Library Index
Table of Contents
Biographical Accounts
Paris Newsletter Account of More's Trial, 1535
Erasmus' Letters about More
- To Ulrich Von Hutten, English
- To Ulrich Von Hutton, Latin (23 July 1519, EE 999)
- To William Bude, Latin (<September> 1521, EE 1233)
- To John Faber, Latin (< End of 1532>, EE 2750)
Life of Thomas More by William Roper (More's son-in-law), 1556 {Fordham University} — Student Version with Notes
The Life and Illustrious Martyrdom of Sir Thomas More by Thomas Stapleton, 1588
The Life of Sir Thomas More, Knight by Cresacre More, 1649 {Google Books}
The Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More by T. E. Bridgett, 1892 {Google Books}
Genealogy
Principal Line of Descendants through Thomas More's One Son, John
Thomas More's Nephews and Nieces: The Rastells, the Heywoods, and the Donnes
Historical Documents
Magna Carta, 1215 {The Constitution Society}
More's "Petition for Free Speech," 1523 — Modernized Version
More's Address to the Parliament of 1529, 8 Nov: Chapuys' Account
More's Address to the Parliament of 1529, 8 Nov: Hall's Account
Thomas More Excluded from Court Session, 15 June 1530
Thomas More Almost Dismissed, 20 September 1530
Thomas More's Report to Parliament, 2 April 1531
Thomas More on Blindness of Princes, 11 April 1531
Henry VIII Visits Parliament Three Times, 6 March 1532
Henry VIII Divides the House (First on Record), 26 March 1532
Samuel Johnson's History of the English Language: Thomas More
Edward Hall's The Lives of the Kings: Henry VIII
- 1517 May Day Riot and background, I.153-64
- 1518 Oration for London, I.167
- 1519 Reform, King's Council, I.177-8
- 1522 Charles V Oration, I.250
- 1522 Why Turks Conquered, I.279-83
- 1523 Oration, Speaker of House, I.279
- 1525 Oration before Emperor, II.64-65
- 1529 Speech to Parliament, II.163-65
- 1529 Treaty of Cambray, II.158
- 1531 Opinions on Divorce, II.185-95
- 1532 More Resigns, II.212
- 1534 More Answers Frith, II.261-62
- 1534 More Imprisoned, II.260
- 1535 Fisher & More Executed, II.264-66
Complete Works
Workes of Sir Thomas More, 1557
- The workes of Sir Thomas More Knight, 1557
- Letter to Queen Mary
- Table of the workes and things conteyned in thys volume
- A table of many matters conteined in this booke
- [Four English Poems]
- The Life of John Picus, p. 1
- The history of king Richard the thirde, p. 35
- A Treatyce upon the last thynges, p. 72
- A Dialogue concernynge heresyes, p. 104
- The Supplicacion, p. 288
- The Confvtacion of Tyndales Avnsvvere, p. 339
- A letter of Sir Thomas More to John Frith, p. 833
- The apology of Syr Thomas More knight, p. 845
- The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance, p. 929
- The answer to the poysoned booke, p. 1035
- A Dyalogue of comforte agaynste tribulacyon, p. 1139
- A treatice to receave the blessed body of our lorde, p. 1265
- A treatice upon the passion of Chryste, p. 1270
- Deuout and vertuous instruccions, meditacions, and prayers, p. [1405]
- [Letter to Thomas More's Wife], p. 1419
- [Epitaph for his tomb, written by T. More in summer of 1532], p. 1419
- Foure letters [written after resigning &] before he was imprisoned, p. 1422
- Letters and other thyngs [written while] prisoner in the towre, p. 1428
- [Dialogue on Conscience], p. 1433
- [Other Prison Letters], p. 1443
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12
Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13
Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Thomae Mori Opera Omnia Latina, 1689 Francofurti et Lipsiae
- Title page and frontispiece
- Historiae Richardi Tertii, pp. 1-26
- Responsio ad Convitia Lvtheri, pp. 27-87 (Part 1)
- Responsio ad Convitia Lvtheri, pp. 88-146 (Part 2)
- Expositio Passionis Christi, pp. 147-178
- Quod Mos Pro Fide, pp. 179-180
- Precatio ex Psalmis, pp. 181-186
- Utopia, pp. 186-230
- Poemata, pp. 231-256
- Dialogi Lucianei, pp. 257-282
- Epistolae, pp. 283-351
Works (Alternate Editions)
Life of John Picus (Giovanni Pico), c. 1510
The History of King Richard III, c. 1513-1518
- Concordance for Richardi Tertii in CW 15
- Richard III, Modernized English,ChooseLayout: Small (2 pages per 8.5" x 11" sheet) | Large (1 page per 8.5" x 11" sheet)
- Richard III, Study Outline and Guide,Choose Layout: Small (2 pages per 8.5" x 11" sheet) | Large (1 page per 8.5" x 11" sheet)
- Richard III, 1557 Text
- Richard III, 1566 Latin Text with Ben Jonson's Annotations, Courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral and its Library (Facsimile JPEGs)
- * See edition in Thomae Mori Opera Omnia Latina above
- **Also see 2006 Conference on Richard III
Title Page | Page 44v-45r | Page 45v-46r | Page 46v-47r | Page 47v-48r | Page 48v-49r | Page 49v-50r
Page 50v-51r | Page 51v-52r | Page 52v-53r | Page 53v-54r | Page 54v-55r | Page 55v-56r | Page 56v
- Utopia, 1516, Full English Text, Gilbert Burnet's Translation {University of Virginia}
- Utopia, 1518 Edition {Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld}
- Utopia, Cambridge Revised Edition {Amazon}
- Utopia, Study Outline (for Cambridge Revised Edition) © CTMS
- Bibliography to Utopia {Library and Archives Canada}
- * See edition in Thomae Mori Opera Omnia Latina above
- **Also see 2005 Conference on Utopia
Part 1 – The Remembrance of Death | Part 2 – Of Pride and Envy | Part 3 – Of Covertousness, Gluttony, and Sloth
The Dialogue Concerning Heresies, 1529
- The Dialogue Concerning Heresies © CTMS
- The Dialogue Concerning Heresies, Modernized Version, 2006 {Amazon}
- The Dialogue Concerning Heresies, Study Outline (for Modernized Version, 2006) © CTMS
- * See 2007 Conference on Dialogue Concerning Heresies
