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Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World

24 Jun 2026 15 published claims 1 attributable person
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01 / evaluation

Thomas More was a huge critic of the church, huge critic of the church, as was Erasmus, to the point where when Luther starts publishing his criticisms of the church, people think they’re actually coming from Erasmus. They think Erasmus and Luther are the same person because Erasmus had articulated such harsh criticisms of the church.

“Thomas More was a huge critic of the church, huge critic of the church, as was Erasmus, to the point where when Luther starts publishing his criticisms of the church, people think they’re actually coming from Erasmus. They think Erasmus and Luther are the same person because Erasmus had articulated such harsh criticisms of the church.”
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04 / belief

Unfortunately, there’s also been a lot of racism and xenophobia in this country, which of course sits beneath Brexit as well and has continued to pass that point, which has, I think, held us back from bigger conversations.

“Unfortunately, there’s also been a lot of racism and xenophobia in this country, which of course sits beneath Brexit as well and has continued to pass that point, which has, I think, held us back from bigger conversations.”
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06 / evaluation

The growth and interest in what we might think of as mystical texts, a lot of them having to do with Judaism, as well as these Greek texts, comes together to form, I think, something that looks like the foundations of the scientific revolution.

“The growth and interest in what we might think of as mystical texts, a lot of them having to do with Judaism, as well as these Greek texts, comes together to form, I think, something that looks like the foundations of the scientific revolution.”
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07 / evaluation

I’m interested in the way in which Canada has produced a really interesting intellectual history, one that really draws, I think, on republican thought, obviously on federal thought, on the idea of creating a federation, but one that has also really contributed to discourses around multiculturalism.

“I’m interested in the way in which Canada has produced a really interesting intellectual history, one that really draws, I think, on republican thought, obviously on federal thought, on the idea of creating a federation, but one that has also really contributed to discourses around multiculturalism.”
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08 / evaluation

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.

“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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Joanne Paul
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09 / evaluation

Certainly, before he’s Henry VII, when he’s making waves in Europe and threatening invasion and stuff, Richard III calls him Henry Tydder, as, I think, a way of undermining him as a leader to whom people might flock, making fun of this very Welsh name that he has.

“Certainly, before he’s Henry VII, when he’s making waves in Europe and threatening invasion and stuff, Richard III calls him Henry Tydder, as, I think, a way of undermining him as a leader to whom people might flock, making fun of this very Welsh name that he has.”
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10 / evaluation

I’ve been in situations in academic contexts where I’ve been mocked for believing in the flying spaghetti monster, as some will put it. It’s not something that I encounter that much and not something that I talk about that much because there is still such a criticism of those who have a faith beyond reason.

“I’ve been in situations in academic contexts where I’ve been mocked for believing in the flying spaghetti monster, as some will put it. It’s not something that I encounter that much and not something that I talk about that much because there is still such a criticism of those who have a faith beyond reason.”
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Joanne Paul
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14 / evaluation

I think he’s trying to say something very pointed about the nature of the island of Utopia, as both obviously completely fantastic, unreal, impossible, while at the same time, there’s something about Utopia that I think he’s suggesting is more real than the world that he lives in.

“I think he’s trying to say something very pointed about the nature of the island of Utopia, as both obviously completely fantastic, unreal, impossible, while at the same time, there’s something about Utopia that I think he’s suggesting is more real than the world that he lives in.”
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15 / prediction

I think that there are important lessons in that for us today, the way that we can become convinced that a group will lead to the breakdown of our society, that fear can lead to that hatred and indeed that violence.

“I think that there are important lessons in that for us today, the way that we can become convinced that a group will lead to the breakdown of our society, that fear can lead to that hatred and indeed that violence.”
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