Briti ja Ameerika kirjandus
humanist.
* He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and was Lord Chancellor from
October 1529 to 16 May 1532
* He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935
* He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of Martin
Luther and William Tyndale.
´´Utopia´´
* "Utopia" a name he gave to the ideal and imaginary island nation, the political system
of which he described in Utopia, published in 1516.
* Written in Latvin
* In it a traveller, Raphael Hythlodeaus describes the political arrangements of the
imaginary island country of Utopia to himself and to Pieter Gillis. This novel describes
the city of Amaurote by saying, "Of them all this is the worthiest and of most dignity".
* Utopia contrasts the contentious social life of European states with the perfectly
orderly, reasonable social arrangements of Utopia and its environs (Tallstoria, Nolandia,
and Aircastle)
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