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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rare Book Room Exhibition Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ST. THOMAS MORE and statesman, he was a person of tremendous faith who was a devout COLLECTION AT THE member of the Roman Catholic BOSTON COLLEGE LAW Church. His love for the law and his LIBRARY religious nature were deeply intertwined. More biographer Peter The More Collection was purchased by Ackroyd wrote that “[More] knew that the Boston College Law School in 1961 human justice was only the faintest from the estate of Arthur Brown. It reflection of divine law, but it became contains approximately 100 titles for him the principle and model of focused on the life and work of Sir conduct upon the earth.” Thomas More, patron saint of lawyers and ardent defender of the Catholic More worked as a lawyer and in Church. It includes several very special various administrative positions in editions of More’s landmark work, London after finishing his studies. In UTOPIA, including a beautifully 1517, he became a councillor attendant illustrated 1518 edition and an 1893 to King Henry VIII. His proximity to edition published by William Morris’ the king allowed More to become a famed Kelmscott Press. figure of much authority and power. It was when Henry gave him the This exhibition features lucrative position of Undertreasurer in selections from the More Collection 1520 that he was knighted, thus arranged by themes. It begins in the becoming . horizontal wooden case to the left of the entrance door and continues In 1529, Henry VIII appointed clockwise around the room. The More Lord Chancellor, a position exhibit was curated by Laurel Davis, second in power only to the king. At BC Law class of 2006, with assistance this point, Henry was attempting to from Karen Beck, Curator of Rare annul his marriage to Catherine of Books. Much of the text was drawn Aragon, the Spanish princess to whom from Peter Ackroyd’s THE LIFE OF he had been married almost 20 years. THOMAS MORE (1998). It will remain It was around this time that Henry on view through mid-December 2007. began to embrace the Protestant teaching that the Pope was only the    Bishop of Rome, and therefore had no authority over the Christian Church as A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF a whole. More had been completely devoted to his king, but as Henry ST. THOMAS MORE began to deny the Pope’s authority, More’s qualms grew until he Thomas More was born in London, eventually resigned as Lord Chancellor probably on February 7, 1478, to John in 1532. In 1534, More refused to swear and Agnes More. John More was a an oath he construed as denying the judge and likely influenced his son’s Pope’s authority. For this, he was decision to become a lawyer. Thomas imprisoned in the . More never took vows and thus Following his imprisonment, he was remained a layman his entire life, but tried and convicted under the Treason in addition to being a respected lawyer Act for refusing to swear a different published for the first time in 1831. oath that deemed Henry VIII the The project grew out of Mackintosh’s supreme head of the Church. He was research into Henry VIII’s reign. executed by beheading on July 6, 1535. This copy features an attractive vellum cover embellished with gold In 1886, Sir Thomas More was scrollwork. beatified by Pope Leo XIII – the first English layman to be beatified as a ELIZABETH M. INCE, ST. THOMAS MORE martyr. In 1935, he was canonized OF LONDON Saint Thomas More by Pope Pius XI Illustrated by Lili Réthi. New York: after a mass petition by English Vision Books, 1957 Catholics. Ince, a descendent of More’s daughter and son-in-law Margaret and First wooden case to left of entrance: , wrote this biography of More for children. According to her, BIOGRAPHIES OF More used to warn his children that ST. THOMAS MORE they would “never get to heaven on feather beds!” WILLIAM ROPER, LIFE AND DEATH OF SIR THOMAS MOORE, KT. RICHARD MARIUS, THOMAS MORE: A London: Printed for C. Davis, 1626 BIOGRAPHY William Roper was More’s son- New York: Knopf, 1984 in-law and his earliest biographer. He This widely praised book was a was also a wealthy and successful finalist for the National Book Award. lawyer in his own right. Married to Marius’ depiction of More – not as a More’s beloved eldest daughter, saintly figure but as a flawed human Margaret, Roper spent a great deal of being – caused a good deal of time with More, living with Margaret controversy. Marius assessed More’s in the family home for more than life and legacy from a modern sixteen years. This biography was perspective, criticizing what he saw as written around 1555 but first published More’s religious fanaticism and in 1626. intolerance toward Protestants. The book is opened to the title page and an engraving of More. Note REV. MICHAEL J. LARKIN, SAINT the wormholes on the paper. Behind THOMAS MORE: MODEL FOR LAWYERS the title page you can see part of a AND LAYMEN large fold-out table showing the New York: Paulist Press, 1937 genealogy of the Roper family. According to the author, this little purple pamphlet was intended to JAMES MACKINTOSH, THE LIFE OF SIR “bring to the public in a small way an THOMAS MORE epitome of the life of the recently London: Longman, Brown, Green and canonized saint, Thomas More; one of Longmans, 1844 the most fascinating characters in Mackintosh was a nineteenth- history.” century Scottish historian, critic, and politician. He wrote this biography shortly before his death in 1832; it was

