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 Thomas More was born in 1478. He succeeded Wolsey as Lord Chancellor of England, but came into conflict with the king, Henry VIII, by refusing to acknowledge him as sole head of the Church. Charged with high treason, More steadfastly refused to takean oath impugning the pope's authority or upholding the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He was beheaded in 1535. Zusammenfassung In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Product details

• Authors: Saint Sir Thomas More, Thomas More, Thomas Morus
• Assisted by: Matthew Paul Turner (Translation), Paul Turner (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.08.2009
• EAN: 9780141043692
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104369-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas; Great Ideas; Penguin Classics; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Great Ideas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy