Utopia

Informationen zum Autor Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a page, then studied at Oxford, was called to the bar and subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with the Church. In July 1535, after he refused to accept royal supremacy over the church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935. Klappentext First published in 1516, "Utopia" depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance. Its radical humanism has had a dramatic effect on modern history and the challenge of its vision is as persistent today as it was in the Renaissance. Zusammenfassung First published in 1516! "Utopia" depicts an imaginary society free of private property! sexual discrimination and religious intolerance. Its radical humanism has had a dramatic effect on modern history and the challenge of its vision is as persistent today as it was in the Renaissance.

Product details

• Authors: Saint Thomas More, Sir Thomas More, Thomas More
• Assisted by: Ralph Robinson (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.1992
• EAN: 9781857150612
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-061-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 212 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Narrative theme: Politics, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Classic fiction, Political science and theory, Satirical fiction and parodies, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Satirical, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy