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In reply to the discussion: "Now is the winter of our discontent" Weekend Economists: November 30-Dec 2, 2012 [View all]Tansy_Gold
(17,873 posts)That Sir Thomas More, who had oh so many political reasons for defaming Richard, would eventually take the Church's side against Henry VIII and ultimately lose his head for it. More's personal history has many connections to both the Yorks and the Tudors.
By the time More was writing his History of King Richard III, printing had made the dissemination of written works much more easy, and that in turn spurred the increased literacy of the general population. (Printers and booksellers needed a literate population to whom to sell their works.) And by the time Shakespeare was writing, producing, and publishing his plays a century and more after Bosworth, there were few who could, even if they dared, speak up to defend Richard.
More also wrote Utopia and so is called by some to be one of the first "modern" science fiction/fantasy writers. And in 1935 he was canonized by the Catholic Church as a martyr in the schism that would become the Protestant Reformation.
The ultra conservative christian Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, MI is named for More.