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Index 217 Act for Punishment of Heresy (1534), 145 action: contemplation and, 7, 11–12, 15, 21– 27, 108; dialogue of counsel and, 77–78; faith and, 7; Life of Pico and, 11–12; love and, 39–40; otium and negotium, 76, 77, 80–81, 85; politics and, 33; sanctification and, 39; vita activa and contemplativa, 11 Act of Succession, 183 Act of Supremacy, 106, 141, 152, 177, 191 Additions of Salem and Byzance (St. German ), 173 Address to Young Men on . . . Greek Literature (Basil), 22 Admonition (Colet), 39 agape, 124 Ajax, 131 Alberti, Leon, 24 Alington, Alice, 176, 190, 193 allegory, 133 allusion, 25, 98, 109, 157 amor. See love amor Dei in nobis, 17, 86 anachronism, 8, 175, 182 Annals (Tacitus), 43 Annotationes in XXIV libros Pandectarum (Budé), 90 Anthony, 197–98, 199 Antibarbari (Erasmus), 20, 21, 29, 113 anticlericalism, 14, 140, 152, 160, 163, 170–72. See also clergy Apology of Sir Thomas More, Knight (More), 140, 142, 170, 172 aposiopesis, 63 apostasy, 148 apostles, 91, 133 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 83n49, 150; conscience and, 156; law and equity and, 155; praise of, 28–29, 111; reason and, 156; St. German and, 152–53, 159 arbitration, 99–100, 101 aristocracy, 52, 53, 54, 61 Aristotle, 76, 92; Aquinas and, 29; equity and, 93, 97–98, 100, 148, 153, 156; tyranny and, 78 The Art of Poesy (Puttenham), 94 The Art of Rhetoric (Wilson), 94, 188 asceticism, 15n1, 19 Assertio (Henry VIII), 133 Atreus, 186 Audley, Thomas, 182, 194 Augustine, St., 26, 199; honor and, 23, 24, 41; humanism and learning and, 109; human nature and, 7; love and, 36, 39; lying and, 197; mixed life and, 34, 80; philosophy and theology and, 22; Pico and, 30; signs and, 121 authenticity, 176, 193 authority, 88; Church and, 108, 190; faith and reason and, 118–19; heresy and, 114; liberal arts and, 117; More and St. German and, 14; papal, 184; Parliament and, 152; reason and, 123; tradition and, 125, 127 218 Index Bainham, James, 169 baptism, 122 Barton, Elizabeth, 180–83, 200 Barton, J. L., 156, 157–58 Basil, St., 18, 22 Batt, 21 Bayfield, Richard, 169 Bernard, G. W., 152, 169, 170 best way of life, 34, 38, 132, 134 Bible, 6n18, 29, 109, 125 Bilney, Thomas, 30, 116–17, 136, 169 Boleyn, Anne, 180, 184 Bolt, Robert, 8, 9, 14, 174, 175–76, 180, 189, 192–93, 196 Boyce, Benjamin, 114 Bradner, Leicester, 47 Bradshaw, Brendan, 10, 75, 76–77, 85–86, 88, 102–3, 172 bragging, 18, 115 Branham, R. Bracht, 19 Buckingham, Duke of, 50–51, 55, 56, 57, 59, 61–65, 67, 71, 82, 195, 198; Cardinal Morton and, 83 Budé, Guillaume, 90–92 Cabalism, 29 caesaropapism, 180 Cambridge Companion to Thomas More Studies, 9, 10 Cambridge University, 110 canon law, 13, 141–44, 146, 148, 169 Canzone dello Amore Celeste e Divino (Pico), 29 The Cardinal’s Court (Guy), 147, 148 Carey, John, 138 Carthusians, 16, 34, 182 Catherine of Aragon, 195 Catholic Church. See Church cavillation (cavillatio), 57 Cestius, Gaius, 57 Chambers, R. W., 1, 2, 3, 9, 106, 174, 176, 182, 189, 192 Chancery courts, 75, 89, 99, 101, 151 charism, 49 charity, 25, 125; action and contemplation and, 34–35; Church and, 132; community and, 86; faith and, 132; God and, 80; piety and, 21; profit and, 35; truth and, 161; in Tyndale’s translation, 124 Charterhouse monastery, 19 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 93 Christ, 21, 33, 97; commandments of, 91; communion with God in, 7; crucifixion of, 112; kingship and, 50; mystical body of, 49; Scripture and, 133; as Word, 126 Christendom: authoritative teaching of, 176; common corps of, 13, 14, 121, 176, 189–90; common senses and, 128; communal solidarity of, 192, 193; General Council of, 179 Christian humanism. See humanism Christianity: humanism and, 11; human nature and, 112; paganism, pagans and, 16, 17–18, 21–22; skepticism about, 6n18; theocentric, 123 Christifideles laici, 7 Chrysostom, St. John, 199 Church, 7; allegory of, 133; authority and, 108; authority of, 190; charisms within, 49; charity and, 132; Christ, mystical body of, and, 49; common sense and, 135, 176; community and, 13, 50, 132, 133–34; consensus and, 106, 123, 190–91; doctrine and, 13; faction in, 115; heresy and, 13, 171; laity and, 140; learning and, 26, 110; More’s defense of, 10, 14, 106, 140; piety and, 110; power of, 162, 170; profitable learning and, 23, 24, 26, 27, 33; Scripture and, 13, 125, 133; signs in, 108, 120–23...

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