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Thomas More: A Life

Thomas More: A Life

Paul, Joanne

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralPolitical BiographiesMedieval & Renaissance History

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1639368795
ISBN13: 9781639368792
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.95
Height: 2.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More.

Born into the era of the Wars of the Roses, educated during the European Renaissance, rising to become Chancellor of England, and ultimately destroyed by Henry VIII, Thomas More was one of the most famous--and notorious--figures in English history.

Was he a saintly scholar, the visionary author of Utopia, and an inspiration for statesmen and intellectuals even today? Or was he the cruel zealot famously portrayed in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall? Thomas More: A Life is a monumental biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure. Overturning prior interpretations of this titan of the sixteenth century, Joanne Paul shows Thomas More to have been intellectually and politically central to the making of modern Europe.

Based on new archival discoveries and drawing on more than a decade of research into More's life and work, this is a richly told story of faith and politics that illuminates a man who, more than four hundred years after his execution, remains one of the most brilliant minds of the Renaissance.

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