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The Last Letters of Thomas More
Saint Thomas More
出版
W.B. Eerdmans
, 2000
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Political
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
History / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
Literary Collections / Letters
Religion / Christianity / History
Religion / History
ISBN
0802838863
9780802838865
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TfoLAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In the spring of 1534, Thomas More was taken to the Tower of London, and after fourteen months in prison, the author of Utopia, friend of Erasmus and the humanities, and former Lord Chancellor of England was beheaded on Tower Hill. Yet More wrote some of his best works as a prisoner, including a set of historically and religiously important letters. The Last Letters of Thomas More collect's More's prison correspondence, introduced and fully annotated for contemporary readers by Alvaro de Silva. Based on the critical edition of More's correspondence, this volume begins with letters penned by More to Cromwell and Henry VIII in February 1534 and ends with More's last words to his daughter, Margaret Roper, on the eve of his execution. More writes on a host of topics--prayer and penance, the right use of riches and power, the joys of heaven, psychological depression and suicidal temptations, the moral compromises of those who imprisoned him, and much more. This volume not only records the clarity of More's conscience and his readiness to die for the integrity of his religious faith, but it also throws light on the literary works that More wrote during the same period and on the religious and political conditions of Tudor England. --From publisher's description.