Synopsis | Intro-1.3 | 1.4-1.14 | 1.15-1.21 | 1.22-1.26 | 1.27-1.31 | 2.1-2.8
2.9-2.12 | 3.1-3.5 | 3.6-3.14 | 3.15-3.16 | 4.1-4.9 | 4.10-4.13 | 4.14-4.18
A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, 1534
- A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, 1847 Edition
- A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, Modernized Version, 1998 {Amazon}
- Study Outline (Appendix to Modernized Version, 1998)
Book 1 | Book 2 | Book 3, Part 1 | Book 3, Part 2
The Four Last Things / The Supplication of Souls / Dialogue on Conscience, Modernized Version {Amazon}
The Sadness of Christ, 1535 (Mary Basset's 1557 Translation)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
The Sadness of Christ, Modern Translation {Amazon}
Instructions and Prayers
A Godly Instruction [on How to Treat Those Who Wrong Us], c. 1534 — Modernized Version
Prayers from the Treatise on the Passion, c. 1534
* See "A treatice upon the passion of Chryste" in Workes of Sir Thomas More above
Final Poem on Detachment ("A Godly Meditation")
A Devout Prayer [before Dying], July 1535
Poems
Coronation Ode of King Henry VIII, 1509, 500th Anniversary Edition
English Poems, c. 1496-1504, 1535
- "The Early Poems" from The English Works of Thomas More
- A Merry Jest, Annotated Version © CTMS
- The Pageant of Life (1492-1501), Annotated Version © CTMS
- A Rueful Lamentation, Annotated Version © CTMS
- Book of Fortune, Annotated Version © CTMS
- Fortune Poems of 1535, Annotated Version © CTMS
- Psalm on Detachment
- * See poems at the end of Life of John Picus 500th Anniversary Edition below
Latin Poems, 1500-1520
- Coronation Ode and Latin Poem No. 19 with Ben Jonson's Annotations, Courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral and its Library (Facsimile JPEGs)
- * See poems in Thomae Mori Opera Omnia Latina above
Title Page | Page 20v-21r | Page 21r
Correspondence, 1499-1535
- Erasmi Epistolae, 1499-1535
NOTE: Selections below from Erasmus, Desiderius. Erasmi epistolae [EE]. Ed. P.S. Allen et al. 12 vols. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford UP, 1906-55. Available translations are indicated to the right in parentheses: See The Collected Works of Erasmus [CWE], U of Toronto P, 1974-. Or see St. Thomas More: Selected Letters [SL], ed. Elizabeth F. Rogers, Yale UP, 1961.
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- Volume 3
- Volume 4
- Volume 5
- Volume 6
- Volume 7
- Volume 8
- Volume 10
- Volume 11
EE 114, To TM, 28 Oct 1499 (CWE 1 227)
EE 222, To TM, 9 June <1511> (CWE 2 161-164)
EE 337, From Erasmus to Martin Dorp <May fin> 1515 (CWE 3 111-139, SL 6-64)
EE 388, From TM, <c. 17 Feb 1516> (CWE 3 229-237, SL 64-73)
EE 412, To TM, <c. June 1516> (CWE 3 290-293)
EE 424, From TM, <c. 21 June 1516> (CWE 3 313-316)
EE 461, From TM, 3 Sept <1516> (CWE 4 66-68, SL 73-75)
EE 467, From TM, <c. 20 Sept 1516> (CWE 4 78-79, SL 75-76)
EE 468, From TM, <22 Sept 1516> (CWE 4 79-80, SL 76-77)
EE 474, To TM, 2 Oct 1516 (CWE 4 90-93)
EE 481, From TM, 31 Oct <1516> (CWE 4 114-117, SL 78-81)
EE 499, From TM, <c. 4 Dec 1516> (CWE 4 162-164, SL 83-85)
EE 502, From TM, 15 Dec <1516> (CWE 4 169-172, SL 85-88)
EE 513, From TM, 13 Jan <1517> (CWE 4 182-183)
EE 543, To TM, 1 March 1517 (CWE 4 270-273)
EE 545, To TM, 8 March 1517 (CWE 4 274-75)
EE 584, To TM, <30 May> 1517 (CWE 4 368-372)
EE 597, To TM, , c. 10 July 1517> (CWE 5 6-12)
EE 601, From TM, 16 July <1517> (CWE 5 16-18)
EE 623, From TM, 19 Aug <1517> (CWE 5 67-68)
EE 654, To TM, 8 Sept <1517> (CWE 5 106-107)
EE 669, To TM, 16 Sept <1517> (CWE 5 128-129)
EE 683, From TM, 7 Oct <1517> (CWE 5 147-149)
EE 684, From TM to Peter Gilles, 7 Oct <1517> (CWE 5 149-151)
EE 706, From TM, 5 Nov <1517> (CWE 5 188-190)
EE 726, To TM, 30 Nov <1517> (CWE 5 217)
EE 776, To TM, 22 Feb 1518 (CWE 5 301-303)
EE 785, To TM, 5 March 1518 (CWE 5 325-329)
EE 829, To TM, <c. 23 April 1518> (CWE 5 400-402)
EE 845, From TM, <? May 1518> (CWE 6 37)
EE 848, To TM, 31 May <1518> (CWE 6 39-41)
EE 907, From TM, <1518> (CWE 6 215)
EE 908, To TM, 1 Jan <1519> (CWE 6 215-216)
EE 999, Erasmus to von Hutten, 23 July 1519 (CWE 7 15-25)
EE 1087, From TM, <March-April 1520> (CWE 7 237-254)
EE 1090, From TM, <April 1520> (CWE 7 256-257)
EE 1093, To TM, 26 April 1520 (CWE 7 261-265)
EE 1096, From TM, <May init.> 1520 (CWE 7 271-277)
EE 1097, To TM, 1 May 1520 (CWE 7 277-278)
EE 1106, From TM, 26 May <1520> (CWE 7 288-295)
EE 1107, To TM, <June 1520> (CWE 7 295)
EE 1162, To TM, <c. Nov> 1520 (CWE 8 91-98)
EE 1220, To TM, <c. 5 July? 1521> (CWE 8 263-265)
EE 1233, To William Bude <c. September> 1521
EE 1402, To John More, <c. Dec 1523> (CWE 10 128-131)
EE 1404, To Margaret Roper, 25 Dec 1523/4 (CWE 10 133-135)
EE 1770, From TM, 18 Dec <1526> (CWE 12 414-419, SL 161-165)
EE 2212, To Margaret Roper, 6 Sept 1529
EE 2228, From TM, 28 Oct <1529> (SL 171-172)
EE 2233, From Margaret Roper, 4 Nov <1529>
EE 2659, From TM, 14 June 1532 (SL 172-177)
EE 2750, To Faber, <End of 1532> (Erasmus and His Age, Harper, 1970)
EE 2831, From TM, <June 1533> (SL 178-183)
EE 2865, To Boniface Amerbach, 31 August 1533
EE 3049, To Peter Tomiczki, 31 August 1535 (Erasmus and His Age, Harper, 1970)
EE 3052 To Conrad Goclenius, 2 September 1535
Appendix 27: The Expositio Fidelis
- Letter to John Colet, c. 1504
- Letter to William Gonell, c. 1518
- Letter to His Children, 1521
- Letter to His Children, 1522
- Letter to His Wife, 1529
- Letter to Erasmus, 1533
- Letter to Margaret, 17 April 1534
- Letter to Antonio Bonvisi, 1535
- Letter to Margaret, 2 May 1535
- Letter to Margaret, 3 June 1535
- Letter to Margaret, 5 July 1535
Anthology
Sir Thomas More Reader (Edited by Rudolph E. Habernicht)
