More's History of King Richard III: Bilingual Writing and Renovation of Historiography

Moreana ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (Number 213) (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Guillaume Navaud
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bilingual Writing ◽  
As If

Why did Thomas More write two versions of his History of King Richard III, one in English and the other in Latin? Critics tend to answer this question by arguing that the two versions were not destined for the same audience: the Latin for a continental elite, the vernacular for a larger British readership. Although perfectly convincing, this explanation may not be the only one: this paper tries to underline the existence of another motivation, one of a literary nature. The History of King Richard III indeed combines two historiographical models: the ancient and classical monograph as illustrated by Sallust, and the medieval tradition of the chronicle. The oscillation between English and Latin may reflect More's wish to renovate the genre of the medieval chronicle, accomplished by an hybridization with classical Latin models—as if More attempted to grasp the best of both traditions in order to initiate a new means of writing history.

The Lion and the Fox: an Unholy Animal Kingdom

Moreana ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (Number 189- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 54-70
Author(s):  
Stelio Cro
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Animal Kingdom ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Negative View ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Detailed List

This article compares the History of Richard III (1512) of Thomas More and The Prince (1513) of Niccolò Machiavelli. More attributes to Richard III a detailed list of moral vices that leaves no doubt as to his very negative view of Richard. On the other hand, in The Prince, Machiavelli deals with contemporary events without moral or religious preoccupations. In essence, for More history is “magistra vitae”, as long as the Christian values are conveyed by the historian, whereas for Machiavelli history’s lesson is valid regardless of religious and/or moral issues.

scholarly journals Prudentia in More’s Utopia: The Ethics of Foresight

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-68
Author(s):  
Brendan Cook
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
History Of

L’article explore les usages du terme latin prudentia dans l’Utopie (1516) de Thomas More. Cet article explique les apparentes contradictions du traitement de More du mot prudentia, à travers l’étude des utilisations du terme dans un éventail de sources, incluant les dialogues de Cicéron, les écrits éthique de l’humaniste italien du XVe siècle Lorenzo Valla, les écrits d’étude biblique du contemporain de More, Érasme de Rotterdam, et le History of King Richard III de More. Cet article cherche également à évaluer les différentes interprétations de la prudentia dans les versions anglaises de l’Utopie, offre plusieurs options pour les futurs traducteurs.

scholarly journals THE PRESERVATION OF CROSBY HALL, c. 1830–1850

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSEMARY SWEET
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Fifteenth

ABSTRACTThis article offers a case-study of an early preservation campaign to save the remains of the fifteenth-century Crosby Hall in Bishopsgate, London, threatened with demolition in 1830, in a period before the emergence of national bodies dedicated to the preservation of historic monuments. It is an unusual and early example of a successful campaign to save a secular building. The reasons why the Hall's fate attracted the interest of antiquaries, architects, and campaigners are analysed in the context of the emergence of historical awareness of the domestic architecture of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as well as wider recognition of the importance of this period for Britain's urban and commercial development. The Hall's associations with Richard III and other historic figures, including Thomas More and Thomas Gresham, are shown to have been particularly important in generating wider public interest, thereby allowing the campaigners to articulate the importance of the Hall in national terms. The history of Crosby Hall illuminates how a discourse of national heritage emerged from the inherited tradition of eighteenth-century antiquarianism and highlights the importance of the social, professional, and familial networks that sustained proactive attempts to preserve the nation's monuments and antiquities.

The history of Richard III., attributed to Sir Thomas more

1856 ◽  
Vol s2-I (6) ◽  
pp. 105-107
Author(s):  
James Gairdner
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
History Of

Writing, High School

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard lebovitz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Over The Top ◽  
As If

While riding down the beach one day, my friend and I ran across some trails which led back into the dunes. That same night we went down the trails in a truck. Back in the dunes near the surf was a hill about 35 or 40 feet high. We drove up the trail and parked the truck. While getting out we noticed that the roar of the ocean was very loud and very clear. We went back to the truck and got a flashlight and started walking back towards the sound of the surf. My friend was carrying the flashlight and was about 10 or 12 feet to my left. As the light shone over the top of the hill, the other side seemed to disappear as if it were cut straight off. But before the thought crossed my mind, I fell—about 25 feet straight off the side of a dune! After making my landing I looked, and there, about a foot in front of me, lay the great Atlantic.—Richard Quidley Another testament to the water came in the form of a story by Terri Midgett. Its matter-of-fact voice reveals his closeness to the practice of rescuing, which has dominated the history of his family for generations. It was in the winter of ‘76. The Sound had had a layer of ice on it for at least a week. Now it was slowly beginning to melt. I went to the edge of the creek. As I walked on the ice my boots seemed to want to slip out from under me. I slowed down just enough to where I thought I wouldn’t fall, and about, that time, BAM! I’d slipped, falling hard on the ice, its wetness cold to my face. I stood up, my face numbed from the cold. Looking ahead, I saw three figures waving at me. It looked as though they needed help. I ran toward them, falling several times before reaching them. One of the boys had fallen through the ice. He was wet and cold and wanted to lie down, but I knew if he did, it would only be a matter of minutes before he’d die.

scholarly journals XIII.—On certain Salts and Products of Decomposition of Comenic Acid

1853 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Henry How
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Organic Acids ◽  
General Formula ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comenic Acid ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
As If

The study of the organic acids appears scarcely to have advanced of late years pari passu with the other branches of organic chemistry. It seems, indeed, as if the development of each of the different departments of the science had been, to a certain extent, periodical; each engrossing the labours of investigators to the temporary exclusion of the others, themselves to be renewed when some new experiments should reawaken an interest in them.However this may be, the subject of the natural and artificial bases has proved so productive of interesting results as to have recently become the chosen and almost exclusive field of inquiry, notwithstanding several investigations which have thrown much light on one class of organic acids, namely, that represented by the general formula Cn Hn O4. With the exception of this section, the history of the organic acids remains very imperfect, and in many cases we have but a meagre account of a few of their salts.

Oedipus's Riddle: Elizabethan transformation of the family portrait of Thomas More, an Appendix to “Non sum Oedipus sed Morus”

Moreana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (Number 212) (2) ◽  
pp. 133-159
Author(s):  
Frank Mitjans
Keyword(s):  
Family Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
History Of ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

Holbein produced a drawing of Sir Thomas More and his Family which was a preparatory sketch for a larger painting. The painting was acquired by Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkron (1623–95), Archbishop of Olomouc, Moravia, and was last recorded in 1691 as being kept in the episcopal residence in Olomouc; it is generally assumed that the painting was lost in the 1752 fire at the Archbishop's château in Kroměřiž. There are, however, five extant versions of the Family Group. The three main versions are the full-sized oil on canvas, The Family of Sir Thomas More (1592), now at Nostell Priory, and two paintings of Sir Thomas More, his Household, and Descendants: one kept at the National Portrait Gallery, the other at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There has been much discussion about the transformation from a family at prayer—as portrayed in the original drawing—to a conversation on Seneca. Based on editions of Oedipus prior to the Nostell painting, the history of More's descendants, and a cameo that belonged to More's family, this paper argues that the Elizabethan transformation is a story of conformity and non-conformity.

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