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Remember Sir Thomas More in HBO’s “The Tudors”? The good guy who had his head chopped off by Henry VIII for challenging the king’s will? This scholar wrote a philosophical tale about an ...
In Search of Utopia at M-Museum, Leuven and Utopia & More at the University Library, Leuven are both on show until 17th January 2017. Portrait of Thomas More, c1527 by Hans Holbein the Younger ...
One detail from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia stuck with me after reading it long ago, and it’s come to mind with some regularity over the past few months: on More’s imaginary island, anyone who aspired to ...
IT WAS meant as a joke, of sorts. Even the title of Thomas More’s “Utopia”, which was published 500 years ago this month, was composed with the author's tongue in his cheek: a Greek pun on ...