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This book challenges the recently established consensus that the
trial was a carefully prepared and executed judicial process in
which the judges were amenable to reasonable arguments. Thomas
More's treason trial in 1535 is one of history's most famous court
cases, yet never before have all the major documents been
collected, translated, and analyzed by a team of legal and Tudor
scholars. This edition serves asan important sourcebook and
concludes with a 'docudrama' reconstructing the course of the trial
based on these documents. Legal experts H. A. Kelly and R. H.
Helmholz take different approaches to the legalities of this trial,
and four experienced judges [including Justice of the Queen's Bench
Sir Michael Tugendhat] discuss the trial with some disagreements -
notably on the meaning and requirement of 'malice' called for in
the Parliamentary Act of Supremacy. More's own accounts of his
interrogations in prison are analyzed, and the trial's procedures
are compared to and contrasted with 16th-century concepts of
natural law and also modern judicial practices and principles. The
book is a 'must read' not only for students of law and Tudor
history but also for all concerned with justice and due process. As
a whole, the book challenges Duncan Derrett's conclusions that the
trial was conducted in accord with contemporary legal norms and
that More was convicted only on the single charge of denying
Parliament the power to declare Henry VIII Supreme Head of the
English Church [testified to by Richard Rich] - a position that has
been uniformly accepted by historians since 1964. HENRY ANSGAR
KELLY is past Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, UCLA. LOUIS W. KARLIN is an attorney with the California
Court of Appeal and Fellow of the Center for Thomas More Studies,
University of Dallas. GERARD B. WEGEMER is Director of the Center
for Thomas More Studies.
This volume is an important contribution to the field of Margaret
More Roper studies, early modern women's writing, as well as
Erasmian piety, Renaissance humanism, and historical and cultural
studies more generally. Margaret More Roper is the learned daughter
of St. Thomas More, the Catholic martyr; their lives are closely
linked to each other and to early sixteenth-century changes in
politics and religion and the social upheaval and crises of
conscience that they brought. Specifically, Roper's major works -
her translation of Erasmus's commentary on the Lord's Prayer and
the long dialogue letter between More and Roper on conscience -
highlight two major preoccupations of the period: Erasmian humanism
and More's last years, which led to his death and martyrdom. Roper
was one of the most learned women of her time and a prototype of
the woman writer in England, and this edited volume is a tribute to
her life, writings, and place among early women authors. It
combines comprehensive and convenient joining of biographical,
textual, historical, and critical components within a single volume
for the modern reader. There is no comparable study in print, and
it fills a significant gap in studies of early modern women
writers.
This book challenges the recently established consensus that the
trial was a carefully prepared and executed judicial process in
which the judges were amenable to reasonable arguments. Thomas
More's treason trial in 1535 is one of history's most famous court
cases, yet never before have all the major documents been
collected, translated, and analyzed by a team of legal and Tudor
scholars. This edition serves asan important sourcebook and
concludes with a 'docudrama' reconstructing the course of the trial
based on these documents. Legal experts H. A. Kelly and R. H.
Helmholz take different approaches to the legalities of this trial,
and four experienced judges [including Justice of the Queen's Bench
Sir Michael Tugendhat] discuss the trial with some disagreements -
notably on the meaning and requirement of 'malice' called for in
the Parliamentary Act of Supremacy. More's own accounts of his
interrogations in prison are analyzed, and the trial's procedures
are compared to and contrasted with 16th-century concepts of
natural law and also modern judicial practices and principles. The
book is a 'must read' not only for students of law and Tudor
history but also for all concerned with justice and due process. As
a whole, the book challenges Duncan Derrett's conclusions that the
trial was conducted in accord with contemporary legal norms and
that More was convicted only on the single charge of denying
Parliament the power to declare Henry VIII Supreme Head of the
English Church [testified to by Richard Rich] - a position that has
been uniformly accepted by historians since 1964. Henry Ansgar
Kelly, Distinguished Research Professor, is past Director of the
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA. LOUIS W. KARLIN
is an attorney with the California Department of Justice and Fellow
of the Center for Thomas More Studies, University of Dallas. GERARD
B. WEGEMER is Director of the Center for Thomas More Studies and
Professor of Literature at the University ofDallas.
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