Thomas More served under King Henry VIII as his "Intellectual Courtier", Secretary, and his Confidant. He was Erasmus's English Counterpart, leading author, and and English Politician. In 1523 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, was Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chancellor of England. Thomas More came up with the "Utopia", which was an ideal political system in which policies are governed by reason and also came up with the "Ideal Society", which was men and women live in harmony and no one is idle, all are educated, and justice is used to end crime rather than to eliminate the
Thomas More served under King Henry VIII as his "Intellectual Courtier", Secretary, and his Confidant. He was Erasmus's English Counterpart, leading author, and and English Politician. In 1523 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, was Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chancellor of England. Thomas More came up with the "Utopia", which was an ideal political system in which policies are governed by reason and also came up with the "Ideal Society", which was men and women live in harmony and no one is idle, all are educated, and justice is used to end crime rather than to eliminate the