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Jul 2, 2024 · Utopia, book by Thomas More, published in 1516. Derived from the Greek for “no place” ( ou topos) and coined by More, the word utopia refers to an imaginary and perfect world, an ideally organized state.
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Thomas More was an English humanist and chancellor of...
- Utopias and Dystopias
Sir Thomas More’s learned satire Utopia (1516)—the title is...
- Thomas More
Jul 2, 2024 · Thomas More was an English humanist and chancellor of England who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
1 day ago · He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. [6] More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and William Tyndale.
Jun 24, 2024 · Sir Thomas More’s learned satire Utopia (1516)—the title is based on a pun of the Greek words eutopia (“good place”) and outopia (“no place”)—shed an analytic light on 16th-century England along rational, humanistic lines.
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3 days ago · The Leighton Library has a 1629 edition of "Utopia" (about the political system of an imaginary island state) by noted Renaissance humanist and statesman (who was England's Lord High Chancellor) Sir Thomas More who was executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England #OnThisDay 6 July 1535.
Jul 1, 2024 · Summary. Utopia—the term derived from Thomas More’s 1516 volume by that name—always suggested a place that was both non-existent, a product of the imagination usually depicted fictionally as far distant in time or space, and better than the real and familiar world.
Jun 27, 2024 · The Utopia of Sir Thomas More, in Latin by Thomas More Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library from the edition of March 1518, and in English from the 1st ed. of Ralph Robynson's translation in 1551, with additional translations, introduction and notes by J. H. Lupton.
