Thomas More

Joanne Paul (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2016
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-9217-3 (ISBN)

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Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist. His work spans contemporary disciplines from history to politics to literature, and his ideas have variously been taken up by seventeenth-century reformers and nineteenth-century communists. Through a comprehensive treatment of More's writing, from his earliest poetry to his reflections on suffering in the Tower of London, Joanne Paul engages with both the rich variety and some of the fundamental consistencies that run throughout More's works. In particular, Paul highlights More's concern with the destruction of what is held 'in common', whether it be in the commonwealth or in the body of the church. In so doing, she re-establishes More's place in the history of political thought, tracing the reception of his ideas to the present day.

Paul's book serves as an essential foundation for any student encountering More's writing for the first time, as well as providing an innovative reconsideration of the place of his works in the history of ideas.

Joanne Paul is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Classic Thinkers series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 226 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-7456-9217-6 / 0745692176
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-9217-3 / 9780745692173
Zustand	Neuware