Thomas More

Utopia Illustrated Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 - 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, [7][8] was an English lawyer, judge, [9] social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532.[10] He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, [11] which describes the political system of an imaginary island sta