Young Thomas More and the arts of liberty
What does it mean to be a free citizen in times of war and tyranny? What kind of education is needed to be a 'first' or leading citizen in a strife-filled country? And what does it mean to be free when freedom is forcibly opposed? These concerns pervade Thomas More's earliest writings...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Young Thomas More: why do peace and prosperity require arts of Humanitas?
- Fashioning peace and prosperity: what are the necessary arts?
- Cicero's and More's First Citizens: how do they avoid faction and civil war?
- More's earliest views of Humanitas, Libertas, and Respublica, 1500-1506
- More's Life of Pico della Mirandola (c. 1504-1507): a model of Libertas and Humanitas?
- More's 1509 coronation ode: artful education of eighteen-year-old Henry VIII?
- Political poems of 1509-1516: proposing self-government by 'sound deliberation'
- Richard III, diagnosing the causes of England's plague of war
- Utopia: a model Respublica of peace, liberty, and self-government?
- The un-utopian Thomas More Family Portrait: an icon of Morean Humanitas?
- The arts of liberty: can peace and prosperity be fashioned by 'sound deliberation'?