John Rastell, Thomas More

John Rastell, Thomas More and the 'New World' Introduction 1. While much has been written about the geographical background of Utopia, modern critical attention for the most part has been too narrowly focused on the Americas. 1 It is all too often forgotten in relation to Utopia that there were in fact at least two 'New Worlds' in the 16th Century – not only the Americas but also sub-Saharan Africa and most of Asia, which were equally new …showed first 75 words of 4726 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4726 total…nowhere in a sense because it is everywhere – everywhere that is except here. The one thing we can clearly say about it is that it is not in the Northern Hemisphere, in hoc noto nobis orbe, in this world well-known to us. More wasn't thinking of America in hemispheric terms, rather he associated, the "new founden lands" of South and Central America with the Classical understanding of the Antipodes and the Medieval understanding of India.