Author:Thomas More

Thomas More
(1478–1535)

Thomas More

Works

• Works translated by Arthur Cayley (1808) IA 1, IA 2

• History of King Richard III (1513/1518) (1883 ed.) (transcription project)
• Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia)
  • Leuven edition (1516) (Latin)
  • Basle edition (1518) (Latin)
    • Utopia (Robinson ed.) (1551), translated into English by Ralph Robinson) IA, IA
    • (1639) IA
    • Utopia (1684), translated into English by Gilbert Burnet)
    • (1753) IA
    • Memoirs of the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of England, To which is added, his History of Utopia, translated by Ferdinando Warner, 1758 IA
    • Utopia: or, The happy republic, 1845 IA James Augustus St. John edition
    • The Utopia of Sir Thomas More: in Latin from the edition of March 1518, and in English from the 1st ed. of Ralph Robynson's translation in 1551, (1895 Joseph Hirst Lupton edition) IA
    • Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social Contract, More's Utopia, 1901 IA
• Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534)
• Lady Fortune, lengthy poem berating those who trust in luck
• Letter to his daughter, Margaret, July 5, 1535 – the night before he was beheaded.
• Prayer of Thomas More, written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London

English works

• A mery jest how a sergeant would learne to playe the frere
• The Boke of the fayre Gentylwoman that no man shoulde put his truste or confydence in: that is to say, Lady Fortune
• Life of John Picus, Earl of Mirandula, a great Lord of Italy, an excellent, cunning man in all sciences, and virtuous of living, with divers Epistles and other works of the said John Picus (1510), from the Latin of Giovanni Francesco Pico (1498)
• A dyaloge of Syr Thomas More, knt., one of the council of our sovereign lord the king, and chancellor of his duchy of Lancaster. Wherein be treatyd divers matters, as of the veneration and worshyp of Ymagys and relygues, prayyng to sayntys and goyng on pylgrymage, wyth many othere thyngys touchyng the pestylent sect of Luther and Tyndale, by the tone bygone in Saxony, and by the tother laboryd to be brought into England. Made in the year of our Lord 1528 (1529)
• Supplycacyon of Soulys (n.d.)
• The Confutacyon of Tyndale's Answere (1532)
• The second parte of the Confutacyon of Tyndal's Answere, in which is also confuted the Chyrche that Tyndale deuyseth and the Chyrche also that Frere Barus deuyseth (1533)
• The Apologye of Syr Thomas More, Knyght, made by him Anno 1533 after he had geuen over the office of Lord Chancellour of Englande (1533)
• Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance (1533)
• A Letter impugnynge the erronyouse wrytyng of John Fryth against the blessed Sacrament of the Aultare (1533)
• The Answer to the first part of the poysoned Booke which a nameless Hereticke hath named "The Supper of the Lord, Anno 1533" (1534)
• A Dyaloge of Comfort against Tribulation (1553)
• The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knyght, sometyme Lord Chancellour of England; wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge (1557), edited by William Rastell
  • The four last things, (1903 ed) IA

Latin Works

• Luciani Dialogi … compluria opuscula longe festinissimo ab Erasmo Roterodamo et Thoma Moro interpretibus optimis in Latinorum lingua traducta hac sequentur serie (1506)
• Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimique viri Thomæ Mori Britanni, pleraque e Græcis versa (1518)
• Thomæ Mori Epistola ad Germanum Brixium: qui quum Morvs in Libellum eius quo contumeliosis Mendacjisincesserat Angliam lusisset aliquot epigrammata, ædidit adversus Morum libellum qui … suum infamat authorem (1520)
• Eruditissimi viri G. Rossei opus … quo refellit … Lutheri calumnias, quibus … Angliæ … regem Henricum … octavum scurra turpissimus insectatur: excusum denuo … adjunctis indicibus opera … J. Carcellij (1523)
• Epistola contra Pomeranum (1568)
• Thomæ Mori v.c. Dissertatio Epistolica de aliquot sui temporis Theologastrorum ineptijs deque correctione translationis vulgatæ N. Testamenti. Ad Martinum Dorpium Theologum Lovaniensem (1625)
• Epistola T. Mori ad Academiam Oxon. Cui adjecta sunt quædam poemata … in mortem … R. Cottoni et T. Alleni (1633)

Works about More

• The Life Arraignement and Death of that Mirrour of all true Honour and Vertue, Syr Thomas More (1626), by William Roper (his son-in-law) (1822 ed) IA; The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatness; Or, The Life of Sir Thomas More, Knight, 1903 ed IA
• Thomas More in "Ecclesiastical biography" by Christopher Wordsworth, 1810 IA
• Character of Sir Thomas More, by Erasmus from "The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal", Volume 8. 1818-12-01 IA
• Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, 1829 IA
• Sir Thomas More by Sir J. Mackintosh, in "Eminent British statesmen" Vol. 1, 1831 IA
• A Memoir of Sir Thomas More: With Extracts from His Works and Letters by Emily Taylor, 1834 IA
• Sir Thomas More. His life and times, by William Joseph Walter, 1839 IA
• Philomorus. A brief examination of the Latin poems of Sir Thomas More by John Howard Marsden, 1842 IA
• Sir Thomas More: A Play by The Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1844 IA
• The Household of Sir Thomas More by Anne Manning, 1852 IA
• Sir Thomas More in "Lectures on great men" by Frederic Myers, 1857 IA
• Sir Thomas More in "Memorials of the early lives and doings of great lawyers" by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, 1866 IA
• Sir Thomas More—The description of Richard III. in "Five centuries of the English language and literature" by Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz, 1867 IA
• The Oxford reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More, by Frederic Seebohm, 1869 IA
• The three chancellors, or, Sketches of the lives of William of Wykenham, William Waynflete and Sir Thomas More, by Augusta Theodosia Drane, 1875? IA
• The Life and Letters of Sir Thomas More by Agnes M. Stewart, 1876 IA
• Utopias: or, Schemes of social improvement. From Sir Thomas More to Karl Marx by Moritz Kaufmann, 1879 IA
• Sir Thomas More in "The portrait gallery of eminent lawyers" by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1880 IA
• Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City, 1890 IA
• Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More: Lord Chancellor of England and Martyr Under Henry VIII by Thomas Edward Bridgett, 1891 IA
• The Wisdom and Wit of Blessed Thomas More, 1892 IA
• Sir Thomas More by William Holden Hutton, 1895 IA
• Sir Thomas More in "Prisoners of the Tower of London" by Violet Brooke-Hunt, 1901 IA
• Sir Thomas More in "English social reformers" by Henry de Beltgens Gibbins, 1902 IA
• Sir Thomas More in "Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century" by Sir Sidney Lee, 1904 IA
• Sir Thomas More and the Courtier in "Anecdotes And Examples Illustrating The Catholic Catechism", 1904 IA
• Lives of the English martyrs declared blessed by Pope Leo XIII, in 1886 and 1895. by Bede Camm, 1904 IA
• The social theories of Sir Thomas More. in "Socialism before the French revolution" by William Buck Guthrie, 1907 IA
• Sir Thomas More and freedom of conscience in "Leaders of the people; studies in democratic history" by Joseph Clayton, 1910 IA
• Memoranda on the recently discovered portrait of Sir Thomas More, painted by Albert Durer by Timothy Casey, 1911 IA
• The book of Sir Thomas More (a play by William Shakespeare ?), 1911 IA
• "More, Sir Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "More, Sir Thomas," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "More, Sir Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "More, Thomas (1478-1535)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Bl. Thomas More," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)