I. Satire of Domestic Scenes
Part 1
1. The Wife who would Rule the Roost
2. The Carpenter’s Wife that would be Killed
3. The Rich Widow that would be a Martyr
4. The Carver that would be Crucified
5. The ‘Paciefier’ who would Meddle in a Family Quarrell
Part 2
6. The Riddle of the Wife of Culnam
7. A Bridegroom’s Ring
8. A Wife’s Comment on a Sermon
9. The Witch who prescribed Medicines
10. Evensong and Matins
11. A Husband tries to Teach his Wife the Nature of the Universe
Modernized Version of Selections 1-4, 9
II. Countryfolk Stories and Animal Fables
12. The Tiller who Taught a Maid how to Bear Water in a Sieve
13. The Poor Man who Feared for his Life, and the Farmer who was given Good Advice
14. The Fools and the Rain
15. The Old Sage of Sandwich Haven
16. Sandwich Haven, Revisited
17. A Stumbling Horse
18. Wilkin’s Wager with Simkin
19. Filthy Hogs and Fierce Dogs
20. The Man who would Kill All Bandogs
21. Geese and Glosses
22. The Tale of the Lion, the Boar and the Fox
23. Aesop’s Ape and Crow: An Analogy
24. Jupiter and the Snail
25. The Old Hart that fled from a little Bitch
26. The Fond Tale of Mother Maud: The Confessions of an Ass and a Wolf
Modernized Version of Selections 14, 24-26
III. Historical Portraits and Vignettes
27. King Edward IV
28. King Richard III
29. Jane Shore
30. The Sultan of Syria
31. The Savage Turk
32. Of Those who must Act a Role
Modernized Version of Selections 30-31
IV. Historical Tales and Commentaries
33. Livy’s Tale of the Capuan Senators
34. Heretics in the Time of Henry IV and Henry V
35. Duke Humphrey’s Tale
36. The Duke of Buckingham’s Oration
37. The Murder of Edward V and his Brother, The Duke of York
38. The Duke of Bourbon and the Sack of Rome
V. Clerical Satire and Apocrypha
39. Sickness in Heretics
40. Lutherans: Wise as Wild Geese
41. Of Luther and his Leman
42. Friar Frappe and Kit Cate his Mate
43. Lutheran Preachers in England
44. Talkative Heretics
45. A Protestant Rhetorician
46. Tyndale and Luther: Goodly Golden Eagles
47. William Tyndale, Translator
48. Tyndale, a Schoolmaster
49. Tyndale’s Sleeping Elect
50. A Tale of Robin Hood and William Tyndale
51. David and his Sling
52. Hidden Faces
53. A Masker’s Blushing Face
54. Of Simon Fish and the Marriage of Priests
55. Of Priests who Marry
56. Friar Barnes, Doctor of Divinity
57. Friar Barnes and the Hostess of the ‘Sign of the Bottle,’ at Buttolphe’s Wharf
58. An Over-familiar Priest
59. The Friar and the Wife in a Red Hood
60. A Talkative Nun and a Quarrelsome Housewife
61. Pilgrimages to Holy Shrines
62. A Pilgrimage to Walsingham
63. Special Cures at Saint Walery’s in Picardy and the Veneration of Saints
64. A Loud Preacher in Saxony
65. A Vainglorious Lutheran Bishop
Modernized Version of Selections 39, 45, 54, 60, 64-65
VI. Essays on Manners and Morality
66. What makes a Man Black or White?
67. The Rich Man and the Beggars
68. The Rich and the Poor
69. Covetousness
70. Gluttony
71. Envy
72. Sloth and Lechery
73. Lechery
74. Deception
75. Scrupulous Conscience
76. Pride
77. The Physician who Cures all but Himself
78. Sickness and God (Our Chief Jailor)
79. God, Our Great Physician
80. Suicide
81. Merry Tales serve for Sauce, not Meat
Modernized Version of Selections 67-68, 73, 75-81
VII. Memorabilia: Personal Remembrances
82. Sir Thomas More and the Pacifier
83. Erasmus, my Darling
84. Lincoln’s Inn
85. George Constantine’s Escape from the Stocks
86. The Perjury of Richard Webbe
87. Segar, a Bookseller from Cambridge, and False Detractors
88. Certain Heretics and False Rumors
89. A Child-servant is Whipped
90. The Bedlam Rogue
91. Mad Cliff
92. Davy, the Dutchman
93. The Examination into Richard Hunne’s Death
94. Richard Hunne: Murder or Suicide?
95. Witnesses that do not Lie
96. The Miracle of the Woman in Walbrook Ward
97. Evil Days in London
98. Sir Thomas More and the Oath of Obedience
99. The Court of ‘Pie-Sir-William-Pounder’ at Bartholomew Fair
Modernized Version of Selection 94
VIII. Meditations on Death
100. Our Last Stage-play
101. Two Criminals Condemned to Death
102. The Dance of Death in Saint Paul’s
103. A Dead Man Looks Back
104. An Old Man Speaks with Death
105. The Cruel Hangman, Death
106. Christ in His Passion
107. Three Farewells
Modernized version of selections 1-4, 7 above
III. Scholarship from Moreana and Other Journals
NOTE: All the selections below are from Moreana unless otherwise noted in parentheses. Reprinted with permission.
