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Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern)

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Description for Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern) Paperback. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.

Thomas More is a complex and controversial figure who has been regarded as both saint and persecutor, leading humanist and a representative of late medieval culture. His religious writings, with their stark and at times violent attacks on what More regarded as heresy, have been hotly debated. In Writing Faith and Telling Tales, Thomas Betteridge sets More's writings in a broad cultural and chronological context, compares them to important works of late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century vernacular theology, and makes a compelling argument for the revision of existing histories of Thomas More and his legacy.

Betteridge focuses on four areas ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022396
SKU
V9780268022396
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Thomas Betteridge
Thomas Betteridge is professor of theatre at Brunel University. He is the author of a number of books, including Literature and Politics in the English Reformation, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama.

Reviews for Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More (ND ReFormations: Medieval & Early Modern)
“In scarcely two hundred pages, Betteridge attempts to weave together several generations of literature, exploring the English writings of Sir Thomas More (as well as the Latin Utopia) through comparison and contrast with over a dozen vernacular authors from the previous two centuries, including Chaucer, Langland, and Skelton. . . . Students of the English authors discussed here will take ... Read more

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