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Gerard B. Wegemer is a professor at the University of Dallas and the Director for . He has published many articles and books on Thomas More and is a member of the Board of Editors for Moreana, the international journal on Thomas More and his times. He has graduate degrees in political philosophy and Renaissance literature from the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, and Boston College. For the past several years, he has been engaged in editing a paperback series of More's most popular works, and published a monograph on ''Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty'' (2011), which builds upon his earlier work in ''Thomas More on Statesmanship'' (1996) and ''Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage'' (1995). Forthcoming this Fall is a book Wegemer has co-edited on ''Thomas More's Trial by Jury: A Procedural and Legal Review with a Collection of Documents'' (2011). He is deemed "one of the pre-eminent scholars on St. Thomas More."〔 Through years of developing the website of the Center for Thomas More Studies, Wegemer has greatly advanced the field of More scholarship by making available hundreds of primary source documents by More and his associates, in addition to indexed concordances of his works, analyses of the Latin writings, curriculum units for teaching More, annotated editions for the classroom, and a compendious collection of More criticism. The site also houses ten volumes of the online Journal ''Thomas More Studies''.〔See http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/publications.html.〕 In 2005, Wegemer was honored with the "Dignitatis Humanae Award," presented annually by the University of St. Thomas School of Law "to an individual whose professional career is a model of the integration of faith and ethics into professional identity." ==Select bibliography== * * *〔"Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith, from the University of Dallas and Hillsdale College respectively, have edited together into a manageable and highly readable volume, a collection of documents that form an impressive mosaic of the life — political, intellectual, personal, spiritual, and historical — of Sir Thomas More. The book — ''A Thomas More Sourcebook'' is not, as you might think, simply famous selections from his voluminous tracts, letters, poems, speeches, and philosophic dialogues. Rather, it is something more clever and nimble, which turns out to give a far clearer picture of More than has been heretofore drawn." 〕 *〔"Wegemer is to be congratulated for directing our attention to the need to study More's writings with the subtlety and care they deserve; for showing that More's thoughts and actions reflect a coherence worthy of serious attention; and for reminding us that true statesmanship is measured by the ability to apply consistent principles to the ever changing circumstances of political life." 〕 *〔"An associate professor of English at the University of Dallas and a More scholar, Gerard Wegemer achieves an easy and precise style. His narrative is excellent, especially in the trialand martyrdom. He makes More's English easy for the modern reader by editing sentences to conform somewhat to contemporary usage. All quotations are fully referenced, however, and there is a good bibliography." 〕 * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerard Wegemer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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