About More's Life
- Early Lives and Historical Documents
- Influences
- Public Service and Law
- Luther, Tyndale, and Polemical Issues
- Church-State, Christoper St. German
- Last Days, Trial, and Execution
Maguire, John. "Roper's Life of More: The Working Methods of a Tudor Biographer." (Aug. 1969)
Crawford, Charles. "Stapleton and More's Letter to Bugenhagen." (Feb. 1970)
Sylvester, R.S. "William Roper's Life of More." (Dec. 1972)
Baker, Howard H. "Thomas More as a Student at Oxford." (Nov. 1974)
Reynolds, E. E. "A Right Fair House." (Nov. 1975)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "Thomas More's Birth: 1477 or 1478?" (Mar. 1977)
Reynolds, E. E. "One of Thomas More's Judges" (Jun. 1977)
Reynolds, E. E. "Butclose." (Dec. 1978)
Wooden, Warren W. "Structural Patterning in William Roper's Life of More." (Mar. 1980)
Wooden, Warren W. "Thomas More in Hostile Hands." (Dec. 1982)
Massingham, K.R. "Thomas More, 'Laicus', gent." (Nov. 1985)
Billingsley, Dale B. "The Editorial Design of the 1557 English Works." (Feb. 1986)
Prescott, Anne Lake. "Crime and Carnival at Chelsea: Widow Edith and More's Household." (1989)
Marc'hadour, G. "Thomas More and Thomas Linacre." (Feb. 1967)
Gabrieli, Vittorio. "Giovanni Pico and Thomas More." (Nov. 1967)
Sylvester, R.S. "A Part of His Own: More's Literary Personality." (Nov. 1967)
Stacpoole, A.J. "Thomas More and the Imitatio Christi." (Feb. 1969)
Coogan, Robert. "Petrarch and Thomas More." (Feb. 1969)
Sowards, J.K. "On Education: More's Debt to Erasmus." (1989)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "Basil the Great and Thomas More." (Nov. 1992)
Hosington, Brenda. "More's Views on Language and Translation." (Mar. 2003)
Norland, Howard B. "More's and Elyot's Perspectives." (Mar. 2003)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas More." (Sep. 2004)
Birchenough/Marc'hadour. On the Timeline of the Chancellorship. (Nov. 1966)
Reynolds, E. E. "Which Thomas More? A Retractation." (Feb. 1967)
Hogrefe, Pearl. "Sir Thomas More and Doctors Commons." (May 1967)
Elton, G. R. "More and the Opposition to Henry VIII." (Nov. 1967)
Headley, John M. "The Problem of Counsel Revisited." (Mar. 2003)
Keane, Robert M. "Thomas More as a Young Lawyer." (Dec. 2004)
Curtright, Travis. “Humanist Lawyer, Public Career: Thomas More and Conscience.” (June 2009)
* See "Answer to a Poisoned Book," "Apology," "The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer," "Dialogue Concerning Heresies" and "Response to Luther"
Headley, John. "More Against Luther: on Laws and the Magistrate ." (Nov. 1967)
Stacpoole, A. J. "Thomas More and the Imitatio Christi." (Feb. 1969)
Pineas, Rainer. "George Joye's Controversy with Thomas More." (Jun. 1973)
Milward, Peter. "A Judgement Judged--the More-Tyndale Controversy." (Mar. 1980)
Pineas, Rainer. "A Response to Alistair Fox's Treatment of More." (Jun. 1984)
Keen, Ralph. "Thomas More and Geometry." (Jul. 1985)
Rockett, William. "Words Written and Words Inspired: Sola Scriptura." (Mar. 1999)
* See "Apology" and "The Debellation of Salem and Bizance"
Hay, Denis. "A Note on More and the General Council." (Nov. 1967)
Sowards, J.K. "Thomas More, Erasmus, and Julius II." (Nov. 1969)
Headley, John. "Thomas More and the Papacy." (Mar. 1974)
Headley, John. "The Nos Papistae of Thomas More." (Mar. 1980)
Marius, Richard. "More the Conciliarist." (Mar. 1980)
Oakeley, Francis. "Headley, Marius, and More's 'Conciliarism.'" (Mar. 1980)
Guy, John. A. "Thomas More and Christopher St. German." (Dec. 1984)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "Entr'acte St. German." (Dec. 2000)
Rockett, William. "Temporal and Spiritual: the Controversy." (Dec. 2000)
Reynolds, E. E. "An Unnoticed Document [of More's Trial]." (Sept. 1963)
Derrett, J. D. M. "The 'New' Document on More's Trial." (Jun. 1964)
Byron, Brian. "The Fourth Count of the Indictment of More." (May. 1966)
Derrett, J. D. M. "More's Attainder and Alice's Predicament." (May. 1965)
Cavanaugh, John R. "The St. Stephen Motif in More's Thought." (Nov. 1965)
Derrett, D. M. "Sir Thomas More and the Nun of Kent." (Nov. 1967)
Flegel, Kenneth M. "Was a Sick Man Beheaded?" (Feb. 1976)
Sylvester, Richard S. "More's Discussion of Perjury." (Dec. 1977)
Conesa, Salvador. "Did More Have a Cervical Disc Lesion?" (Dec. 1984)
Derrett, J. Duncan M. "More's Silence and His Trial" (Nov. 1985)
Foley, Michael P. “A Saint on Trial: Analyzing the Condemnation of Sir Thomas More.” (June 2009)