2 ERNEST EDWIN REYNOLDS, MARGARET After close to 20 years of ROPER marriage, Henry began to claim that London: Burns & Oates, 1960 Catherine’s marriage to his brother This is a biography of More’s had indeed been consummated. If this oldest daughter, Margaret. More made was true, it would mean that his own no distinctions in the way he educated marriage violated the dictates of his daughters and his son; Margaret Leviticus, which forbade one from was a fine classical scholar who sleeping with his brother’s wife. It is translated one of ’ works into unclear how much of Henry’s English. She remained her father’s motivation stemmed from a true closest confidante throughout his life religious conviction that his marriage and was the last person to visit him in was invalid and how much arose from prison before his execution. his newfound interest in .

STANLEY MORISON, THE LIKENESS OF Regardless, Henry began to THOMAS MORE explore, through his then Lord New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1964 Chancellor , whether This book collects and analyzes the Pope would annul his marriage to the many images of More that have Catherine based on the dictates of been created over the years. It is Leviticus. As More’s biographer Peter opened to two portraits of More and Ackroyd notes, the central question his family, both painted in the early became one of the extent of papal 1590s by Rowland Locky after Hans power, and, in particular, of the ability Holbein. In the top portrait, More sits of the Pope to waive the injunction of at the center with his dog at his feet. Leviticus. As it became increasingly His wife sits with her pet monkey at clear that the annulment would not be the far right, and his daughter granted, Henry began to assert that Margaret sits to the left of her mother, divine law had made his marriage holding an open book. abhorrent to God and that no pope had the authority to abrogate that law. Wooden case to right of entrance: Henry appointed More to MORE’S DISPUTE WITH replace Wolsey as Lord Chancellor in KING HENRY VIII 1529. At first devoted to Henry and his assertions of royal prerogative, More The disagreement that ultimately led became uneasy when Henry began to to More’s execution began with King deny the authority of the Pope. More Henry VIII’s desire to divorce his wife, eventually incurred Henry’s wrath for Catherine of Aragon. Catherine had refusing to acknowledge the king as been married to Henry’s brother, but the head of the , upon his death she claimed (and and for objecting to moves by Henry continually maintained) that the and Parliament to weaken papal marriage had been unconsummated. authority. More was put on trial for Because of this, a papal dispensation treason in 1535. was granted allowing Henry to marry her, and the political alliance between Spain and England was sustained.

3 A.F. POLLARD, HENRY VIII ELIZABETH ROGERS, ED., ST. THOMAS Paris, London, New York: Goupil & MORE: SELECTED LETTERS Co., 1902 New Haven and London: Yale This magnificently illustrated University Press, 1961 biography of King Henry VIII is This volume is opened to opened to a copy of Henry’s portrait More’s final letter, written to his that is part of the Royal Collection at favorite daughter , Windsor Castle. which he wrote on July 5, 1535, one day before his death. More asked his MORE’S TRIAL AND EXECUTION daughter to be kind to various family members and servants, including The trial of Sir Thomas More is one of several maids which More had the most celebrated in English history. educated in the same manner as he It was held in Westminster Hall before had his own children. He asked for a jury of twelve men. More represented their prayers and promised to pray for himself against charges of treason for them in return. refusing to take an oath declaring Henry VIII to be the supreme head of ERNEST EDWIN REYNOLDS, THE TRIAL OF the Church. He argued that if a ST. THOMAS MORE parliamentary statute, such as one that New York: P.J. Kenedy, 1964 demanded the oath, offends against The book is opened to an the law of God, then it is insufficient, illustration of St. Peter ad Vincula, and cannot be imposed upon any where More’s body was buried. Christian subject. At his trial, he affirmed the primacy of the rule of law DANIEL SARGENT, “THE TRIAL OF SAINT itself; he did not believe that the THOMAS MORE,” 21 CATHOLIC English Parliament could repeal a HISTORICAL REVIEW 1 (APRIL, 1936) thousand years’ worth of ordinances to make Henry the head of the Church. THOMAS ROWLANDSON, MICROCOSM OF LONDON: WESTMINSTER HALL The court disagreed with him. London: R. Ackermann, 1808-1811? Furthermore, it found a presumption This is an engraving of of malice in More’s refusal to swear Westminster Hall, the site of More’s the oath of the king’s supremacy, and trial, as it appeared nearly 300 years thus he was convicted as a traitor and later in the early nineteenth century. It sentenced to death. He spent his last is part of a set of engravings called the six days in the Tower of London and “Microcosm of London,” by the noted then was executed by beheading on artist Thomas Rowlandson. The July 6, 1535. His body was taken to the engravings in this set illustrate various church of St. Peter ad Vincula within courtrooms and government buildings the Tower, where, in the presence of in early nineteenth-century England. some of his family, it was interred. Gift of Daniel R. Coquillette.

