Utopia’s Moorish Inspiration: Thomas More’s Reading of Ibn Ṭufayl
A promising but neglected precedent for Thomas More’s Utopia is to be found in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ibn Ḥayy Yaqẓān. This twelfth-century Andalusian philosophical novel describing the self-education and enlightenment of a feral child on an island, while certainly a precedent for the European Bildungsroman,...
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| Language: | English |
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Iter Press
2018
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Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2018, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 17-46 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance TG High Middle Ages TH Late Middle Ages VA Philosophy |
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