Research Catalog

Title

Thomas More : the King's good servant / Gordon Rupp ; [photography by Helmuth Nils Loose].

Author

Rupp, E. Gordon (Ernest Gordon), 1910-1986

Publication

London ; New York : Collins, 1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

Loose, Helmuth Nils.

Description

63 pages, 56 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), 2 coats of arms (1 color), facsimiles (1 color), portraits (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

The life and times of Sir Thomas More during the reign of King Henry the Eighth.

Subject

• More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
• Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 > Relations with humanists
• Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
• More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
• 1500-1599
• Statesmen > Great Britain > Biography
• Humanists > England > Biography
• Christian martyrs > England > Biography
• Christian martyrs
• Humanists
• Intellectual life
• Relations with humanists
• Statesmen
• Humanisten
• Great Britain > History > Henry VIII, 1509-1547 > Biography
• England > Intellectual life > 16th century
• England
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• History.
• Biographies.

Note

• Photos. by H. N. Loose are identical with those in Thomas Morus by W. Nigg, published in Freiburg by Herder in 1978.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 63.

Contents

The man of law -- The young humanist -- Erasmus -- Utopia -- 'Kings' games -- 'Defender of the faith' -- The household of Sir Thomas More -- The royal divorce -- The fall of Wolsey -- Lord Chancellor -- The battle of the books -- The reformation parliament -- Resignation -- 'Many and great dangers' -- The nun of Kent -- The prisoner of conscience -- More's last writings -- The royal supremacy -- The silences of Thomas More -- Trial -- A place of execution.

ISBN

• 0529054949
• 9780529054944
• 0002118629
• 9780002118620

LCCN

78056261

OCLC

• ocm04140595
• 4140595
• SCSB-14038158

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library