HIST 4043 Lecture : NOTES ON THOMAS MORE
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He was canonized by the church in the 1920s. He was also a very fervent persecutor of heretics. As lord chancellor of england, he was directly responsible for the. Trial and burning of a number of heretics. He was brutal in his support for his own faith. He wrote reams of material denouncing martin luther and other. He went into law but was always attracted to religion. He took his faith very seriously and abused himself in order to. He was one of the most promient intellectuals of the 16th century. He had an exceptionally sharp mind and was an author of. He came to the king"s attention by his virtues as a lawyer and a. He served as an ambassador to the king of the low countried this. His ideal society probably wasn"t utopia but he was a humanist. Humanism was spreading rapidly among the educated classes. He took it beyond ordinary fashion he said all of his daughters.
