Best biography on St Thomas More?

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LausTibiChriste

August 10, 2016, 10:23:49 PM
Was at the bookstore today. They had like 9 different bio's on St Thomas More. I didn't want to just pick up a random one and find it infested with modernist nonsense, so if anyone has any recommendations let me know if you'd be so kind
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Kaesekopf

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August 10, 2016, 10:47:43 PM
Buy all of them.

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Bernadette

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August 10, 2016, 10:58:16 PM
I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385496931/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1470891372&sr=8-13&keywords=Thomas+More%2C+biography years ago. It was thorough, and good. The author also wrote an excellent biography of Dickens (which I own and love). :)
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LausTibiChriste

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August 10, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 10, 2016, 10:58:16 PM
I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385496931/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1470891372&sr=8-13&keywords=Thomas+More%2C+biography years ago. It was thorough, and good. The author also wrote an excellent biography of Dickens (which I own and love). :)

I borrowed that one from the library a few weeks ago. It bothered me because every fifth sentence was a quote in Olde English and made it hard to read I found. Maybe I should give it another go. I have his books on London and the Thames and they're fantastic.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Have Mercy On Me A Sinner

"Nobody is under any moral obligation of duty or loyalty to a state run by sexual perverts who are trying to destroy public morals."
- MaximGun

"Not trusting your government doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist, it means you're a history buff"

Communism is as American as Apple Pie

LausTibiChriste

#4
August 10, 2016, 11:04:59 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 10, 2016, 10:47:43 PM
Buy all of them.

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Have Mercy On Me A Sinner

"Nobody is under any moral obligation of duty or loyalty to a state run by sexual perverts who are trying to destroy public morals."
- MaximGun

"Not trusting your government doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist, it means you're a history buff"

Communism is as American as Apple Pie

Bernadette

#5
August 10, 2016, 11:05:30 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on August 10, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 10, 2016, 10:58:16 PM
I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385496931/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1470891372&sr=8-13&keywords=Thomas+More%2C+biography years ago. It was thorough, and good. The author also wrote an excellent biography of Dickens (which I own and love). :)

I borrowed that one from the library a few weeks ago. It bothered me because every fifth sentence was a quote in Olde English and made it hard to read I found. Maybe I should give it another go. I have his books on London and the Thames and they're fantastic.

I had to read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in that weird Middle English, and More's Utopia with all of that weird spelling. Nothing fazes me now.  :o And now I want to go find it in my local library.  ;D
My Lord and my God.

MilesChristi

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August 10, 2016, 11:16:42 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on August 10, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 10, 2016, 10:58:16 PM
I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385496931/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1470891372&sr=8-13&keywords=Thomas+More%2C+biography years ago. It was thorough, and good. The author also wrote an excellent biography of Dickens (which I own and love). :)

I borrowed that one from the library a few weeks ago. It bothered me because every fifth sentence was a quote in Olde English and made it hard to read I found. Maybe I should give it another go. I have his books on London and the Thames and they're fantastic.

Middle English:

man com & se how schal alle ded li: wen yolk comes bad & bare
moth have ben ve awa? fare: All ?s werm?s yt ve for care:—
bot yt ve do for god ?s luf ve haue nothyng yare:
yis graue l?s John ye sm?th god yif his soule hewn grit

Old English:

Hwæt! We Gar-Dena   in gear-dagum

þeod-cyninga,   þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas   ellen fremedon!

Oft Scyld Scefing   sceaþena þreatum

monegum mægþum   meodo-setla ofteah;

egsode eorl[as]   syððan ærest wearð

feasceaft funden;   he þæs frofre gebad,

weox under wolcnum,   weorð-myndum þah,

oðæt him æghwylc   þara ymb-sittendra

ofer hron-rade   hyran scolde,

gomban gyldan.   Þæt wæs god cyning!
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

LausTibiChriste

#7
August 10, 2016, 11:18:39 PM
Ok wasnt that whack but it still was enough for me to take it back, considering the pile of books I have lined up to read.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Have Mercy On Me A Sinner

"Nobody is under any moral obligation of duty or loyalty to a state run by sexual perverts who are trying to destroy public morals."
- MaximGun

"Not trusting your government doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist, it means you're a history buff"

Communism is as American as Apple Pie

Non Nobis

#8
August 11, 2016, 12:50:43 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 10, 2016, 10:58:16 PM
I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385496931/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1470891372&sr=8-13&keywords=Thomas+More%2C+biography years ago. It was thorough, and good. The author also wrote an excellent biography of Dickens (which I own and love). :)

Amazon had this listed at 99 cents for Kindle; but when I clicked on the link it took me to Utopia instead (the book Thomas More wrote; Utopia means "no place" so I guess the link took me "no place")

I think I need to go to bed.
[Matthew 8:26]  And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there came a great calm.

[Job  38:1-5]  Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said: [2] Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words? [3] Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me. [4] Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. [5] Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Jesus, Mary, I love Thee! Save souls!

Bernadette

#9
August 11, 2016, 09:01:16 AM
Quote from: Non Nobis on August 11, 2016, 12:50:43 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 10, 2016, 10:58:16 PM
I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385496931/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1470891372&sr=8-13&keywords=Thomas+More%2C+biography years ago. It was thorough, and good. The author also wrote an excellent biography of Dickens (which I own and love). :)

Amazon had this listed at 99 cents for Kindle; but when I clicked on the link it took me to Utopia instead (the book Thomas More wrote; Utopia means "no place" so I guess the link took me "no place")

I think I need to go to bed.

I hate it when Amazon does stuff like this. :(
My Lord and my God.

Lynne

#10
August 11, 2016, 10:17:26 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 11, 2016, 09:01:16 AM
Quote from: Non Nobis on August 11, 2016, 12:50:43 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on August 10, 2016, 10:58:16 PM
I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385496931/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1470891372&sr=8-13&keywords=Thomas+More%2C+biography years ago. It was thorough, and good. The author also wrote an excellent biography of Dickens (which I own and love). :)

Amazon had this listed at 99 cents for Kindle; but when I clicked on the link it took me to Utopia instead (the book Thomas More wrote; Utopia means "no place" so I guess the link took me "no place")

I think I need to go to bed.

I hate it when Amazon does stuff like this. :(

I found the Kindle version for... $12.99!!!  :o

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Thomas-More-Peter-Ackroyd-ebook/dp/B0089EHJEO/ref=sr_1_5

In conclusion, I can leave you with no better advice than that given after every sermon by Msgr Vincent Giammarino, who was pastor of St Michael's Church in Atlantic City in the 1950s:

    "My dear good people: Do what you have to do, When you're supposed to do it, The best way you can do it,   For the Love of God. Amen"

Bernadette

#11
August 11, 2016, 10:28:16 AM
Yikes, I'd have to go with the Audible version. Half the price. ;)

Edit: Never mind. That link goes to Utopia, too. :(
My Lord and my God.
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