Location
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento campus, Classroom E
Start Date
7-4-2016 2:30 PM
End Date
7-4-2016 3:30 PM
Description
The fifth UTOPIA500 presentation was April 7, 2016 about St. Thomas More and his Utopia in Antebellum American Lawyers' Thought. A former dean at Kansas Law and a renowned historian of colonial and pre-Civil War America, Professor Michael H. Hoeflich is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He explored the publication history of More's UTOPIA, and the extent to which editions of the book were available in antebellum America. Professor Hoeflich noted that the novel, as a work of "politics," was well known by the likes of Jefferson, Madison, and John Adams, but its influence thereafter ebbed and flowed, until it regained its unquestioned prominence in the Twentieth Century.
St. Thomas More and his Utopia in Antebellum American Lawyer's Thought
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento campus, Classroom E
The fifth UTOPIA500 presentation was April 7, 2016 about St. Thomas More and his Utopia in Antebellum American Lawyers' Thought. A former dean at Kansas Law and a renowned historian of colonial and pre-Civil War America, Professor Michael H. Hoeflich is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He explored the publication history of More's UTOPIA, and the extent to which editions of the book were available in antebellum America. Professor Hoeflich noted that the novel, as a work of "politics," was well known by the likes of Jefferson, Madison, and John Adams, but its influence thereafter ebbed and flowed, until it regained its unquestioned prominence in the Twentieth Century.
