The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings - The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics - Travis Curtright - Books - University of Notre Dame Press - 9780268209148 - April 15, 2025
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The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings - The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics

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The Controversial Thomas More offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas More and his opposition to King Henry VIII. Thomas More is known for refusing the oath of succession and remaining silent about his reasons for doing so. His prison literature, however, tells a different story.

Under the threat of execution, More waged an astonishingly prolific and often coded writing campaign in rebuke of King Henry VIII’s claim to be supreme head of the Church in England. Travis Curtright’s groundbreaking book shows how William Rastell, More’s nephew and printer, fashioned a historically inaccurate depiction of More, one that persists to this day. He asserted while imprisoned in the Tower of London, More stopped his polemical writing and turned his mind exclusively toward heaven.

In contrast, Curtright proves that More’s prison writings are not just devotional literature but also a powerful defense of a united Church under the pope, reestablishing More as a key political and religious thinker, defiant of King Henry VIII. Most scholars restrict More’s political thought to his Utopia, but The Controversial Thomas More shows how his prison writings best reveal his ideas of political unity and authority, and is a reconsideration of More’s legacy and place in the history of the Henrician Reformation.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 15, 2025
ISBN13 9780268209148
Publishers University of Notre Dame Press
Pages 260
Dimensions 160 × 235 × 21 mm   ·   504 g
Language English  

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