Panza, Barbara J. “His Word Was His Bond: The Role of the Oath in Thomas More’s Trial.” (June 2009)
About More's Works
- Answer to a Poisoned Book
- Apology
- The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
- The Debellation of Salem and Bizance
- A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
- A Dialogue Concerning Heresies
- English Poems
- Epigrams
- The History of King Richard III
- Letters
- Life of Picus
- Prayer-Book
- Response to Luther
- The Sadness of Christ
- Treatise on the Passion
- Utopia
Pineas, Rainer. "George Joye's Controversy with More." (Jun. 1973)
Gordon, Walter M. "The Answer to a Poisoned Book." (Nov. 1987)
Pineas, Rainer. "Technique in Answere to...the Poysened Booke." (1989)
Guy, John. A. "Thomas More and Christopher St. German." (Dec. 1984)
Rockett, William. "More and St. German." (Mar. 1997)
Stacpoole, A. J. "Thomas More and the Imitatio Christi." (Feb. 1969)
Donner, H.W. "The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer." (Sep. 1973)
Martz, Louis L. "More as Author: The Virtues of Digression." (Jun. 1979)
Hardin, Richard F. "Caricature in More's Confutation." (Feb. 1987)
Hardin, Richard F. "Not Affirming Things Intended." (Mar. 2002)
Trapp, J.B. "The Debellation of Salem and Bizance." (Dec. 1988)
Martz, Louis. "The Design of More's Dialogue of Comfort." (Nov. 1967)
Miles, Leland. "Patristic Comforters in More's Dialogue of Comfort." (Nov. 1965)
Kuhn, Joaquin. "Function of Psalm 90 in More's Dialogue." (May. 1969)
Basset, Bernard. "A Dialogue of Comfort for Us All." (Mar. 1979)
Sylvester, Richard S. "Three Dialogues." (March 1980)
Khanna, Lee Cullen. "Truth and Fiction in A Dialogue of Comfort." (Jun. 1980)
Russell, J. Stephen. "More's Dialogue and the Dynamics of Comfort." (Jun. 1980)
Billingsley, Dale B. "'Imagination' in A Dialogue of Comfort." (Jun. 1982)
Billingsley, Dale B. "'Resources of Kind' in A Dialogue of Comfort." (Jun. 1982)
Yee, Nancy C. "Thomas More: In Defense of Tribulation." (Jun. 1982)
Clark, James Andrew. "More and Tyndale as Prose Stylists." (Jun. 1984)
Norland, Howard B. "Comfort Through Dialogue." (Feb. 1987)
O'Donnell, Anne. "Cicero, Gregory the Great, and Thomas More." (1989)
Wegemer, Gerard. "A Platonic Treatment of Statesmanship." (May. 1990)
Yee, Nancy. "More's Moriae Enconium: The Perfect Fool." (May. 1990)
* See Thomas More Studies 3 (2008)
Mason, D. E. and Schoeck, R. J. "On More's Dialogue Concerning Heresies." (May. 1966)
Sylvester, Richard S. "Three Dialogues." (March 1980)
Gordon, Walter M. "A Dialogue Concerning Heresies." (Dec. 1982)
Pineas, Rainer. "William Tyndale and More's 1529 Dialogue." (Dec. 1982)
Gilman, Donald. "Dramatic Debate: Vividness and Verve in More's Dialogue." (Mar. 2003)
Bradner, L. Translation of "How to Choose a Wife." (Jun. 1970)
Bowman, Thea. "Analysis of More's Rueful Lamentation." (Jun. 1970)
Willow, Mary-Edith. "Analysis of the English Poems of More." (Nov. 1974)
Duffy, Robert A. "Thomas More's 'Nine Pageants.'" (Jun. 1976)
Tromly, Frederic. "More's Transformation of Didactic Lament." (Mar. 1977)
McCutcheon, Elizabeth. "Number Symbolism." (Jun. 1981)
Edwards, A.S.G. "Transcript of More's Prayer of Picus." (May. 1990)
Cousins, A.D. "More and the Refiguring of Stoicism." (Dec. 1993)
Cousins, A. D. "Augustine, Boethus and the Fortune Verses." (Mar. 2002)
Grace, Damian. "Political Theory in a Poetic Idiom." (Parergon 1985)
Holahan, Susan. "More's Epigrams on Henry Abyngdon." (Feb. 1968)
Clay Doyle, Charles. "On the Neglected Sources of Epigrams." (May. 1975)
Bradner, Leicester. "Thomas More's Epigrams on Death." (Jun. 1976)
Kinney, Daniel. "More's Epigramon Brixius' Plagiarism." (Jun. 1981)
Binns, J. Book Review of The Latin poems of St. Thomas More. (Jul. 1985)
Keen, R. Book Review of Baumann's Book on More's Epigrams. (Jul. 1985)
Nichols, Fred J. "More and Martial." (Jul. 1985)
Perry, Kathleen. "Blind Saturn: Astrological Epigrams." (Jul. 1985)
Grace, Damian. "Subjects or Citizens?" (Mar. 1988)
Doyle, Charles Clay. "Epigrams in the 16th and 17th Centuries." (Mar. 1994)
Doyle, Charles. "On Some Antecedents of More's Epigrams." (Dec. 1999)
* See Thomas More Studies 2 (2007)
Zeeveld, Gordon W. Book Review of Yale's 1963 edition.(Sep. 1963)
Heath, T.G. "Another Look at More's Richard." (Nov. 1968)
Reiter, Robert E. "On the Genre of More's Richard III." (Jun. 1970)
Fox, Alistair. "Richard III's Pauline Oath." (Mar. 1978)
