Utopia

George M. Logan (Ph.D. Harvard) is a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto and the James Cappon Professor of English Emeritus at Queens University, Canada, where he was head of the English Department for nine years and an award-winning teacher. He is the author of The Meaning of Mores Utopia and principal editor of the Cambridge edition of Utopia (Latin and English), editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (3rd edition), Mores History of King Richard the Third, and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More, and coeditor, with Gordon Teskey, of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance; he has also written a history of the Indiana University School of Music. Robert M. Adams was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics; Strains of Discord; Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation; The Land and Literature of England; and ShakespeareThe Four Romances. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Candide by Voltaire, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Preface Translators Note Abbreviations The Text of Utopia Backgrounds Plato [The Guardians] Ovid [The Golden Age and After] The Acts of the Apostles [The Community] Lucian of Samosata [Saturns Age] St. Ambrose [Naboths Vineyard] St. Benedict [Monastic Rules] Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Anonymous From The Land of Cockayne Amerigo Vespucci From The Four Voyages The First Voyage The Fourth Voyage G. R. Elton [The Problems of the Realm] The Humanist Circle: Letters Peter Giles to Jerome Busleyden Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More Guillaume Bud to Thomas Lupset Erasmus of Rotterdam to Johann Froben Thomas More to Peter Giles Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten