Thomas More 9780300162202

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. The Search for the Inner Man
2. The Order of the Heart
3. The Order of the Heart
4. De Tristitia: Last Address to the World and to the Self
Notes
Index

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THOMAS

MORE

THOMAS

MORE The Search for the Inner Man L O U I S L. M A R T Z

Yale University Press 243/6-8,573/2. 8 See Garry Haupt's discussion in C W, 13 : xcv-c. 9 CW, 141117-43. 10 See C W, 12: Ixxix-lxxxiii and CW, 14:741 n.

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Aesop, 57, 61 Alexander the Great, 89 Alington, Alice, letter to Margaret Roper, 57-60, 64 Anabaptists, 6 Aquinas, Thomas, St., 34, 38 Ariosto, Ludovico, 96 Audley, Sir Thomas: fables told by, 57-58, 60-61, 64, 72 Augustine, St., 87-88; polemical writings by, 21; technique of digression in, 34—35,3738; De Trinitate, 34; Epistle of St. John, 34 Basset, Mary: translation of De Tristitia by, 50—51, 85,102 Bernard of Clairvaux, St., 14 Boethius: Consolation, 13; poem by, 14 Boleyn, Anne, 5 Bolt, Robert: A Man for All Seasons, 3 Bosco, Philip, 3 Brockwell, M. W., 104718 Camoens, Luiz Vaz de, 96 Cassian, John, 70 Chambers, R. W.: biography of More by, 3,19,1077110 Cicero, 89 Colet, John, 17 Cranmer, Thomas, 55 Cresacre, Anne, 6

Cromwell, Thomas, 24,27,5556,60,103 715; prosecutions by, 5-6 Dauncey, Elizabeth, 6,13 Derrett, Duncan, 107-087110 Eliot, T. S.: Murder in the Cathedral, 74 Elton, G. R.: studies of More by, 3,103711,1047110,1057117; view of More's controversial writings, 19-20; studies of Cromwell, 103 715 Erasmus, Desiderius, 6,17, 92; says More wanted a wife, 18, 105 7116; called More's "darling," 36; influence on De Tristitia, 86-87,108713 Fables: told by Audley, 57-58; interpreted by More, 60-61; "Mother Maud's" fable of fox, wolf, and ass, 63-64, 72-73 Foley, Stephen, 42,107714 Fowler, John: preface to Dialogue of Comfort, 66-67 Fox, Alistair, 106 7123,1067126 Foxe, John, 3 Frick Collection: portrait of More in, 8-9 Frith, John, 22

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Index Gerson, John: Monotessaron, 43,49-50, 85 Giggs (Clement), Margaret, 6, 8, 13,71 Greenblatt, Stephen, 21,1067123 Grocyn, William, 16-17, 37 Guy, John A., 103 n6,106 7126 Hallett, Philip, 104 7114 Harpsfield, Nicholas: life of More by, 14-17,64,104 ni2, 104 7113,107717 Haupt, Garry, 107 n6,108 nS Henry VII, 16 Henry VIII, 27, 60, 67; treatise against Luther (Assertio), 5, 19-20; attacked by Luther, 19-20 Herbert, George, 91 Heron, Cecily, 8,13 Hexter,J.H., 106 7128 Holbein, Hans, the Younger, 103—0477.7; drawing of More family by, 6-8; portrait drawings of More by, 8-9,19,22; oil portrait of More by, 8-9; Lockey copy of More family portrait by, 9-13 Horace, 89,108715 Hunne, Richard, 103 714,105067121 Hythlodaeus, Raphael, 26-27 Juvenal, 89 Latimer, Hugh, 55 Linacre, Thomas, 17,1047113

Lockey, Rowland: Holbein portrait copied by, 9-13 Ludolph the Carthusian: Vita Christi, 91-92 Lupset, Thomas, 16,104 7113 Lusardi, James, 106712 Luther, Martin, 23,33,41, 71; controversy with Henry VIII and More, 5,19-20 Manley, Frank, 107717,107 718 Marc'hadour, Germain, 107 715, 108712 Maritain, Jacques, 34,106713 Marius, Richard: biography of More, 3-4,19-20,103711, 103713,104 nio, 1057118, 1O57121, 1O6 7122

