“My case was such in this matter through the clearness of my own conscience that though I might have pain I could not have harm, for a man may in such a case lose his head and not have harm.”
About Sir Thomas More
7 February 1478–6 July 1535
In the pantheon of Renaissance literature, few figures cast as long a shadow as Sir Thomas More, a man whose pen shaped both political thought and literary imagination for centuries to come. Born into the bustling world of Tudor London in 1478, More would rise to become one of England's most celebrated humanist…