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Browse through the published articles and reviews by Frank Mitjans
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Concepción Cabrillana, Tomás Moro: Diálogos de Luciano. Introducción, traducción del original latino y notas
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.
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De tristitia tedio pavore et oratione christi ante captione eius: The last work by St Thomas More, 2021
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…
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The “Discovery” of the Autograph of Thomas More’s De Tristitia Christi through Andrés Vázquez de Prada, June 2021
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.
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Oedipus’s Riddle: Elizabethan transformation of the family portrait of Thomas More, an Appendix to “Non sum Oedipus sed Morus”, December 2019
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
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In Memoriam, Dominic Baker-Smith, December 2019
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.”
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Review: Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s “Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England”: A Spanish Jesuit’s History of the English Reformation, ed. and trans. Spencer J. Weinreich, June 2018
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…
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St Thomas More and St John Chrysostom, December 2016
In the introduction to Translations of Lucian, More wrote that “of all learned men” Chrysostom was “the most Christian and – at least in [his] opinion – of all Christians the most learned.” It is worth considering how much they were in tune.
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Review of the exhibition, The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein, June 2013
Exhibition: The Northern Renaissance: Durer to Holbein, The Royal Collection, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
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Reviewing and correcting the Date of Birth of Thomas More, December 2012
An article I wrote on the ‘Date of Birth of Thomas More’ was published in the December 2010 issue of Moreana. I am grateful to the Editor,
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The Date of Birth of Thomas More, December 2010
Since the discovery in 1868 of the memoranda written by Thomas More’s father, most scholars have held that More was born on 7 February 1478. Some, however, have considered the evidence to be problematic and argued for 7 February 1477 or 6 February 1478 instead.
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A Paper on the Portrait of Sir Thomas More and his Family, March 2007
Frank Mitjans is an architect who has worked in London since 1976. He was introduced to the significance of the figure of St. Thomas More by Andrés Vázquez de Prada (1923-2005), author of the biography, Sir Tomás Moro, Lord Canciller de Inglaterra (Madrid, 1962).
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