Volume 25, Number 15 · October 12, 1978
The Lesson of Thomas More
By Quentin Skinner
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 2: The History of King Richard III
edited by Richard S. Sylvester
Yale University Press, 312 pp., $27.59
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 3 (Part I): Translations of Lucian
edited by Craig R. Thompson
Yale University Press, 218 pp., $18.50
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 4: Utopia
edited by Edward Surtz, edited by S. J. and J. H. Hexter
Yale University Press, 629 pp., $32.50
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 5: Responsio ad Lutherum
edited by John M. Headley, translated by Sister Scholastica Mandeville
Yale University Press, 1,036 pp., 2-vol. set $52.50
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 8: The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
edited by Louis A. Schuster, edited by Richard C. Marius, edited by James P. Lusardi, edited by Richard J. Schoeck
Yale University Press, 1,831 pp., 3-vol. set $90.00
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 12: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation
edited by Louis L. Martz, edited by Frank Manley
Yale University Press, 720 pp., $45.00
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 13: Treatise on the Passion; Treatise on the Blessed Body; Instructions and Prayers
edited by Garry E. Haupt
Yale University Press, 544 pp., $37.50
The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 14 (Parts I and I): De Tristitia Christi
edited by Clarence H. Miller
Yale University Press, 1,210 pp., 2-vol. set $65.00
Utopia
by Thomas More, translated and edited by Robert M. Adams
Norton, 239 pp., $2.95 (paper)
This is the five-hundredth anniversary of Sir Thomas More's birth. Anniversaries are traditionally a time for taking stock, so it seems an appropriate moment to ask what reasons there may be for continuing to think about More's life and writings so many centuries after his death.
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