Thomas More Source Book
This source book brings together classic text by and about Thomas More - poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, historian, and saint. In addition to serving as an introduction to More's life and writings for the general reader, this collection is a helpful companion to the study of More's literary and philosophical masterwork, Utopia, and to the study of sixteenth-century history, literature, philosophy, or politics.
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This source book brings together classic text by and about Thomas More - poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, historian, and saint. In addition to serving as an introduction to More's life and writings for the general reader, this collection is a helpful companion to the study of More's literary and philosophical masterwork, Utopia, and to the study of sixteenth-century history, literature, philosophy, or politics.
Erasmus on Thomas More, 15193Roper's life of Sir Thomas More, knight, c. 155616Munday & Shakespeare's Sir Thomas More, c. 159266Contrasting poems : "On his first love"; "Twelve properties of a lover"; More's psalm on detachment161Contrasting letters : to John Colet; to his children; to his wife; to Antonio Bonvisi175Plutarch's "How to tell a flatterer from a friend"; More's "On a false friend"185Letter to William Gonell, the teacher of More's children197Letters to his children201Letter to Oxford university204Conscience and integrity212On pride215Erasmus on More's approach to education221On dealing with lions231Poems on the human condition and the art of governing233Other poems on politics235"Petition for freedom of speech" (1523)240More defends the liberty of the house : Roper's account243On private property, riches, and poverty246On law and liberty253More's conception of God261Private judgment and God's word270The two swords; heresy and just war281Defense of the clergy291On the condition of church and state in England299Letter to Erasmus after resigning as lord chancellor, June 1533305More's account of his first interrogation, 17 April 1534311A dialogue on conscience, August 1534316"Tale of Mother Maud" : on conscience again, 1534-1535336More's interrogation of 2 May 1535343More's final interrogation, 3 June 1535347Trial and execution : Paris & Newsletter's account352Last words before execution, 6 July 1535357AppChronologies of Thomas More's life and writings361AppMaps : the life and travels of Thomas More366AppRoper's life : a study outline372
