History Articles Needing Expert Attention - Nationalism, Turkic Peoples, Thomas More, Timeline of Agriculture and Food Technology (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Nationalism, Turkic peoples, Thomas More, Timeline of agriculture and food technology, History of East Asia, History of Sri Lanka, Chorale, I, Claudius, Smelting, A vakas, Ananda Mahidol, France in the Middle Ages, Great Depression in the United Kingdom, Age of Liberty, Anti-communist mass killings, Dominium mundi, List of Sabini, Early western influence in Fujian, Anthropometric history, Back-to-Africa movement, Classical demography, Altmark Incident, Witchcraft and children, History of Lagos, Jarrow March, National League for Democracy, History of lesbianism, Vladimir Morozan, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900, Bu Ali Shah Qalandar, Feudalism in Pakistan, Social issues of the 1920s, De Virga world map, American espionage in the Soviet Union, Index card, Langweiler, Bermuda Conference, Pomponio Algerio, Corsican Constitution, Alamet, Convivio. Excerpt: Sir Thomas More (; 7 February 1478 - 6 July 1535), also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor. He is recognised as a saint within the Catholic Church and is commemorated by the Church of England as a 'Reformation martyr'. He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of Martin Luther, and William Tyndale. More coined the word "utopia" - a name he gave to the ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in Utopia, published in 1516. He opposed the king's separation from the Catholic Church and refused to accept the king as Supreme Head of the Church of England, a status the king had been given by a compliant parliament through the Act of Supremacy of 1534. He was imprisoned in ...