4 First wall cabinet (labeled Cabinet THOMAS MORE, DE OPTIMO REIP. II): STATU, DEQUE NOUA INSULA UTOPIA … Basel: 1518 UTOPIA This beautiful book is a very early edition of UTOPIA: the second In 1515, More wrote his most famous printing of the third edition. It features work, UTOPIA, a novel in which the many engravings, including those fictional traveler Raphael Hythloday shown here on the title page, which are describes the political arrangements of taken from designs by Hans Holbein. the imaginary island nation of Utopia. Annotations by an early owner are Hythloday is Greek for “peddler of sprinkled throughout the book and on nonsense,” indicating that perhaps the title page. readers should not take the work completely seriously. The word THOMAS MORE, A MOST PLEASANT, “Utopia” was invented by More (or FRUITFUL, AND WITTY WORK OF THE possibly by his friend Erasmus) and is BEST STATE OF A PUBLIC WEAL, AND OF a play on the Greek “ou-topos,” THE NEW ISLE CALLED UTOPIA … meaning “no place” and “eu-topos,” London: Printed by Wm. Bulmer for meaning “good place.” In More’s Wm. Miller, 1808 fictional nation, private property does This famous edition of Utopia not exist and religious tolerance is contains a biographical and literary practiced. introduction by T.F. Dibdin. This copy features striking engravings in a There are significant modest binding; note the untrimmed divergences in the literary criticism of pages. It is opened to the title page and UTOPIA, as it is difficult to tell which a portrait of More. parts of the novel are satirical and which parts More actually would have Top Shelf: considered an ideal society. Some PAINTING OF SIR THOMAS MORE have argued, based on his later This painting dates from the intolerance for Reformation “heretics,” 1700s. Despite the time that had that More never would have believed elapsed since More’s death, it is quite that the type of religious tolerance historically accurate because the described by Hythloday was an ideal to painter used More’s death mask as a strive towards. Furthermore, More’s reference. Although most images do biographer Peter Ackroyd notes that not show it, More was slightly cross- More would have considered many eyed, as you can see in this painting. other traits of the Utopians dreadful: Gift of John Hanify, BC Law the citizens of Utopia encourage class of 1974. euthanasia, condone divorce, and deny the truths of divine law.

The Boston College Law Library’s More Collection features many editions of this famous work. A few of our choicest selections are on display in these cases.

