The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters...

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Daniel Kinney Thomas More

The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More

Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford, Lee, and a Monk

Daniel Kinney, Thomas More

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Yale University
10 September 1986

Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600; Religion & beliefs; Christian theology

Series: The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More

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Publication of this volume brings to conclusion the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, a thirty-year publishing project of landmark importance in the study of humanism in Western history. The volume contains More's earliest works, probably written between 1492 and 1522, including English poems, a translation and devotional adaptation of Giovanni Francesco Pico's life of his famous uncle Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and a devotional prose work. These texts together trace More's earliest career as a humanist through his transition to maturity as a defender of the faith.

The English poems (c. 1492-1494) are lively and experimental works, written at a time when English poetry was in its doldrums. This collection includes verses for a series of painted hangings in More's father's house, a lament for Queen Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII, traditional and sober Fortune verses, and a lively medieval comic poem, A Merry Gest of a Sergeant and a Friar . The Life of Pico (C. 1510) is very likely More's earliest prose work and is his only extended translation of another writer's Latin into English. The translation is remarkable for its time, when sophisticated Latin was difficult to translate into more primitive English. The Last Things (c. 1522) is an incomplete prose work that re-creates the tradition of writing on death, judgment, hell, and heaven as objects of meditation.

By: Thomas More
Edited by: Daniel Kinney
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 1.179kg
ISBN: 9780300031614
ISBN 10: 0300031610
Series: The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Pages: 662
Publication Date: 10 September 1986
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print