Biography of thomas more

  • Thomas more famous works
  • Where was thomas more born
  • Thomas more interesting facts

    • •

    Thomas More

    English politician, author and philosopher (–)

    "Sir Thomas More" redirects here. For the play, see Sir Thomas More (play).

    For other people named Thomas More, see Thomas More (disambiguation).

    Sir Thomas MorePC (7 February – 6 July ), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More,[2] was an English lawyer, judge,[3] social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist.[4] He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October to May [5] He wrote Utopia, published in , which describes the political struktur of an imaginary island state.[6]

    More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherin

    •

    Thomas More

    1. Introduction

    According to Erasmus, the young Thomas More “devoted himself to the study of Greek literature and philosophy”, and

    [a]s a youth even worked on a dialogue in which he supported Plato’s doctrine of communalism, extending it even to wives. (23 July letter to Ulrich von Hutten [EW –7; –96])

    Commenting on the older More, Erasmus described him as having a “clearly philosophic character” (late letter to John Faber [EW ]) and a home that could rightly be called “another Platonic academy” but which gave first place to piety, Scripture, and the wisest and most saintly Church Fathers (late [EW ] and 22 May <> letter to William Gonell [EW –90]). It was also a home in which his daughters received the same education as his son (c. September letter to Guillaume Budé [EW –76]). As the More scholar Elizabeth McCutcheon recently summarized the education of More’s daughte

  • biography of thomas more

    • •

    Thomas More ( - )

    Sir Thomas More  ©More was an English lawyer, scholar, writer, member of parliament and chancellor in the reign of Henry VIII. He was executed for refusing to recognise Henry VIII's divorce and the English church's break with Rome.

    Thomas More was born on 7 February in London, the son of a successful lawyer. As a boy, More spent some time in the household of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury. He later studied at Oxford, and qualified as a lawyer, although he did contemplate becoming a monk. From to he was one of the two under-sheriffs of London and in entered the king's service, becoming one of Henry VIII's most effective and trusted civil servants and acting as his secretary, interpreter, speech-writer, chief diplomat, advisor and confidant. In he was knighted, in , he became the speaker of the House of Commons and in chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

    At the same time More was building a reputation as a scholar. He was close to the radical cathol