Miller, Clarence, 42,105 7115, 107714,107718,108711 Milton, John, 96; defense of polemical style by, 20-21; Apology, 20,105 7119; Animadversions, 20,105 7120; Paradise Lost, 21 More, Alice, 8,13 More, John (father of Thomas), 6,13,18; insists on son's legal career, 15 More, John (son of Thomas), 6 More, Thomas, Sir or St.: prosecution of heretics by, 3-6; Holbein drawings and painting, 6-13; performs devotions at Charterhouse, 9,14, 16-17; humanist qualities of, 9-14, 86-102; "Academy"

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Index of, 13-14; letter to his children, 13-14; ascetic practices of, 14; sexual desire in, 14, 18,1067724; attitude toward marriage, 14,18,1047114, 105 7116; youthful interests of, 14-18; contemplation of priesthood or monastic life, 14-18,104 7114,105 7116; education of, 15; legal career of, 15-17; gives lectures on Augustine, 16, 37; fury against heresy in writings of, 19-25; style in polemical writings by, 19-26; attacks marriage of priests and nuns, 23, 32-34, 41; dialogue with daughter Margaret, 5863; art of improvisation by, 59; scruple of conscience in, 59-62 Answer to a Poisoned Book, 42-44,107 714; Apol°SV> 4-5/ 22-26, 31, 38, 43, 1061127,106HI; Confutation, 23-24, 31-41,106712; structure of, 31-34; function of repetitions in, 34-37; technique of digression in, 34-35; Augustinian mode of writing in, 34-38; digression on "no" and "nay" in, 35-36; passage on "Erasmus my darling" in, 36-37; citation of Augustine in, 37; styles of More and Tyndale contrasted, 37-38; satisfaction for sins

in, 39-41; De Tristitia, 4551, 85-102,107718; problem of fearful martyr in, 45-47, 92-95; attitudes toward prayer in, 46; discussion of irony in, 47-48, 87-89; mode of controversy in, 47-49; abrupt ending of, 49-51,101-02; reasons for change to Latin in, 85-86; debt to Erasmus in, 86-87, 108713; classical allusions in, 89-90,108 n6; qualities of style in, 86, 90-92,96, 98, 101-02; voice of self in, 96, 99-100; Valencia MS of, 64, 82, 86, 91; Dialogue of Comfort, 42, 45, 47, 57, 63-82, 85,107717; beast fable in, 6364, 72-73; design of, 67-82; Lutheran sermon in, 71-72; discussion of suicide in, 7374; chapter divisions in, 7576; Psalm 90 in, 76-80; Corpus Christi MS of, 65; new MS of, 1087112; Dialogue Concerning Heresies, 105-067121; Last Things, 14,1047111; letters from the Tower, 55-64; Lucian, translation by, 90, 92; prayer book marginalia, 74, 1087111; Responsio ad Lutherum, 19-20,89,105 7121; Richard 111, 98,1057121; Treatise on the Passion, 42-44,96-97, 107716; Utopia, 26-27, 75' 86, 92, 96,1057121,106 7128

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Index Morison, Stanley, 104718 Morton, John, Cardinal, 15,18 Nostell Priory, 9 Nun of Kent, 6, 74 Parker, K. T., 103-041*7 Pascal, Blaise: Pensees, 34-35, 38,106 713 Patenson, Henry, 6 Philips, Thomas, 4-5,103 714 Polemical writing: nature of, 21 Raphael, 96 Rastell, William, 44, 49, 64, 104 nn, 107717 Rogers, Elizabeth Frances, 104 719,107713 Roper, Margaret, 8,13, 55, 65, 107 717; severe illness of, 18; letter allegedly written by, 57-64; dialogue with her father, 58-63 Roper, William, 14 St. German, Christopher: attacked by More, 19, 23-26; Division, 22-26 Salmasius, Claudius, 21 Santinello, Giovanni, 108 712, 108 714

Schoeck, Richard, 106712 Schuster, Louis, 43,106 712 Scofield, Paul, 3 Seneca, 13 Spenser, Edmund, 96 Stapleton, Thomas: life of More by, 1047114 Stokesley, John, 5 Surtz, Edward, 1067128 Sylvester, Richard, 103721, 108712,1087111 Terence, 89 Thomas a Kempis: Imitation of Christ, 98 Trapp, J. B., 106711 Tunstall, Cuthbert, 5,19 Tyndale, William, 19, 23, 1067125; More's confutation of, 31-41; doctrine of, 37-38; style of, 37-40; translation of Bible by, 43 Vergil, 89 Von Hutten, Ulrich, 105 7116 Warham, William, 19 Wilson, Nicholas, 56 Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, 60