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…owners and no right to use, publish, copy or disseminate such works is granted or implied. Every effort has been made to honor the prerogatives of copyright holders; needed corrections…

Art

…the House of Commons Painting by Vivian Forbes, 1927, St. Stephen’s Hall, English Parliament, London. ©The Palace of Westminster. View more commentary by clicking here. Thomas More at the Opening…

Chronology

…to Henry, Erasmus dedicates his translation of Plutarch’s essay on flattery (36) 1514 Elected to Doctors’ Common; serves on sewers commission (37) 1515 Embassy to Bruges and Antwerp for commercial…

St. Dunstan’s Window

St. Dunstan’s Window St. Dunstan’s Window The window commemorates the life of Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England (1529-32). More was beheaded in the time of Henry VIII and his…

Our Team

…Toronto UP. He served on the Research Committee of Moreana from 1974 to 2019 and as a senior advisor for the Center for Thomas More Studies from its founding in 2000 to…

Who Are We?

…Amici Thomae Mori leads two complementary actions: On the one hand, as a scholarly society, and mainly addressing a readership of university scholars, it aims at developing research both on…

Books to Buy

…order, with features including: modern spelling and punctuation; searchable e-book option; concise introductions and outlines for each text; ample glosses and explanatory notes; 100 illustrations; newly commissioned translations; a reconstructed…

Thomas More Family Portrait

…of the water-based painting that he had completed c. 1527. The water-based (“distempered”) original perished in a fire in 1752. The painting includes strong elements of Renaissance humanism combined with…

Writings

List of Thomas More’s Writings Download PDF c. 1496-1504 English Poems 1499-1535 Correspondence (Latin and English) c. 1500 Latin verses to Holt’s Lac Puerorum c. 1504 Letter to John Colet…

About Thomas More

…liberties of his country and for refusing to compromise his conscience. Coming from humble roots, Thomas More achieved spectacular professional success, and he attributed that success to the depth and