The Controversial Sir Thomas More
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10086290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brendan Bradshaw (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 535-569 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046900043992 |
| OpenAlex | W2144557444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 10 |
Perhaps the most notable achievement of the so-called renaissance in Morean studies in recent years has been to provide the historiography with a new focus, namely the phase of More's career that begins in the aftermath of Utopia (1516) and concludes with his imprisonment in 1534. Hitherto, interest in that period was confined largely to the domestic scene celebrated in Holbein's famous portrait and drawings, the household at Chelsea as a centre of humanist culture, Christian piety and cosy family virtue. Yet this was the period of More's public career in which he served as a councillor to Henry vm and in a number of major administrative posts before his elevation to succeed Cardinal Wolsey as lord chancellor in 1529. It was also the period in which he assumed a leading role in the campaign against the Reformation in England, partly as a prosecutor of heresy on behalf of the Crown, but more spectacularly as a polemicist, specifically commissioned by the Church to defend orthodox doctrine against the challenge of the reformers – a task on which he expended some million words in the period between his tract against Luther in 1523 and the changed circumstances which induced a more devotional literary mode in the much acclaimed Tower Works
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Doctrine · Heresy · Historiography · Humanism · Literature · Period (music · Piety · Political science · Portrait · Predestination · Theology · Virtue · Classics · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Absolutism and royalism
Sovereignty and the mixed constitution
Sovereignty and the mixed constitution
Pufendorf
Catholic resistance theory, Ultramontanism, and the royalist response, 1580—1620
The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450–1700
Christian obedience and authority, 1520–1550
Leveller democracy and the Puritan Revolution
Calvinism and resistance theory, 1550–1580
Italian political thought, 1450–1530
Transalpine humanism
Dis-Manteling More
Intention, Choice and Identity in Thomas More’s The History of King Richard the Third/Historia Richardi Tertii
Thomas More’s Humor in his Religious Polemics
The Debate Between Thomas More and William Tyndale, 1528–33
Humanist Spirituality and Ecclesial Reaction
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2017 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |