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The English Utopias I. Early Modern Fantasies. The Birth of English Utopia: Thomas More. Dates. 1478 : birth of Thomas More 1516 : Utopia first published 1517 : entering King’s service 1529 : Lord Chancellor 1532 : Confutation of Tyndale's Answer 1534 : refusal to take the oath - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The English Utopias I.Early Modern Fantasies
The Birth of English Utopia: Thomas More
Dates1475: first book in English1509-1547: rule of Henry VIII1526: first printed English
Bible (Worms, Germany) – by W. Tyndale
1533-1540: separation from Rome
1547-1553: rule of Edward VI1553-1558: Mary I (Bloody
Mary)
1478: birth of Thomas More1516: Utopia first published1517: entering King’s service1529: Lord Chancellor1532: Confutation of
Tyndale's Answer1534: refusal to take the
oath1535: trial and execution
EditionsThe first five editions of More’s Utopia came out in Louvain, Paris, Basel and Florence from 1516 to 1519; there was no printing of the Latin original in England until 1663 and Scotland until 1750; of More’s Latin writings, only his Epistola ad Brixium in 1520 and his Responsio ad Lutherum in 1523 (twice) issued from an English press.
Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp eds. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol. III. 1400-1557 (Cambridge: CUP, 1999), 290.
Editions/Translations
Balázs Mihály, „Thomas Morus és Jacobus Palaeologus,” in Boros Gábor szerk., Reneszánsz Filozófia (Budapest: NMFT, Tudástársadalom Alapítvány, 2009), 113-134. (NMFT Közlemények 4., Világosság-könyvek 4.)
1516 Louvain1517 Paris1518 Basel
1524 Basel, German translation (only Book II)
1548 Venice, Italian translation (Italy-criticism)
1551 Paris, French translation1559 Lyon, French translation1585 Paris, French translation of Book II only
BM: Suppressing of poliphony;
no place for a religion based on reason
Title Page – Louvain edition
Utopian Alphabet
Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598)
Hierarchy
governor [princeps]chief magistrate, elected by the phylarchs
tranibor(1/15 phylarchs)
Phylarch/syphogrants(200 - 1/30 household)
household[familia]