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Articles
The most important source of information remains Moreana (Angers, 1963), the periodical devoted to More studies. Other articles of particular relevance are listed below.
Allen, P. R., ‘Utopia and European Humanism’, Renaissance Studies, 9 and 10 (New York, 1962–3)
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Derrett, J., ‘Thomas More and the Legislation of the Corporation of London’, Guildhall Miscellany (1963)
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Gordon, W. M., ‘The Monastic Achievement and More’s Utopia’, Medieval et Humanistic, New Series, no. 9 (Cambridge, 1979)
Harper-Bill, C., ‘Archbishop John Morton and the Province of Canterbury. 1486–1500’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 29, 1 (January 1978)
Hastings, M., ‘The Ancestry of Sir Thomas More’, Guildhall Miscellany (1961)
Hexter, J. H., ‘The Loom of Language and the Fabric of Imperatives: The case of Il Principe and Utopia’, The American Historical Review, 69, 4 (New York, July 1964)
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‘Legal Humanism and the Sense of History’, Studies in the Renaissance, vol. 13 (New York, 1966)
Kinney, D., ‘More’s Letter to Dorp: Remapping the Trivium’, Renaissance Quarterly, 24, 2 (New York, 1981)
Lehmberg, S. E., ‘Sir Thomas More’s Life of Pico Della Mirandola’, Studies in the Renaissance (New York, 1956)
Marsh, T. N., ‘Humour and Invective in Early Tudor Polemic’, Rice Institute Pamphlets, 44 (Houston, 1957)
Martz, L., ‘Thomas More: The Sacramental Life’, Thought (New York, 1977)
Miles, L., ‘The Literary Artistry of Thomas More: The Dialogue of Comfort’, Studies in English Literature, 6, 1 (Nieuwkoop, 1966)
‘With a Coal? The Composition of Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort’, Philological Quarterly, 45, 2 (Iowa, April 1966)
Nagal, A. F., ‘Lies and the Lamentable Inane: Contradiction in More’s Utopia’, Renaissance Quarterly, 26 (New York, 1973)
Nelson, William, ‘The Teaching of English in Tudor Grammar Schools’, Studies in Philology, 49, 2 (North Carolina, April 1952)
Pineas, R., ‘Thomas More’s Use of Humour as a Weapon of Religious Controversy, Studies in Philology, 58, 2, part 1 (North Carolina, April 1961)
‘Thomas More’s Use of Dialogue as a Weapon of Religious Controversy’, Studies in the Renaissance, vol. 2 (New York, 1960)
Ramsay, G. D., ‘A Saint in the City: Thomas More at the Mercers’ Hall in London’, English Historical Review, 97, 1 (1982)
Reed, A. W., ‘John Clement and his Books’, The Library, 4th series, 6 (1926)
Scarisbrick, J. J., ‘Thomas More: The King’s Good Servant’, Thought (New York, 1977)
Schoeck, R. J., ‘The Place of Sir Thomas More in Legal History and Tradition: Some Notes and Observations’, The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 23 (Notre-Dame, 1978)
‘Sir Thomas More and Lincoln’s Inn Revels’, Philological Quarterly, 24 (Iowa, October 1950)
Starkey, David, ‘Court, Council and Nobility in Tudor England’, in Princes, Patronage and Nobility, ed. R. G. Asch and A. M. Birke (London, 1991)
‘Communications: A Reply’, The Historical Journal, 31, 4 (London, 1988)
Strayer, J. R. and Queller, D. G., ‘Studia Gratiana. XV’, Essays on Medieval Law (Bologna, 1972)
Surtz, E., ‘St Thomas More and his Utopian Embassy of 1515’, The Catholic Historical Review, 34, 3 (Washington, D.C., 1953)
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n in Clothes: The King, his Household and the City of London at the End of the 15th Century’, Textile History, 22, 2 (Autumn 1991)
Thompson, E., ‘The Humanism of More Reappraised’, Thought (New York, 1977)
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NOTES
I: This Dark World
1 Hilton, Scale of Perfection, 251
2 Fisher, 161
3 Lane Fox, 435
4 Yale, vol. 13, Treatise on the Passion, 42
5 Quoted in Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, 69
II: Pretty Plays of Childhood
1 Thrupp, 144
2 Stow, 284
3 E. E. Reynolds, ‘More, Coverdale and Cromwell’, Moreana, vol. 3(10), 77
4 Bridgett, 6
5 There is another Thomas Graunger, merchant and later alderman, who is likely to have been Thomas More’s uncle.
6 Quoted in Starkey, ‘Court, Council and Nobility in Tudor England’, 191
7 Pico della Mirandola, 4
8 Reynolds, The Field is Won, 18
9 Sutton, ‘Order and Fashion in Clothes’, 263
10 Sullivan, vol. 3, 315
11 Yale, vol. 3 (2), 254
12 The English Works of Sir Thomas More, 165
13 Yale, vol. 6, 313
14 E. E. Reynolds, ‘Relict of Sir John’, Moreana, vol. 5 (19–20), 25
15 Thrupp, 134
16 Ibid., 136
17 Yale, vol. 8, 492
18 Yale, vol. 12, 159
19 Yale, vol. 6, 94
20 Yale, vol. 11, 208
21 Quoted in Orme, 138
22 Quoted in de la Bère, 68
23 Yale, vol. 12, 114
24 Ibid., 116–17
25 Ibid., 115
26 Quoted in Thrupp, 202
27 Sneyd, 20–2
28 Ibid., 21
29 Ibid., 22
30 Ibid., 42
III: St Anthony’s Pigs
1 Yale, vol. 12, 46
2 Quoted in Orme, 119
3 Pendrill, 4–6
4 Stow, 259
5 Ibid., 194
6 Chaucer, 376
7 Roper, ed. Singer, 3
8 Quoted in William Nelson, ‘The Teaching of English in Tudor Grammar Schools’, 124–5
9 Ibid., 124
10 Quoted in Wegg, 129
11 Chaucer, 376
12 Quoted in Pattison, 10
13 Translated in Wegg, 104
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