The best Latin and English edition of Utopia is now that edited by
George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence H. Miller ( Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). The outstanding modern
critical accounts of Utopia are (in chronological order): J. H. Hexter,
More's "Utopia": The Biography of an Idea ( Princeton: Princeton Uni-
versity Press, 1952); Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning
from More to Shakespeare ( Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1980), pp.
11-73; George M. Logan, The Meaning of More's "Utopia" ( Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1983); Quentin Skinner, "Sir Thomas
More's Utopia and the Language of Renaissance Humanism," in The
Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe, ed. Anthony Pag den
( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 123-57.

Particularly helpful are also Essential Articles for the Study of Thomas
More, R. S. Sylvester and G. P. Marc'hadour, eds. ( Hamden, Conn.: Ar-
chon Books, 1977); Dominic Baker-Smith, More's "Utopia" ( London:
Harper Collins, 1991); and Alistair Fox, "Utopia": An Elusive Vision
( New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993). On Utopia and the Adages there is
my own "Friendship Portrayed: A New Account of Utopia," History
Workshop 45 ( 1998), 25-47. The earliest and most influential biography of
More is that by his son-in-law, William Roper, of which there are many
editions; the modernized text in Two Early Tudor Lives, Richard S. Sylvester
and Davis P. Harding, eds. ( New Haven: Yale University Press,
1962) may be particularly recommended. The most recent is that by Pe ter Ackroyd
( London: Chatto and Windus, 1998).

Three key texts by Erasmus in translation are The Education of a Chris-
tian Prince, Lisa Jardine, ed. ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997); Praise of Folly, A. H. T. Levi, ed. (Harmondsworth: Penguin
Books, 1993); and a selection of the Adages in Margaret Mann Philips,
The "Adages" of Erasmus ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1964), abbreviated by the same author in Erasmus on His Times ( Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967). Of general studies of Eras-
mus one may note in particular Richard J. Schoeck, Erasmus of Europe
( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993) and Lisa Jardine, Eras-
mus, Man of Letters ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).

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