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Moore, Thomas; More, Thomas

 
9780802843944: The Last Letters of Thomas More
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ISBN 10: 0802843948 ISBN 13: 9780802843944
Editorial: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001

Sinopsis

Written from the Tower of London, these letters of Thomas More still speak powerfully today.The story of Thomas More, recently told in Peter Ackroyd’s bestselling biography, is well known. In the spring of 1534, Thomas More was taken to the Tower of London, and after fourteen months in prison, the brilliant 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 is a superb new edition of 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.

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A native of Spain, he is a Catholic priest who lives and works in Boston. He has edited several works of Thomas More in Spanish, including De Tristitia Christi (1979), A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (1988), and More's correspondence, collected in two volumes (1988, 1998). He is also the editor of a new Spanish edition of William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More (2000).

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Editorial
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802843948
ISBN 13 
9780802843944
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
224
Editor
De Silva Alvaro
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