Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More

The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More is the standard scholarly edition

Textual criticism

Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...

of the works of Thomas More

Thomas More

Sir Thomas More , 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...

, published by Yale University Press

Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....

. The first of the fifteen volumes to be published (volume 2) appeared in 1963, and the last (volume 1) in 1997. The English works are provided with glossaries, and the Latin works with facing English translations.

Volumes

The full list of volumes to date is:

Volume 1: English Poems. Life of Pico. The Last Things. Edited by Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of...

. 1997.
Volume 2: The History of King Richard III. Edited by Richard S. Sylvester. 1963.
Volume 3, Part I: Translations of Lucian. Edited by Craig R. Thompson. 1974.
Volume 3, Part II: Latin Poems. Edited by Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of...

, Leicester Bradner, and Charles A. Lynch. 1984.
Volume 4: Utopia
Utopia (book)
Utopia is a work of fiction by Thomas More published in 1516...

. Edited by Edward Surtz S.J. and J. H. Hexter
J. H. Hexter
Jack H. Hexter was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography.-Early career:...

. 1965.
Volume 5: Responsio ad Lutherum. Edited by John Headley. 1969.
Volume 6, Parts I & II: A Dialogue Concerning Heresies. Edited by Thomas M. C. Lawler, Germain Marc'hadour
Germain Marc'hadour
Germain Marc'hadour was a professor of English at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest , an internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Thomas More and founder of the journal Moreana.-Life and career:...

, and Richard C. Marius. 1981.
Volume 7: Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls, Letter Against Frith. Edited by Frank Manley, Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of...

, and Richard C. Marius. 1990.
Volume 8, Parts I-III: The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer. Edited by Louis A. Schuster, Richard C. Marius, and James P. Lusardi. 1973.
Volume 9: The Apology. Edited by J. B. Trapp
J. B. Trapp
Joseph Burney Trapp was the director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at London University from 1976 to 1990.-Life:...

. 1979.
Volume 10: The Debellation of Salem and Bizance. Edited by John Guy
John Guy (historian)
John Guy is a British historian and biographer.Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey...

, Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of...

, and Ralph Keen. 1988.
Volume 11: The Answer to a Poisoned Book. Edited by Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of...

and Stephen M. Foley. 1985.
Volume 12: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. Edited by Louis L. Martz and Frank Manley. 1976.
Volume 13: Treatise on the Passion, Treatise on the Blessed Body, Instructions and Prayers. Edited by Garry E. Haupt. 1976.
Volume 14: De Tristitia Christi. Edited by Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller is an American professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature, and creating the classic translations from Latin of Saint Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, and Erasmus's 1509 The Praise of...

. 1976.
Volume 15: In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford, Lee, and a Monk. Edited by Daniel Kinney. 1986.

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