“I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first”
— Sir Thomas More
By Frank Mitjans
Catholic University of America Press
A brand new book exploring the events that influenced Thomas More on finding his vocation.
Details
Published
31st March, 2023
Formats
Hardcover, eBook
ISBN
9780813236100
Concepción Cabrillana’s is a translation into Spanish of one of the first Latin works of More which includes More’s “Dedicatory Letter to Thomas Ruthall”; the translation from the Greek of three “Dialogues of Lucian: Cynicus, Menippus, and Philopseudes”; and his “Declamation on Tyrannicide”; as well as More’s own response to Lucian’s declamation. Read more
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The recently published Essential Works of Thomas More edited by Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith (Yale University Press, 2020), which includes most of the works by Thomas More and the earliest biographical accounts, gives the opportunity of revising assumptions and of giving credit where credit is due. Read more
Holbein produced a drawing of Sir Thomas More and his Family which was a preparatory sketch for a larger painting. The painting was acquired by Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkron (1623–95), Archbishop of Olomouc, Moravia, and was last recorded in 1691 as being kept in the episcopal residence in Olomouc Read more
As his friend David Baird- Smith, who first met him at Cambridge University in the 1970’s, likes to recall, “In the line with Thomas More, Dominic, as a gentleman and a scholar, combined erudition and friendship most naturally.” Read more
This first English translation of the Historia ecclesiastica del scisma del reyno de Inglaterra 1 represents an important contribution to studies of the Reformation in England. The Historia was originally published early in 1588 and offered a Catholic view of the English Reformation by a Spanish Jesuit, which has been the account held by most people in Spain since then… Read more