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Curtright, Travis

 
9780268209155: The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings
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ISBN 10 : 0268209154 ISBN 13 : 9780268209155
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Controversial Thomas More offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas More and his opposition to King Henry VIII. Thomas More is known for refusing the oath of succession and remaining silent about his reasons for doing so. His prison literature, however, tells a different story. Under the threat of execution, More waged an astonishingly prolific and often coded writing campaign in rebuke of King Henry VIII’s claim to be supreme head of the Church in England. Travis Curtright’s groundbreaking book shows how William Rastell, More’s nephew and printer, fashioned a historically inaccurate depiction of More, one that persists to this day. He asserted while imprisoned in the Tower of London, More stopped his polemical writing and turned his mind exclusively toward heaven. In contrast, Curtright proves that More’s prison writings are not just devotional literature but also a powerful defense of a united Church under the pope, reestablishing More as a key political and religious thinker, defiant of King Henry VIII. Most scholars restrict More’s political thought to his Utopia, but The Controversial Thomas More shows how his prison writings best reveal his ideas of political unity and authority, and is a reconsideration of More’s legacy and place in the history of the Henrician Reformation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Travis Curtright is professor of humanities and literature at Ave Maria University. He is the author or editor of four previous books, including The One Thomas More, and is the editor-in-chief of Moreana: Thomas More and Renaissance Studies.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268209154
ISBN 13 
9780268209155
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
University of Notre Dame Press
https://www.nd.edu/

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