The Life of Thomas More

by Ackroyd, Peter

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  Articles

  The most important source of information remains Moreana (Angers, 1963), the periodical devoted to More studies. Other articles of particular relevance are listed below.

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  Derrett, J., ‘Thomas More and the Legislation of the Corporation of London’, Guildhall Miscellany (1963)

  Gee, J. A., ‘The Second Edition of Utopia. Paris 1517’, The Yale University Library Gazette, 7, 4 (Yale, April 1933)

  Gordon, W. M., ‘The Monastic Achievement and More’s Utopia’, Medieval et Humanistic, New Series, no. 9 (Cambridge, 1979)

  Harper-Bill, C., ‘Archbishop John Morton and the Province of Canterbury. 1486–1500’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 29, 1 (January 1978)

  Hastings, M., ‘The Ancestry of Sir Thomas More’, Guildhall Miscellany (1961)

  Hexter, J. H., ‘The Loom of Language and the Fabric of Imperatives: The case of Il Principe and Utopia’, The American Historical Review, 69, 4 (New York, July 1964)

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  Kelly, D. R. ‘The Conscience of “The King’s Good Servant” ’, Thought, 52 (New York, 1977)

  ‘Legal Humanism and the Sense of History’, Studies in the Renaissance, vol. 13 (New York, 1966)

  Kinney, D., ‘More’s Letter to Dorp: Remapping the Trivium’, Renaissance Quarterly, 24, 2 (New York, 1981)

  Lehmberg, S. E., ‘Sir Thomas More’s Life of Pico Della Mirandola’, Studies in the Renaissance (New York, 1956)

  Marsh, T. N., ‘Humour and Invective in Early Tudor Polemic’, Rice Institute Pamphlets, 44 (Houston, 1957)

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  Miles, L., ‘The Literary Artistry of Thomas More: The Dialogue of Comfort’, Studies in English Literature, 6, 1 (Nieuwkoop, 1966)

  ‘With a Coal? The Composition of Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort’, Philological Quarterly, 45, 2 (Iowa, April 1966)

  Nagal, A. F., ‘Lies and the Lamentable Inane: Contradiction in More’s Utopia’, Renaissance Quarterly, 26 (New York, 1973)

  Nelson, William, ‘The Teaching of English in Tudor Grammar Schools’, Studies in Philology, 49, 2 (North Carolina, April 1952)

  Pineas, R., ‘Thomas More’s Use of Humour as a Weapon of Religious Controversy, Studies in Philology, 58, 2, part 1 (North Carolina, April 1961)

  ‘Thomas More’s Use of Dialogue as a Weapon of Religious Controversy’, Studies in the Renaissance, vol. 2 (New York, 1960)

  Ramsay, G. D., ‘A Saint in the City: Thomas More at the Mercers’ Hall in London’, English Historical Review, 97, 1 (1982)

  Reed, A. W., ‘John Clement and his Books’, The Library, 4th series, 6 (1926)

  Scarisbrick, J. J., ‘Thomas More: The King’s Good Servant’, Thought (New York, 1977)

  Schoeck, R. J., ‘The Place of Sir Thomas More in Legal History and Tradition: Some Notes and Observations’, The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 23 (Notre-Dame, 1978)

  ‘Sir Thomas More and Lincoln’s Inn Revels’, Philological Quarterly, 24 (Iowa, October 1950)

  Starkey, David, ‘Court, Council and Nobility in Tudor England’, in Princes, Patronage and Nobility, ed. R. G. Asch and A. M. Birke (London, 1991)

  ‘Communications: A Reply’, The Historical Journal, 31, 4 (London, 1988)

  Strayer, J. R. and Queller, D. G., ‘Studia Gratiana. XV’, Essays on Medieval Law (Bologna, 1972)

  Surtz, E., ‘St Thomas More and his Utopian Embassy of 1515’, The Catholic Historical Review, 34, 3 (Washington, D.C., 1953)

  Sutton, A., ‘Order and Fashio
n in Clothes: The King, his Household and the City of London at the End of the 15th Century’, Textile History, 22, 2 (Autumn 1991)

  Thompson, E., ‘The Humanism of More Reappraised’, Thought (New York, 1977)

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  NOTES

  I: This Dark World

  1 Hilton, Scale of Perfection, 251

  2 Fisher, 161

  3 Lane Fox, 435

  4 Yale, vol. 13, Treatise on the Passion, 42

  5 Quoted in Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, 69

  II: Pretty Plays of Childhood

  1 Thrupp, 144

  2 Stow, 284

  3 E. E. Reynolds, ‘More, Coverdale and Cromwell’, Moreana, vol. 3(10), 77

  4 Bridgett, 6

  5 There is another Thomas Graunger, merchant and later alderman, who is likely to have been Thomas More’s uncle.

  6 Quoted in Starkey, ‘Court, Council and Nobility in Tudor England’, 191

  7 Pico della Mirandola, 4

  8 Reynolds, The Field is Won, 18

  9 Sutton, ‘Order and Fashion in Clothes’, 263

  10 Sullivan, vol. 3, 315

  11 Yale, vol. 3 (2), 254

  12 The English Works of Sir Thomas More, 165

  13 Yale, vol. 6, 313

  14 E. E. Reynolds, ‘Relict of Sir John’, Moreana, vol. 5 (19–20), 25

  15 Thrupp, 134

  16 Ibid., 136

  17 Yale, vol. 8, 492

  18 Yale, vol. 12, 159

  19 Yale, vol. 6, 94

  20 Yale, vol. 11, 208

  21 Quoted in Orme, 138

  22 Quoted in de la Bère, 68

  23 Yale, vol. 12, 114

  24 Ibid., 116–17

  25 Ibid., 115

  26 Quoted in Thrupp, 202

  27 Sneyd, 20–2

  28 Ibid., 21

  29 Ibid., 22

  30 Ibid., 42

  III: St Anthony’s Pigs

  1 Yale, vol. 12, 46

  2 Quoted in Orme, 119

  3 Pendrill, 4–6

  4 Stow, 259

  5 Ibid., 194

  6 Chaucer, 376

  7 Roper, ed. Singer, 3

  8 Quoted in William Nelson, ‘The Teaching of English in Tudor Grammar Schools’, 124–5

  9 Ibid., 124

  10 Quoted in Wegg, 129

  11 Chaucer, 376

  12 Quoted in Pattison, 10

  13 Translated in Wegg, 104