Grace, Damian. "More's Richard III: A "Satirical Drama?" (Mar. 1978)
Anderegg, M.A. "Richard and His Early Historians." (Mar. 1978)
Harner, James L. "Shore's Wife in More's Richard III." (Jun. 1982)
Baumann, Uwe. "More and the Classical Tyrant." (Jul. 1985)
Kinney, Daniel. "King's Tragicomedies in More's Richard III." (Jul. 1985)
Condren, Conal. "Paradoxical Defence of Richard III." (Jun. 1987)
Peters, John G. "Sanctuary in More's Richard III." (Dec. 1997)
Hosington, Brenda M. "Proverbs in Richard III." (Jun. 1998)
Ronnick, Michele Valerie. "Tacitus' Depiction of Nero." (Dec. 1999)
McCutcheon, Elizabeth. "Litotes in More's Richard III." (Jun. 2001)
Cousins, A.D. "Women and Resistance to Tyranny ." (Dec. 2004)
Bruster, Douglas. “Thomas More’s Richard III and Shakespeare.” (Sept. 2005)
McCutcheon, Elizabeth. "More's Letter to Antonio Bonvisi." (Nov. 1981)
Schulte-Herbruggen, Hubertus. "More's Correspondence." (Nov. 1983)
Herbruggen, H. "Seven New Letters From Thomas More." (Sep. 1990)
Miller, C. "Thomas More's Letters to Frans Van Cranevelt." (Mar. 1994)
Foley, Stephen. "Scenes of Speaking and Technologies of Writing in More's Tower Letters." (Dec. 1998)
Rodgers, Katherine G. “More as Witness: the Tower Letters.” (June 2009)
Boyle, John F. “Counsel, Comfort, and Conscience in More’s Letters to Fellow-Prisoner Wilson.” (June 2009)
Kearney, Dutton. “‘Little in Common’? Law and Literature in Thomas More’s Dialogue on Conscience.” (June 2009)
Gabrielli, Vittorio. "Giovanni Pico and Thomas More." (Nov. 1967)
Beier, Benjamin V. “The Subordination of Humanism: Young More’s ‘Profitable’ Work, The Life of John Picus.” (June 2010)
Marc'hadour, G. "More's Prayer Book Revisited ." (Feb. 1970)
Headley, John. "More Against Luther: on Laws and the Magistrate ." (Nov. 1967)
Bush, Douglas. "De Tristitia Christi." (Mar. 1977)
Hosington, Brenda. "'Quid Dormitis?': More's Use of Sleep As a Motif." (1989)
Miller, Clarence. "The Holograph of More's Expositio Passionis." (Nov. 1967)
Baker House, Seymour. “Endgame: The Genesis of More’s The Sadness of Christ.” (Oct. 2008)
Byron, Brian. "From Essence to Presence: Eucharistic Expression." (1989)
* See Thomas More Studies 1 (2006)
Surtz, Edward. "Illustrations in the Yale Utopia." (May 1966)
O'Grady, W. "A Note on Busleyden's Letter to Thomas More." (Sept. 1966)
Derrett, J. D. M. "The Utopian Alphabet." (Nov. 1966)
Allen, Ward. "Some Remarks on Gold." (Mar. 1968)
Schoeck, Richard. "On Reading More's Utopia as Dialogue." (May. 1969)
Allen, Ward. "Hythloday and the Root of All Evil."(Nov. 1971)
Coogan, Robert. "NVNC VIVO VT VOLO."(Nov. 1971)
Doyle, Charles Clay. "Utopia and the Proper Place of Gold." (Nov. 1971)
Halkin, Leon-E. "Mithra Dans l'Utopie de More." (Nov. 1971)
Johnson, Robbin S. "The Argument for Reform in Utopia." (Nov. 1971)
Jones, Judith. "Plato's Philebus and Utopian Hedonism." (Nov. 1971)
Khanna, Lee Cullen. "Open-mindedness in the Commonwealth." (Nov. 1971)
Lacombe, M.-M. "La Sagesse D'Epicure Dans L'Utopie De More." (Nov. 1971)
McCuthcheon, Elizabeth. "The Litotes in Utopia." (Nov. 1971)
Peters, Robert. "The Utopia and More's Orthodoxy." (Nov. 1971)
Prevost, Andre. "L'Utopie Comme Genre Litteraire." (Nov. 1971)
Quattrocki, Ed. "Injustice, the Theme of Utopia Book I." (Nov. 1971)
Sawada, Paul Akio. "Toward the Definition of Utopia." (Nov. 1971)
Seeber, Hans Ulrich. "Hythloday and a Debt to Macrobius." (Nov. 1971)
Dust, Philip. "Gentili's Commentaries on Utopian War." (Feb. 1973)
Stevens, Irma Ned. "Aesthetic Distance in the Utopia." (Nov. 1974)
Allen, Ward S. "The Tone of More's Farewell to Utopia." (Sep. 1976)
Evans, John X. "The Kingdom Within More's Utopia." (Jun. 1977)
Sylvester, Richard S. "Three Dialogues." (March 1980)
Wilson, Katharina. "More and Theophrastus--An Idea Put to Work." (Oct. 1980)
Evans, John X. "Utopia on Prospero's Island." (Mar. 1981)
Murphy, Clare M. "Ottoman Analogs to More's Utopia." (Mar. 1981)
Rudat, Wolfgang E.H. "More's Raphael Hythloday." (Mar. 1981)
Schaeffer, John D. "Socratic Method in More's Utopia." (Mar. 1981)
Simon, Elliott. "More's Utopia: Creating an Image of the Soul." (Mar. 1981)
Williams, Franklin B. "Utopia's Chickens Come Home to Roost." (Mar. 1981)
Hammond, Eugene R. "Hythloday's Questions." (Jun. 1981)
Blaim, Artur. "More's Utopia: Persuasion or Polyphony?" (Feb. 1982)
Baumann, Uwe. "Herodotus, Aulus Gellius, and More's Utopia." (Feb. 1983)
