The Life of Thomas More 9780307823014, 0307823016

Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the mos

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The Life of Thomas More
9780307823014, 0307823016

The first comprehensive one-volume collection of St.Thomas More’s writing In this book, Wegemer and Smith assemble Mor

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Recent writings about Thomas More have questioned his integrity and motivation and have challenged the long-held view of

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This book is a study of the relations between tow outstanding contemporaries of whom an acquaintance wrote shortly after

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The year 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II's promulgation of Thomas More as Patron Saint of

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For the first time in forty years, the selected letters of St. Thomas More—son, husband, father, friend, statesman and m

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Thomas Roe, born near London in 1580 or 1581 was a notable and influential figure in the England of Elizabeth and of the

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Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main

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Karl Llewellyn described Thomas Scrutton as 'the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century'. Scr

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A religious historian argues that historical revisionism has distorted the religious views of Thomas Jefferson, making h

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