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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.
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