Giuseppe, Di Scipio. "De re Militari in the Prince and Utopia." (Feb. 1983)
Pineas, Rainer. "More's Utopia and the 'Tragedy' of Polonius." (Jun. 1983)
Gueguen, John A. "Why Is There No University in Utopia?" (Dec. 1983)
Surtz, Edward L. "'Like a Fountain Stirred'." (Dec. 1983)
White, Thomas I. "On Plato and Utopia." (Dec. 1984)
Branham, R Bracht. "Utopian Laughter: Lucian and Thomas More." (Jul. 1985)
McCutcheon, Elizabeth. "Utopia and Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum." (Jul. 1985)
Grace, Damian. "Utopia: A Dialectical Interpretation." (1989)
Olin, John C. "Erasmus' Adagia and More's Utopia." (1989)
Corrigan, K. "The Function of the Ideal in The Republic and Utopia." (Dec. 1990)
Wegemer, Gerard. "Ciceronian Humanism in More's Utopia." (Dec. 1990)
O' Brien, Brian. "J.H. Hexter and the Text of Utopia: A Reappraisal." (Jun. 1992)
Wilson, Nigel G. "The Name Hythlodaeus." (Jun. 1992)
Baker, David. "First Among Equals: The Utopian Princeps." (Dec. 1993)
Logan, George M. "Interpreting Utopia: 10 Recent Studies." (Jun. 1994)
Logan, George M. "Utopia and Deliberative Rhetoric." (Jun. 1994)
Martinez Lopez, Miguel. "The Life of the Essenes and Utopians." (Jun. 1994)
Billingsley, Dale B. "Halfhearted Busleyden." (Jun. 1995)
Evans, Scott. "'Divine Consideration:' Utopia in Defense of Poetry." (Mar. 1996)
Gordon, Walter M. "Maiestas in Thomas More's Political Thought." (Mar. 1997)
Farnell, James E. "The Governmental Structure of Utopia." (Jun. 1997)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "Utopia: Comparing 7 Recent Translations." (Jun. 2001)
Farnell, James E. "Nusquama and Natural Law." (Dec. 2002)
Baker, David Weil. "Ruin and Utopia." (Sep. 2003)
About More's Family and Friends
- Family
- Sir John More (More's Father)
- Agnes Graunger (More's Mother)
- Jane/Joan Colt (More's First Wife)
- Lady Alice (More's Second Wife)
- Margaret Roper (More's Daughter)
- John Rastell (More's Brother-in-Law)
- John Donne (distant relative)
- Friends
- The Carthusians
- John Clement
- Erasmus
- John Fisher
- Pieter Gillis
- Henry Patenson
- Antonio Buonvisi
- Francis Cramevelt
- Drama
- General
- A Man for All Seasons
- The Book of Sir Thomas More (c. 1592)
- Shakespeare
- Paintings
- Poems
- Statues
Reynolds, E. E. "The Coats-of-Arms of Sir John More." (Mar. 1977)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "The Death-Year of More's Mother." (Dec. 1979)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "'More's First Wife...Jane? or Joan?" (Mar. 1992)
Derrett, J. D. M. "More's Attainder and Alice's Predicament." (May 1965)
Norrington, Ruth. "In the Shadow of a Saint: Lady Alice More" (Jun. 1984)
O'Neill, Mary. "Lady Alice--Out From the Shadows." (Dec. 1984)
Warnicke, Retha. "The Harpy in More's Household: Was it Lady Alice?" (Nov. 1985)
Margaret's translation of Erasmus' paraphrase of the Pater Noster. (Aug. 1965)
Albin, Hugh. "Opening the Vault; Enigma of Roper and Canterbury." (Dec. 1979)
Roper, Harpsfield, Stapleton. "Meg Roper's Farewell to More." (Jun. 1983)
Geritz, Albert. "Brothers-in-Law More and John Rastell." (Dec. 1999)
McLean, Andrew M. “John Donne and Thomas More: An Elizabethan Catholic Legacy.” (Sept. 2005)
Reynolds, E. E. "The Friends of St. Thomas More." (Sept. 1963)
Whatmore, L. E. The Carthusians under King Henry the Eighth (Selections). (Analecta Catursiana 1983)
Merriam, Thomas. "John Clement." (Mar. 1988)
Schoeck, Richard J. "Telling More from Erasmus." (Dec. 1986)
Surtz, Edward. "Thomas More's Friendship with John Fisher." (Nov. 1967)
Murphy, Claire. "John Fisher and The Field of Cloth of Gold." (Feb. 1986)
Doyle, Charles Clay. "'The Mysterious Malady of Pieter Gillis." (Jun. 1992)
Hall, Noeline. "Henry Patenson--Sir Thomas More's Fool." (May. 1990)
Baker-Smith, Dominic. “Antonio Buonvisi and Florens Wilson: a European friendship.” (July 2006)
Keane, Robert. “Thomas More and the Louvain Humanists.” (June 2008)
About Artwork Representing More
Peters, Christopher. "'The Image of Thomas More in 20th Century Plays." (Mar. 1992)
Geritz, Albert J. "'Sir Thomas More A Tragedy by James Hurdis." (Mar. 1993)
Reynolds, E. E. "The Significance of A Man for All Seasons." (Aug. 1969)
Tucker, Melvin J. "The More-Norfolk Connection." (Feb. 1972)
M, G. "Fred Zinnemann and A Man for All Seasons." (Nov. 1983)
Miller, Clarence. "Robert Bolt's Play and the Elizabethan Play." (Dec. 1990)
Spikes, Judith Doolin. "Book of More: Structure and Meaning." (Nov. 1974)
