The reader might here think of the film 12 Angry Men (1957), or perhaps a work already a classic in More's day, Piers Plowman, by William Langland. Enraged that Company is delaying the verdict by his stubborn resistance, the eleven try ...
Most previous biographers of Thomas More have sought to prove him a saint; in this, the first full-scale biography of More in half a century, Richard Marius, a leading Reformation historian, seeks to restore the man.
Raised in London, the son of a school master, Thomas More became a great scholar, Oxford graduate and lawyer.
This book was the last that St. Thomas More wrote in the Tower of London before he was executed for standing firm in his Catholic faith.
This book, weaving together the history and genealogy of the More family and of the other families to which they allied themselves by marriage, provides an illuminating sequel to the...
Named after a word that translates literally to “nowhere,” Utopia is an island dreamed up by Thomas More, a devout Catholic, English statesman, and Renaissance humanist who would be canonized as a saint centuries after he was executed ...
A realistic portrayal of the life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas More, who courageously chose God over his position of power.
kings and nobles King Edward IV, oldest son of Richard Duke of York Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward V; ... Sir Anthony Woodville, her brother; arrested and beheaded Lord Richard Grey, her second son by Squire John Grey; ...
The great merit of this biography by E.E. Reynolds is that it vividly portrays the whole More, his spiritual life as well as his court, family, social, and intellectual activity.
No doubt a second generation of readers will welcome this TAN Legend edition of A Man Born Again: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Thomas More , as twenty-first-century political trends call for heroic Catholic resistance to government ...