Sunday, June 24, 2007

More Links

* Patricia Demers's Margaret Roper and Erasmus discusses Thomas More's eldest daughter in her role as a translator.

* The Center for Thomas More Studies has a lovely library of writings by and about Thomas More.

* Karl Kautsky's 1888 work Thomas More and His Utopia is a brilliant Marxist analysis of More's Utopia, arguing that it is a biting critique of exploitation. It is not, I think, wholly right in all its particulars, or, indeed, even in all its general points (since it seems clear that More does not merely reserve his irony for societies unlike that of the Utopus but also wields it against the Utopian society itself); but it is still a key starting-point for understanding the importance and value of More's Utopia as a critique of human folly.

* Gerald Wegemer discusses Integrity and Conscience in the Thought and Life of Thomas More.

* William Roper's The Life of Thomas More at Modern History Sourcebook.

* The Franciscan Archive has an interesting collection of links on More. More, of course, was a Third Order Franciscan.

UPDATE:

* It is heartwarming to find that Sir Thomas More breaks the Google Hot Trends top 20 list for June 24 (coming in at #12).

* This looks like an interesting work: Sir Thomas More and the Art of Dialogue.