5 Second wall cabinet (labeled Cabinet and containing a foreword by him, it is III): bound in vellum and retains most of its fabric ties. It is opened to one of UTOPIA: FINE PRESS EDITIONS many pages which feature two-color printing and a striking engraving in In late nineteenth- and early twentieth- Morris’ characteristic style. century England, the art of the book enjoyed a renaissance. In response to THOMAS MORE, A FRUTEFUL AND burgeoning industrialization and mass PLEASAUNT WORKE OF THE BESTE STATE production, artists and artisans OF A PUBLIQUE WEALE, AND OF THE founded the Arts and Crafts movement NEWE YLE CALLED UTOPIA … and created handmade works of Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1906 beautiful quality and design. Artists, Issued in an edition of only 100 bookmakers, papermakers, printers, copies, this book was printed on thick illustrators and authors came together cotton paper with its edges deliberately at several small presses, where they left untrimmed. It is opened to a page produced small print runs of that shows red and black printing and beautifully designed books. beautiful typography. The Law Library is fortunate to own four examples of UTOPIA that THOMAS MORE, A FRUTEFULL were published by fine art presses PLEASAUNT, AND WITTIE WORKE OF THE during this golden age of bookmaking. BESTE STATE OF PUBLIQUE WEALE, & OF THE NEWE YLE, CALLED UTOPIA … THOMAS MORE, MORE’S MILLENNIUM; Berkshire, Golden Cockerel Pr., 1929 BEING THE UTOPIA OF SIR THOMAS This magnificent book, MORE … numbered 144 of only 500 copies, was London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1909 printed by Robert Gibbings at the The Book of Revelation famous Golden Cockerel Press. The describes an important interval lasting illustrations are by the noted illustrator 1,000 years when Christ rules on earth Eric Gill. The title page is printed in after the events of the last days have the unusual two-color combination of brought an end to this world. This is a deep blue and black. golden era, a time of universal peace. Hence, as a general religious term, the Cabinet IV: word “millennium” indicates a sort of utopian state. UTOPIA: BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS This copy is bound in an attractively illustrated cover and spine, THOMAS MORE, UTOPIA in the art nouveau style of the period. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, & New York: E.P. Dutton, 1935 THOMAS MORE, UTOPIA This book is opened to an Hammersmith: William Morris at the engraving of the main characters in Kelmscott Press, 1893 UTOPIA, including Raphael Hythloday This copy of UTOPIA is a and Sir Thomas More himself. Notice magnificent example of the art of the the striking arrangement of type, book. Printed by the artist William centered in a “V” on the page. Morris at his famed Kelmscott Press,

6 THOMAS MORE, UTOPIA other sins and crimes “of sloth there is New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934 no man ashamed, but we take it as for Like the book in the previous a laughing matter and a sport.” case, this too was printed in a limited edition: number 534 of 1,500 copies. It Cabinet V: features an introduction by none other than H.G. Wells. OTHER WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS On view here, preceding Book MORE: GRAPPLING WITH LUTHER Two, is an engraving of the island of AND THE PROTESTANTS Utopia. Raphael Hythloday stands at the lower left corner of the picture. THOMAS MORE, RESPONSIO AD Very similar to the other book on this LUTHERUM shelf, this copy features beautiful New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1969 typography and two-color printing in After Protestant reformer black and an odd burnt orange hue. Martin Luther vitriolically responded

to Henry VIII’s Defense of the Seven Bottom shelf: Sacraments (to which More likely

contributed), More counterattacked on OTHER WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS the King’s behalf with this “Reply to MORE: THE FOUR LAST THINGS Luther” in 1523. These exchanges between More In 1522, More wrote an unfinished and Luther illuminate some of their meditation on the seven deadly sins, in major differences—the ritualistic More which he advises his daughter who valued the inherited traditions Margaret to meditate on Death, and beliefs of the Church and the Judgment, Pain and Joy as medicinal individualistic Luther who saw faith as herbs in the battle against the spiritual an intensely personal experience. sicknesses of pride, covetousness, It was in writing this piece that anger, gluttony, envy, sloth and lust. More determined that the papacy was More wrote brief essays on the seven indeed divine in origin and not simply deadly sins, but abandoned the work a political order invented by men. This before finishing “sloth” and “lust.” determination would affect him deeply in the political conflicts to come. THOMAS MORE, THE FOUR LAST THINGS The book is opened to a portrait London: Art & Book Company, 1903 of Martin Luther. This attractive little book is opened to the title page, which features THOMAS MORE, THE CONFUTATION OF a lovely typographical ornament. TYNDALE’S ANSWER Standing opposite is a portrait of More. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1973 THOMAS MORE, THE FOUR LAST THINGS This massive work, the longest London: Burns, Oates, and religious polemic in the English Washbourne, Ltd., 1935. language, was More’s 1531 counter- This copy is opened to the first response to Protestant reformer page of the final (unfinished) essay in William Tyndale. Tyndale had earlier the book, “Sloth.” More observes that written a response to More’s DIALOGUE sloth is quite common, and that unlike CONCERNING .

