The life of Thomas More

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Label

The life of Thomas More

Statement of responsibility

Peter Ackroyd

Creator

• trueAckroyd, Peter, 1949-

Subject

• Biographies
• Christian martyrs
• trueChristian martyrs -- England -- 16th century -- Biography
• trueChristian martyrs -- England -- Biography
• England
• Great Britain
• trueGreat Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547
• trueGreat Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Biography
• trueGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- 1509-1547
• History
• Humanists
• trueHumanists -- Biography
• trueHumanists -- England -- Biography
• trueIntellectual life -- Great Britain -- 16th century
• 1509-1547
• More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
• More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
• truePoliticians -- Great Britain -- 16th century -- Biography
• Politics and government
• Statesmen
• trueStatesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
• trueLawyers -- Great Britain -- Biography

Genre

• trueHistory
• trueBiographies
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

"Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history - and arguably the most brilliant lawyer the English-speaking world has ever known. Thomas More was a renowned statesman, the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia), and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint, who was beheaded when he refused to follow his sovereign, King Henry VIII, in severing England's ties from the Catholic Church."--BOOK JACKET. "Ackroyd shows dramatically how the clouds of Reformation that swarmed over the European continent unleashed the storm of the early modern period that swept away More's world and took his life. He clarifies the whirl of dynastic, religious, and mercantile politics that brought the autocratic Henry VIII and the devout More into their fateful conflict. And he narrates the unrelenting drama of More's final days - his detention, trial, and execution - with a novelist's mastery of suspense."--Jacket

Award

• ALA Notable Book, 1999.
• Booklist Editors' Choice, 1998.
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, 1998.
• New York Times Notable Book, 1998

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

FEM

Dewey number

• 942.05/2/092
• B
• 942.052 M836A
• 942.052

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DA334.M8

LC item number

A64 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography