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De tristitia tedio pavore et oratione christi ante captione eius: The last work by St Thomas More, 2021

Annales Theologici 35, pp. 11-58

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Summary

I. Biographical Introduction and some of the writings of St. Thomas More. II. The autograph manuscript of the De tristitia tedio pavore et oratione Christi ante captionem eius. III. Composition. IV. The background of More’s last work. 1. Context of More’s writings within his own life, vocation, and sources available to him at the time. 2. The continental context. 3. Erasmus’s Disputatiun- cula de taedio, pavore, tristicia Iesu. V. De tristitia tedio pavore et oratione Christi ante captionem eius immediate sources, title, content and commentary. 1. The title of the book. 2. Content and commentary.