim-Português): Nova… 1 copy
Tomáš Morus : dopisy z vězení 1 copy
De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libri II. Auctore… 1 copy
ST. THOMAS MORE: SELECTED LETTERS. EDITED BY ELIZABETH FRANCES ROGERS 1 copy
Utopia - eBook 1 copy
Utopia : Auswahl Lehrerheft [...] 1 copy
De optimo reip(ublicae) statu deque nova insula Utopia 1 copy
The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The… 1 copy
Utopicheskii roman 16- 17 vekov. 1 copy
The Household of Sir Thomas More 1 copy
Richard III. The great debate. Sir Thomas More. History of King Richard… 1 copy
Four Early Modern Utopias: Utopia, New Atlantis, The Isle of Pines, The… 1 copy
Utopia - Địa đàng trần gian 1 copy
Ütopya 1 copy
More's Utopia, tr. by R. Robynson, pr. from the 2nd ed., 1556. To… 1 copy
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World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Contributor) 427 copies, 1 review
Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New… (Contributor) 284 copies, 1 review
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (Contributor) 273 copies, 1 review
The Prince; Utopia; Ninety-Five Theses (Contributor) 249 copies
A Man of Singular Virtue (Contributor) 175 copies, 2 reviews
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to… (Contributor) 149 copies
The Road to Science Fiction #1: From Gilgamesh to Wells (Contributor) 142 copies, 1 review
The Utopia Reader (Contributor) 104 copies, 1 review
Dystopia Utopia: Short Stories (Contributor) 103 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume I Advent… (Contributor) 83 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten… (Contributor) 80 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The… (Contributor) 59 copies
Meeting of Minds: First Series (Subject) 51 copies, 2 reviews
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (Contributor) 38 copies, 1 review
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (Contributor) 23 copies, 1 review
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Canonical name
More, Thomas
Legal name
Other names
MORE, Saint Thomas
MORE, Sir Thomas
MORUS, Tomas
Date of birth
1478-02-07
Date of death
1535-07-06
Burial location
Royal Chapel of St. Peter Ad Vincula, Tower of London, London, UK
Gender
male
Nationality
England
Country (for map)
UK
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Place of death
Tower Hill, Stepney, London, England, UK
Cause of death
executed
Places of residence
London, England, UK
Education
Oxford University (1494)
New Inn
Lincoln’s Inn (1502)
St. Anthony's School, London, England, UK
Occupations
lawyer
politician
Master of Requests
Under-treasurer of the Exchequer
Speaker of the House of Commons
Relationships
Roper, William (son-in-law)
Lily, William (friend)
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Awards and honors
Canonized (1935)
Short biography
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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