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Young Thomas More and the arts of liberty /

"This book analyzes Thomas More's earliest thoughts on the statecraft needed to enhance liberty and peace in a culture favoring war. It includes a close study of his little-known works - his poetry, letters, Lucian translations, declamation on tyrannicide, coronation ode for Henry VIII, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wegemer, Gerard, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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'?