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24 Jun 2026 Conversations with Tyler Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World
“I think the pair too were just very interested in satire, in using satire as almost a stick to prod the prideful and powerful with, as a way of bringing them down a bit more and really trying to point out to them how silly their pride was.”
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- 24 Jun 2026
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…How did More influence In Praise of Folly, Erasmus’s greatest work? Erasmus dedicates Praise of Folly to More, as you say. He may have written some of it, parts of it, while staying at Thomas More’s home. The title itself, Praise of Folly, can actually in Latin mean praise of More. More stands in some ways as that figure of wise folly that Erasmus is trying to articulate in Praise of Folly. I think the pair too were just very interested in satire, in using satire as almost a stick to prod the prideful and powerful with, as a way of bringing them down a bit more and really trying to point out to them how silly their pride was. Both Erasmus and More liked poking fun, liked making fun of those who they considered to be stuffed up with pride. Do you read Thomas More’s Utopia as satire? Or Book 2, do you think he meant it? “This is the actual utopia.”…
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