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    Feast of St. Thomas More

    Posted by Chicago Boyz Archive on June 22nd, 2011 (All posts by )

    (I highly recommend Peter Ackroyd’s balanced and brilliant biography, The Life of Thomas More.)

     

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 at 2:53 pm and is filed under Arts & Letters, Book Notes, Britain, History, Religion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    3 Responses to “Feast of St. Thomas More”

    1. miriam Says:
      June 24th, 2011 at 9:07 pm

      I have no use for him. he executed many when he had the power to do so. He courted martyrdom; he and his family could have fled to France as many others did. He wore a hair shirt, for God’s sake.

    2. Lexington Green Says:
      June 24th, 2011 at 10:42 pm

      Read Ackroyd.

    3. Alastair Says:
      July 1st, 2011 at 2:30 pm

      “A Man for all Seasons” remains one of my favourite films, and the Ackroyd biography is good (as are most of his books). But “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantell rounds the picture of More and Cromwell perfectly. A brilliant book I can’t recommend enough. Mantell brings this most interesting bit of English history to life.

      Alastair

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