Bøger af Sir Thomas More

Thomas More's Utopia is one of the seminal, founding works of European humanism and has been such since it was first published in the early 1500s. A rewarding, but difficult, read, it is well worth the time invested.

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important counselor to Henry VIII of England. More coined the word "utopia" - a name he gave to the ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in Utopia, published in 1516.

Sixteenth-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed, and vice. Forerunner of many later attempts.