7 More biographer Peter Ackroyd HENRY SEBASTIAN BOWDEN, ED., writes that “the confrontation between CRUMBS OF COMFORT: FROM THE Tyndale and More embodies the DIALOGUE OF COMFORT UNDER struggle between the opposing TRIBULATION BY BLESSED THOMAS tendencies of the period—inner prayer MORE and belief against communal worship London: Burns & Oates, 1915 and ritual, faith against works, the Here the editor, Henry direct inspiration of scripture against Bowden, presented a selection of inherited orthodoxy, redemption extracts from More’s work, intending through Christ rather than the to “obtain a wider circulation under a sacramental system . . . . More had handier form” than the original. reached such a pitch of nervous Bowden’s title was inspired by this intensity that he could not rest from Biblical verse from Matthew xv, 27: the fight; his whole life and duty lay “The whelps also eat of the crumbs now in his battle to protect the which fall from the master’s table.” Church.” W.E. CAMPBELL, ED., LAST LETTERS OF Bottom shelf: BLESSED THOMAS MORE St. Louis: B. Herder, 1924 OTHER WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS This is a compilation of the MORE: HIS FINAL WORKS letters Thomas More wrote to his daughter Margaret, King Henry VIII, THOMAS MORE, DIALOGUE OF COMFORT Chief Minister and AGAINST TRIBULATION others in 1534-1535, the two years London & N.Y.: Sheed & Ward, 1951 before his execution. More used the More wrote the DIALOGUE in word "conscience" more than 100 1534 during his imprisonment in the times in his final correspondence. He Tower of London, before he was felt strongly that the human convicted and executed as a traitor to conscience was of divine origin—a King Henry VIII. The grave sentence mirror that reflected the will of God. came as a result of More’s refusal to Even the pleas of his beloved daughter swear an oath recognizing Henry as in her letters to her father could not the supreme head of the Church. persuade him to ignore his conscience Set in Hungary, the DIALOGUE and take the royal oath that would have tells the story of two men, one young saved his life. and one old, who discuss matters of The book is opened to the now- faith such as how to pray, what to give familiar portrait by Hans Holbein, and to beggars, and how to counsel a friend to a sample of More’s handwriting and who believes he should commit autograph. suicide. More wrote this work to comfort himself about what lay ahead, and to comfort others in similar situations as well.

8 Cabinet VI (across the room): New York: W. Black, 1942 This book was copiously illustrated by THE ERASMUS CONNECTION: Rotterdam artist Hendrik van Loon. IN PRAISE OF FOLLY COAT OF ARMS OF SIR THOMAS MORE, IN PRAISE OF FOLLY was Dutch scholar LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, and humanist Desiderius Erasmus’ DRAWN BY JOHN R. SUTHERLAND, most famous work. A close friend of EDINBURGH Thomas More, Erasmus wrote the These arms were probably work while staying at More’s home in granted to Thomas’ father Sir John London. Though both men were More during the reign of King Edward devout Roman Catholics and critics of IV. This coat of arms is an example of Martin Luther, IN PRAISE OF FOLLY “canting arms,” or a coat that includes a satirical look at embodies a pun on the name of the superstitious abuses of Catholic bearer. Here, among other designs, are doctrine and corrupt practices in parts six Moorcocks, and the shield is topped of the . by a Moor’s head – all of which were The title, which in Latin is meant to be puns of the name “More.” “Moriae Encomium,” can also be Surrounding the shield is the golden interpreted as “In Praise of More.” collar of a Lord Chancellor of England. Indeed, Erasmus intended the book to be a tribute to his dear friend. Cabinet VII:

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, L’ELOGE DE LA WORKS INSPIRED BY MORE’S LIFE: FOLIE NOVELS, POEMS AND PLAYS Amsterdam: Francoise l’Honore, 1728 This beautifully bound copy is These three novels are works of opened to two engravings which historical fiction; that is, they use the precede the title page. One shows three facts of More’s life as a jumping-off miniature portraits of Erasmus, More point to explore episodes in his life and the artist Hans Holbein. The other that are wholly or partially fictional. is a visual representation of Folly and the seven deadly sins. The book is CHARLES BRADY, STAGE OF FOOLS replete with magnificent engravings by New York: Dutton, 1953 Holbein and features two-color This novel explores More’s printing on the title page. dispute with King Henry VIII.

