Controversial Thomas More

Name: Controversial Thomas More
Brand: University of Notre Dame Press
SKU: 9780268209148
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Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings

Autor: Travis Curtright

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Editura: University of Notre Dame Press

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The Controversial Thomas More offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas...

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Autor

Travis Curtright

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2025

Pagini

256

EAN

9780268209148

Enbook ID

46985308

Editura

University of Notre Dame Press

Greutate

516

Dimensiuni

152 x 229

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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.

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