The Execution of Thomas More: A Complex Life and Legacy
ByAinvest
Friday, Jul 11, 2025 10:01 am ET1min read
Thomas More, a former Lord Chancellor of England, was executed in 1535 for denying Henry VIII's title as supreme head of the Church of England. He was spared the gruesome fate of traditional traitors and beheaded instead. More was a man of letters and a complex figure whose life defies moralizing. Joanne Paul's biography, "Thomas More: A Life," captures the life of this fascinating man and the world he died trying to preserve.

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