Cecilia Hatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5989179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Hatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatt |
| SIGNATURE | HATT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Becoming the Pearl-Poet
Keeping the Conversation going
I consider the effects of Henry VIII’s attempts to exert control over the intellectual activities of his articulate and argumentative subjects, whose free speculation he attempted radically to limit, while legitimising his own decisions by insisting that they were the result of discussion and the advice of others. I shall discuss the ways in which both Thomas More and John Fisher contrived to “converse” within a perilously maintained community of…
The Two-Edged Sword as Image of Civil Power for Fisher and More
When Sir Thomas More was questioned about Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy, he answered that the Statute was like a two-edged sword: if a man agreed to it he would lose his soul, but if he refused it, he would lose his earthly life. John Fisher, the bishop of Rochester, used the same image at his examination. This article examines the image of the two-edged sword in respect of both its use by More and of its Scriptural analogue and suggests reasons …
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The Two-Edged Sword as Image of Civil Power for Fisher and More
When Sir Thomas More was questioned about Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy, he answered that the Statute was like a two-edged sword: if a man agreed to it he would lose his soul, but if he refused it, he would lose his earthly life. John Fisher, the bishop of Rochester, used the same image at his examination. This article examines the image of the two-edged sword in respect of both its use by More and of its Scriptural analogue and suggests reasons …
Keeping the Conversation going
I consider the effects of Henry VIII’s attempts to exert control over the intellectual activities of his articulate and argumentative subjects, whose free speculation he attempted radically to limit, while legitimising his own decisions by insisting that they were the result of discussion and the advice of others. I shall discuss the ways in which both Thomas More and John Fisher contrived to “converse” within a perilously maintained community of…
Becoming the Pearl-Poet
Philosophy (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 works) · Argumentative (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Control (management) (1 works) · Conversation (1 works) · Converse (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works)