In addition to various publications on English and Neo-Latin literature he is the author of More’s ‘Utopia’ (1991, 2000) and has edited three volumes in the Toronto Collected Works of Erasmus. In 1976 he became Professor of English at University College, Cardiff, and then moved to the University of Amsterdam in 1981 where he is now Emeritus Professor. After teaching in Canada he returned to Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and Lecturer in the Faculty of English. DOMINIC BAKER-SMITH graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. Adopted by the Catholic Counter-Reformation as an exemplary figure, he was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935. His death caused shock abroad, especially among his fellow humanists. In July 1535, after he refused to accept the royal supremacy over the Church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. During his imprisonment he wrote a number of spiritual works, among them A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, one of his finest writings. Required in 1534 to take the oath of succession, which rejected Papal jurisdiction and the validity of Henry’s marriage to Catherine, he declined and was sent to the Tower of London. Henry VIII’s estrangement from Rome on account of his desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon increasingly put More’s position under pressure and he resigned as Chancellor in 1532, although he remained involved in controversy. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters, writing works against Luther and Tyndale, among others, and sought to restrict the spread of heresy. He became a privy councillor of Henry VIII in 1518 and was elected Speaker of the Commons in 1523 six years later he succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as Lord Chancellor, becoming the tenth layman to hold that office. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. He had a precocious career in the City, acting for the Mercers’ Company, sitting in Parliament, and becoming Undersheriff. Summoned by his father to legal studies in London, he was called to the Bar from Lincoln’s Inn in 1501. He served as a page in the household of Cardinal Morton, who sent him on to study at Oxford. THOMAS MORE was born a Londoner in 1478, the son of a successful lawyer. UTOPIA Map of Utopia The Utopian Alphabet and a Quatrain in the Utopian Language A Literal Translation of the Utopian Quatrain Anemolius’ Stanza on the Island of Utopia Thomas More’s First Letter to Peter Giles Peter Giles’s Letter to Jerome Busleyden Thomas More’s Second Letter to Peter Giles BOOK ONE BOOK TWO Appendix 1: ‘Between friends all is common’ Appendix 2: An Account of the Taíno People Glossary of Names Notes Acknowledgements THOMAS MORE Utopia Translated, edited and introduced by DOMINIC BAKER-SMITHĬontents Chronology Introduction Further Reading A Note on the Text
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