Thomas More

Utopia

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A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term utopia was created from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. His book invented a new genre of fiction. It was the first book to use a made up world, a Utopia in its framing.

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ISBN: 979-10-299-0780-7
EAN: 9791029907807
Produktnummer: 32962496
Verlag: FV éditions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 92 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D0.9 cm 299 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 299

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Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 - 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More,[7][8] was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a Chancellor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532.[9] He wrote Utopia, published in 1516,[10] about the political system of an imaginary island state.More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and William Tyndale. More also opposed King Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and executed. On his execution, he was reported to have said: I die the King's good servant, and God's first.Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the patron saint of Statesmen and Politicians.[11][12] The Soviet Union in the early twentieth century honoured him for the purportedly communist attitude toward property rights in UtopiaBorn on Milk Street in London, on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More,[16] a successful lawyer and later a judge[17], and his wife Agnes (née Graunger). He was the second of six children. More was educated at St Anthony's School, then considered one of London's best schools.[18][19] From 1490 to 1492, More served John Morton, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England, as a household page.[20]:xvi Morton enthusiastically supported the New Learning (scholarship which was later known as humanism or London humanism), and thought highly of the young More. Believing that More had great potential, Morton nominated him for a place at the University of Oxford (either in St. Mary Hall or Canterbury College, both now gone).[21]:38More began his studies at Oxford in 1492, and received a classical education. Studying under Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn, he became proficient in both Latin and Greek. More left Oxford after only two years-at his father's insistence-to begin legal training in London at New Inn, one of the Inns of Chancery.[20]:xvii[22] In 1496, More became a student at Lincoln's Inn, one of the Inns of Court, where he remained until 1502, when he was called to the Bar