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Cambridge University Press - The Cambridge Companion To Thomas More - Paperback

Cambridge University Press - The Cambridge Companion To Thomas More - Paperback

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Description: This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth the book opens with essays on More's family early life and education his literary humanism virtuoso rhetoric illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism and his fall from power incarceration trial and execution. These chapters are followed by in - depth studies of five of More's major works - Utopia The History of King Richard the Third A Dialogue Concerning Heresies A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation and De Tristitia Christi - and a final essay on the varied responses to the man and his writings in his own and subsequent centuries. The volume provides an accessible overview of this fascinating figure to students and other interested readers whilst also presenting and in many areas extending the most important modern scholarship on him.
Title: The Cambridge Companion To Thomas More
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521716871
Pages: 330 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises; Printed Music Items
Publication Date: 1/27/2011
Series: Cambridge Companions to Religion
Category: Church History
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