Thomas More’s Followers (1,098)

Thomas More

Born

in London, England

December 15, 1477

Died

May 07, 1535

Genre

Philosophy, Religion

Influences

Desiderius Erasmus ...more

edit data

Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was a councillor to Henry VIII and also served as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.

More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted ...more

Combine Editions
Thomas More’s books

Average rating: 3.56 · 84,739 ratings · 5,335 reviews · 442 distinct works • Similar authors

	Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 82,229 ratings — published 1516 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville 3.38 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades by Thomas More, David Wootton 3.93 avg rating — 172 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation 4.07 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1534 — 147 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, Wendy Beckett (Foreword by) 3.43 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1518 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sadness of Christ and Final Prayers and Benedictions by Thomas More, Clarence H. Miller (Translator), Gerard Wegemer (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1535 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sadness of Christ 4.43 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1535 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Letters of Thomas More by Thomas More, Alvaro De Silva (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utopías del Renacimiento by Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon 3.71 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Last Things / The Supplication of Souls / A Dialogue on Conscience 3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Thomas More…

Series by Thomas More

Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More (7 books)
by

Thomas More,

Daniel Kinney (Editor)

3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings

Quotes by Thomas More (?)

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves

1013 likes

“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

tags: beauty

268 likes

“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

tags: clothing, fashion, humorous, renaissance

249 likes

See all Thomas More's quotes »

Polls

September 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 1889, 184 pages

48 votes, 15.3%

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1600, 289 pages

43 votes, 13.7%

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 1894, 277 pages

33 votes, 10.5%

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 1889, 416 pages

26 votes, 8.3%

Utopia by Thomas More 1516, 135 pages

25 votes, 8.0%

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 1839, 817 pages

19 votes, 6.1%

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 1883, 327 pages

19 votes, 6.1%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 176 pages

18 votes, 5.7%

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895, 310 pages

17 votes, 5.4%

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 1790, 269 pages

16 votes, 5.1%

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages

15 votes, 4.8%

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1883, 400 pages

13 votes, 4.1%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 1885, 416 pages

10 votes, 3.2%

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox 1752, 464 pages

9 votes, 2.9%

East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood 1861, 694 pages

3 votes, 1.0%

314 total votes

13 comments

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL SPRING CHALLENGE - 2009	6381	9039	Jun 14, 2009 02:57PM
The Seasonal Read...: FALL CHALLENGE 2009 PLANS	167	1528	Oct 14, 2009 08:10AM
College Students! : Fall/Winter Challenge: Official Record of Points	44	748	Dec 14, 2009 09:25AM
The Classics: * Master Book List	36	1066	Jun 11, 2010 09:06AM
The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)	2785	1208	Nov 30, 2010 09:03PM
Reading with Style: FA10 RwS Completed Tasks	923	431	Dec 01, 2010 06:41AM

More…