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24 Jun 2026 Conversations with Tyler Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World
“As a historian, I take one of my principles as to not try to put people into a box of good or evil.”
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- 24 Jun 2026
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…As you point out in the book, and you’re well aware, he oversaw the persecution of heretics. He oversaw torture. He was misogynistic when he wrote about women. Was he just a bad guy? Is that the correct picture of More, or am I supposed to admire him? He took a stand on principle, and he died, but what was the principle, really? To defend Catholicism, which then was also an instrument of torture? As a historian, I take one of my principles as to not try to put people into a box of good or evil. I’m not a historian. Should I just dislike him?…
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