...Colin Richmond The author here extends a dialogue with Jeffrey M. Perl, published in the Spring 2010 issue of Common Knowledge , under the title “`Decorate the Dungeon.'” That dialogue concerns whether Thomas More could have avoided martyrdom though he acted with heroic quietism during...

... was title wehave ifSir sinned”?ThomasMore What had ofgivenup fancierpursuit the folly and inexperience of out for Creator, done, be will “Thy instead: whined Thomases, More and Cromwell, were they not “united in the strife which divided divided which strife the in them”? “united...

.... Elliott's: “Something is amiss when the name of Martin Guerre threatens to become better known than that of Martin Luther.” In the present piece, Thomas writes of Ginzburg, a founder of Italian microhistory, that he is more a “European intellectual” than a “mere historian,” the difference being...

... remark of J. H. Elliott’s: “Something is amiss when the name of Martin Guerre threatens to become better known than that of Martin Luther.” In the present piece, Thomas writes of Ginzburg, a founder of Italian microhistory, that he is more a “European intellectual” than a “mere historian,” the difference...

... III Thomas More Elizabeth Woodville COLUMNS UTOPIA Colin Richmond Edward IV, sailing from Lynn to the Low Countries in 1470, never gets there, as the boat sinks with all hands. Henry VI is restored...

... and, more recently, the New Urbanism. Despite the conventional separations of modernism from the more criticized mass-housing development, the same principles of security, shelter, community, and utopia are present in each. Presented by some architects as a postmodernist aesthetic, the central tenets...

... way, Rorty relied heavily on the ideas of Thomas Kuhn. The article surveys the development of science studies since Kuhn's day, sketching an intellectual genealogy for Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, whose work addresses—much more directly than Rorty's—current concerns with the climate crisis...

...), for science-centered arguments to support his own philosophical neopragmatism. The editor cites a letter from Rorty sent to him in the early 1990s, suggesting that the differences between Feyerabend and himself were temperamental more than philosophical. Rorty enjoyed referring to himself and others like him...

... as if a parable, and while its moral goes unstated, the reader's attention is drawn to the unsettled question of whether James exerted maximal effort for minimal results, or whether he knew something about the value of freshness undreamed of by those more patient and dignified in pursuing their desires. © 2013...

..., 2010) for deftly tying the apparently idiosyncratic stories of a transported convict and the noble family whose scion he impersonated to more pervasive dynamics in nineteenth-century British imperial culture. Copyright © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 microhistory Kirsten McKenzie Natalie...

... gentlemen, was “Maister More.” 253 Questions naturally arise. First, what was Thomas More doing at the abbey on April 27, 1510? Secondly, what had he done that entitled him to his preemi- nent position on the abbot’s list of distinguished dinner guests...

.... The social and political vision is resolutely hierarchical, the morality conventional, and the prose unaffected. Elyot s writing contrasts with that of his friend Thomas More, who voices truly revolutionary opinions in his Utopia. More was beheaded. Elyot was not. John Watkins doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723291 ...

..., and the prose unaffected. Elyot s writing contrasts with that of his friend Thomas More, who voices truly revolutionary opinions in his Utopia. More was beheaded. Elyot was not. John Watkins doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723291 ...

... with a librarian in Poland (“Suddenly into the café burst the university librarian”) accusing him of perpetrating a scholarly hoax. 1 The librarian has read an advance copy of “Leonard Coxe and Thomas More: The Implications of their Friendship for the Copernican Revolution,” a lecture that Richmond...

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...,andunsmiling.Theytendtobe The great modern Stoics, of whom Thomas More and Pieter Bruegel are typical, dull. and tyrannical, self-unaware, simpleminded, euphemisms—for are these human will as “single-minded,” “thorough,” “monarchical,” and “humorless,” but future.”the describes about expectationsFisher its...

...- mission to the truth, and carried penitential faggots in the procession afterwards. But this activity was mere prelude to the burning of “heretics” themselves. After COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON Thomas More became chancellor, in October 1529, many died at the stake...

..., the Pope did not hesitate to affirm, 9. We Remember, II. 10. Rabbi Raymond Apple, “A Remembrance and Reflection on the Holocaust (Shoah Sydney, July 29, 1999, St. Thomas More Society...

.... Much more is the sense deceived concerning accidental sensible objects; as when it judges that vinegar is honey because the color is similar .” Aquinas, Summa Theologica , Q. 85, Art. 6, quoted in Pegis, Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas , 1:825 ; my emphasis. 75. Donne, “Sermon...

... Dickinson’s reclusion, the riveting central counterevent of her life, is so obtrusive as to block even itself from view. Her reclusion verges on occlusion, both with regard to its causes in her life and, more problematically, to its mean- ing in Dickinson’s work. Early accounts assume some romantic crash...