Metz, Harold. "The Play of Sir Thomas More." (Jun. 1984)
Gabrieli, Vittorio. "Sir Thomas More: Sources, Characters, Ideas." (Jun. 1986)
Merriam, Thomas. "Was Munday the Author of Sir Thomas More?" (Jun. 1987)
Villquin, Jean-Pierre. "Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More: Essays on the Play." (Dec. 1991)
Merriam, Thomas. "'Lord Say, Sir Thomas More, and Good Friday." (Mar. 1992)
Kelly, Erin E. "John Foxe, Poets, and Sir Thomas More." (Sept. 2005)
Villquin, Jean-Pierre. “Sir Thomas More et Shakespeare.” (Sept. 2005)
Kinney, Arthur F. “Memorializing History in The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore.” (Oct. 2008)
Fox, Alistair. "Richard III's Pauline Oath." (Mar. 1978)
Merriam, Thomas. "Did Shakespeare Model Camillo on More?" (Dec. 1982)
Pineas, Rainer. "More's Utopia and the 'Tragedy'of Polonius. " (Jun. 1983)
Evans, John. "Erasmian Folly and Shakespeare's King Lear." (Sep. 1990)
Milward, Peter. "The Morean Counsellor in Shakespeare's Last Plays." (Sep. 1990)
Miller, Clarence. "A Man for All Seasons: Bolt's and the Elizabethan Play." (Dec. 1990)
Gabrieli, Vittorio. "Sources of Four Plays Acribed to Shakespeare." (Dec. 1991)
Rousseau, Marie-Claude. "Drama Articles and Notes in Moreana." (Dec. 1991)
Rousseau, Marie-Claude. "Theatrum Mundi: More and Drama" (Dec. 1991)
Zapatka, Francis E. "'My Strong House': The Tower and its Use." (Dec. 1991)
Murphy, Clare M. “Thomas More in the Subtext of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII.” (Sept. 2005)
Kincaid, Arthur. “Show the Heavens More Just: Ordering Society in Utopia, King Lear, and The Tempest.” (Oct. 2008)
* See Christoper Peters, "The Image of Thomas More in 20th Century Plays" under "General" above
Merriam, Thomas. "Unveiling of the More Family Portrait." (Nov. 1983)
House, Seymour. "The More Family Portraits after Holbein." (Mar. 2000)
Martyn, John R. C. "John Owen on Thomas More." (June 1976)
Memorial to More in the Tower of London. (Jun. 1970)
Bibliographic Essays
Marc'hadour, Germaine, More's English Works: Towards a Census and an Anatomy. (Feb 1967)
General Essays and Talks on More
Sylvester, Richard S. "Thomas More: New Buildings and Old." (Nov. 1964)
Sylvester, Richard S. Newsletter on Yale's Complete Works Project. (Nov. 1965)
Schoeck, R. J. "Lord Acton's Views of Thomas More." (Nov. 1966)
Sullivan, Frank. "The Letter of the Law of a Christian Socrates." (Nov. 1967)
Sylvester, R. S. "More's Literary Personality in His Early Works." (Nov. 1967)
McDonald, Miles. "Two Prayers to St. Thomas More." (Feb. 1970)
Gordon, Walter M. "In Defense of More's Merry Tales." (Jun. 1973)
Wright, John. "Patron of Lawyers and Model for Our Times." (Sep. 1976)
Rawlinson, Sir Peter. "Thomas More as a Public Figure." (Jun. 1977)
Sylvester, R.S. "Editing Thomas More: The Past and the Future." (Jun. 1978)
Sylvester, Richard S. "Keynote Address (22 June 1978)." (Jun. 1979)
Bibliography (for Richard S. Sylvester) (Jun. 1979)
Kristeller, Paul. "Thomas More as a Renaissance Humanist." (Jun. 1980)
Klawiter, Randolph. "Thomas More, Erasmus, and Von Hutten." (Oct. 1980)
Schuster, Louis A. "The Tower of London: More's Gethsemane." (Jun. 1982)
Rimmel, Lesley A. "Was Thomas Cromwell a Morean?" (Dec. 1982)
Stork, Richard. "John Paul II on Fisher, More and Christian Unity." (Dec. 1982)
Berglar, Peter. "Justice and Mercy in More's Life and Work." (Jun. 1983)
Scarisbrick, J. J. "Thomas More: «A Model For Us All»." (Nov. 1985)
Sawada, Paul Akio. "Was More a Utopian or a Realpolitiker?" (Dec. 1986)
Smith, Constance. "Charles Dickens on More." (Dec. 1986)
Suzuki, Yoshinori. "Thomas More's View of Politics as a Profession." (Feb. 1987)
Suzuki, Yoshinori. "Thomas More on Politics as a Profession." (Mar. 1988)
Martz, Louis L. "Thomas More: The Search for the Inner Man." (1989)
Marc'hadour, Germain. "Saint Thomas More and Conscience." (Mar. 1993)
Billingsley, Dale. "'The Dangers of Reading in More's Works." (Dec. 1993)
Headley, John. "Guy's More: on the Dimensions of Political Biography." (Dec. 2000)
Gordon, Walter. "Hope's Movement Toward Love in More and Aquinas." (Mar. 2003)
Prescott, Anne Lake. "Postmodern More." (Mar. 2003)
Quarta, Cosimo. "More and Socrates." (Dec. 2003)
Santer, Mark. "Bishop of Birmingham. 23rd July 1989." (Jun. 2004)
Scarisbrick, John. "University of Warwick. 21st July 1985." (Jun. 2004)
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