Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (later canonized St. Thomas More) is famous for his book Utopia which he wrote in 1515 and also for his martyrdom. He was a Chancellor to Henry VIII; he refused to sanction Henry’s divorce of Queen Catherine. More was then imprisoned, tried, and executed. This event was later made into a play, A Man of for All Seasons, although it is not historically accurate.
More coined the word, “utopia” which is a pun that means both “good place” and “no place” at the same time. More’s Utopia was discovered on a voyage to the newly discovered Americas. It was the first book to give an analogy between the great voyages of discovery to the discoveries of the mind. The book Utopia was based of the books of Plato, Laws and Republic. More’s government in Utopia was a communistic democracy, not an aristocracy with communism confined only to the high...