The Life of Thomas More
by Peter Ackroyd
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Author: Peter AckroydEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-11-09
ISBN: 0385496931
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: "A Magnificent Read...Completes More in Context of His Time"
Summary: 5 Stars
Akroyd's work places Thomas More in context of the social, polictical, economical, eccelsiastical, and humanistic milieu of the sixteenth century Catholic England "More" knew. Other biographers are a bit more anachronistic in dealing with More's world and end up conjuring a sixteenth century "they" understand instead...Akroyd is far from this. Akroyd gives a vivid account of More's surroundings - his schools, were he lived, the churches and charter houses he frequented, and Catholic England in general. This doesn't suprise me since Akroyd is a Londoner himself. He also paints a wonderful picture of the piety pre-reformation England was akin to and describes the "common faith" all Londoner's held without trying to stigmatize anything and everything possible as other authors who write their histories out a reformation lense tend to do. So I found a More properly placed in his time and surroundings free from unecessary predjudice and critical pomp with a certain twist that surfaces More's personality and conscience in an age of importance and transition.
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