John More's Accomplishments

After Thomas’s opportunity to stay with John Morton he got gained new interests on literature and arts. He started to develop biblical and Greek interests. He would study Gospel texts and manuscripts of the early Church Fathers. While More was studying and pursuing in his legal career and acceptance into Parliament, was drawn closely into the Christian Humanist Circle. “He spent his mid-20s in close touch with London's austere Carthusian monks and almost adopted their vocation. His thinking at this stage is represented by his interest in the Italian philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, who had also become increasingly pious when approaching the age of 30 a decade before; More's 1505 translation of Pico's first biography stressed that