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, IN PRAISE OF NOEL MACDONALD WILBY, A MERRY FOLLY ETERNITY: A ROMANCE OF SIR THOMAS London: Reeves & Turner, 1876 MORE’S HOUSEHOLD Though rather unattractive New York, etc.: Benziger Bros., 1932 overall, this book contains delightful engravings by Holbein and a portrait JOHN E. BEAHN, A MAN BORN AGAIN of Erasmus opposite the title page. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1954 This historical novel focuses on DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, THE PRAISE OF More’s sainthood. FOLLY

9 CAROL WIGHT, SIR THOMAS MORE AND Cabinet VIII: OTHER VERSE Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1925 WORKS INSPIRED BY MORE’S LIFE: The first piece in this book is a THE HOUSEHOLD OF short play entitled “Sir Thomas More: SIR THOMAS MORE A Tragedy.” It is followed by 25 brief poems on a variety of subjects. The Anne Manning wrote this work in the book is autographed by the author. literary form of a faux diary. First

published in 1860, it purports to be a MOVIE: record of the experiences and Columbia Pictures, 1966 observances of More’s favorite Winner of six Academy daughter, Margaret Roper. Awards, including Best Picture of

1966, this movie explores More’s ANNE MANNING, THE HOUSEHOLD OF battle with Henry VIII. It features Paul SIR THOMAS MORE Scofield, who won a Best Actor Oscar London: John C. Nimmo, & New York: for his portrayal of More. The movie C. Scribner, 1896 was based upon an award-winning play The law library is fortunate to by , which was first own two nearly identical editions of performed in London in 1960. Both this work. One features a beautifully the movie and the play depict Sir illustrated cover typical of late Thomas More as a saintly individual, nineteenth-century book design. The the ultimate man of conscience, and building on the cover is More’s home. have been criticized by some for Inside are 25 illustrations by John neglecting to mention More’s Jellicoe and Herbert Railton. treatment of Lutherans during his The second copy is opened to reign as Lord Chancellor. Jellicoe’s illustration of “Erasmus and

the peacocks.” FRANCIS BLACKWELL, BLESSED THOMAS

MORE : A PLAY ANNE MANNING, THE HOUSEHOLD OF London: Burns Oates & Washbourne SIR THOMAS MORE Ltd., 1931. London: J.M. Dent, & New York: E.P. Written by a Benedictine monk, Dutton, 1906 this little 36-page play focuses on This copy contains 24 glorious More’s dispute with King Henry, and color illustrations by C.E. Brock. It is his subsequent execution. It ends with opened to the title page and an a twist: after More has been executed, a illustration of King Henry kissing remorseful Henry turns to his wife More’s wife Alice – presumably with Anne Boleyn and exclaims: “Woman, Margaret watching suspiciously in the this is thy deed! I’m damn’d; and – background. The caption reads: “His doubly – you!” The curtain falls with grace … at going saluted all round, Anne’s portentous words: “In that which Mother took delightedlie.” dread visage [Henry’s] I behold my doom!” Top shelf:

PORTRAIT OF ST. THOMAS MORE

Gift of Sharon Hamby O’Connor.

10 Cabinet IX: implications. Its cover and title page feature images of More, and the inside SAINT THOMAS MORE TODAY back cover contains a picture and explanation of More’s coat of arms, Though he lived centuries ago, seen elsewhere in this exhibit. Thomas More’s legacy continues in the realms of law, literature, religion and THE ST. THOMAS MORE SOCIETY AT THE more. Scholars continue to study his BC LAW SCHOOL life and work, as is evident from the The Society’s goals include applying sampling of materials in this case. Catholic values as law students and as lawyers, promoting understanding of MOREANA the Catholic faith, and serving the Angers, France: Association Amici community. Many law schools Thomae Mori, 1963- throughout the country have chapters. This is an international Membership is open to anyone bilingual (French and English) review. interested in the Society’s mission. It was founded in France in 1963 by Visit http://www.bc.edu/schools Father Germain Marc’Hadour and is /law/services/studentorgs/tms.html read today in nearly 40 countries. Its for more information. main object is to make known the work and deeds of Saint Thomas More. Three issues are on display here from 1978 and 1980. R.W. GIBSON, ST. THOMAS MORE: A PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WORKS AND OF MOREANA TO THE YEAR 1750 New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1961 This thick book of nearly 500 pages conveys some idea of the immense popularity of More, his writings, and the study of his life and thought. The bibliography includes a careful compilation of all known early editions of UTOPIA. It is opened to the title page, where various examples of More’s signature can be seen on the page opposite.

CATHOLIC LAWYER Brooklyn, N.Y.: St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research of St. John’s University School of Law, 1955- This law journal publishes articles about legal problems having ethical, canonical, or theological

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