The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More

Book Overview

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and execution. These chapters are followed by in-depth studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052188862X
• ISBN13: 9780521888622
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"