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The Life of Thomas More (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Life of Thomas MoreIn a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures in history, Ackroyd provides an unmatched portrait of the everyday, the religious, and intellectual life of the early 16th century. in color.
Full description- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Published: 01 January 1998
- Format: Paperback 480 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Biography: Religious & Spiritual | British & Irish History | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
- ISBN 13: 9780385496933 ISBN 10: 0385496931
- Sales rank: 310,426
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Full description for The Life of Thomas More
Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history - and arguably the most brilliant lawyer the English-speaking world has ever known. Thomas More was a renowned statesman, the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia), and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint, who was beheaded when he refused to follow his sovereign, King Henry VIII, in severing England's ties from the Catholic Church.Ackroyd shows dramatically how the clouds of Reformation that swarmed over the European continent unleashed the storm of the early modern period that swept away More's world and took his life. He clarifies the whirl of dynastic, religious, and mercantile politics that brought the autocratic Henry VIII and the devout More into their fateful conflict. And he narrates the unrelenting drama of More's final days - his detention, trial, and execution - with a novelist's mastery of suspense.
