SIR THOMAS MORE

THE BACKGROUND & HISTORY

• Thomas was born February 7, 1478, and died July 6th 1535
• Was the son of a successful lawyer, studied at Oxford

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Built a reputation as a scholar and wrote the history of Richard
• Best known work, utopia, which was an story of an imaginary republic
• Ruled by reason intended to contrast the way contemporary European
• Politics ran
• He was a devout catholic and his advisory to the king when throughout

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CONT.

• The catholic reformation got him accused of treason and executed

IMPACTS

• He become known as the father or utopian literature
• Also gave way to the sub-genre anti-utopian literature

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