Thomas More - Louis L. Martz
The Search for the Inner Man
KORTE INHOUD
Recent writings about Thomas More have questioned his integrity and motivation and have challenged the long-held view of him as a humane, wise, and heroic "man for all seasons." This new book responds to these revisionist studies by closely and persuasively analyzing More's writings as well as Holbein's portraits of More and his family. "Martz cuts down the revived charge of More as a bloodthirsty hunter of heretics, a furious, sexually repressed, and frustrated man. . . . This penetrating rebuttal of the revisionists deserves high commendation."--Choice "Martz draws a compelling picture of More's attempts during his lonely imprisonment to adjust to his human fear of death and to see his own plight in the perspective of the universal human condition. In these essays More's voice and personality speak to us from his own literate and humorous prose."--M. Edmund Hussey, Antioch Review "In his gracefully written Thomas More: The Search for the Inner Man, Louis L. Martz provides a sharply different account of the ...
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1992Uitgever: Yale University Press124 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300056680ISBN-13: 9780300056686Koop dit boek tweedehands
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112 p. Paperback (Fine copy.) New Haven-London, Yale University Press. 1990 [Auteur: Martz, Louis L.] [Jaar: 1990] [Titel: Thomas More. The Search for the Inner Man]
