Dont lose your head: Utopia as an attack on the king

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Peter Sipes, 2014 NEIU student research symposium

Positioning
the words the speaker chooses inevitably contain images and metaphors which both assume and invoke the ways o being that the participants take themselves to be involved in.! "#avies and $arr%& 1''() England as Utopia haec est regia illa totius *ngliae civitas +,-#.-./0 ad luvium Themesim sita. situm est igitur *maurotum& in leni deiectu montis& 1gura ere quadrata. nam latitudo eius paulo in ra collis incoepta uerticem& milibus passuum duobus ad 2umen *nydrum pertinet& secundum ripam aliquanto longior.

This is the palace o all 3ngland& the city o *maurot there ore is situated7lies by the +ondon& 4which is5 sited by the 6iver Thames. *nyder 6iver or two miles7 Making the king look good 8um non e9igui momenti negotia quaedam inuictissimus *ngliae 6e9 $enricus eius nominis octauus& omnibus egregii principis artibus ornatissimus& cum serenissimo castellae principe 8arolo controuersa nuper habuisset7 :hen the unconquered ;ing o 3ngland& $enry the eighth o his name& most decorated with all arts o an e9ceptional prince recently had a certain business that wasn<t o paltry import with the most serene prince o 8astile& 8harles7

Concordance
Primary corpus /topia Reference corpus The biggest and baddest corpus engine or +atin is =erseus #igital +ibrary For political words: 8icero<s de 6epublica For religion words: +atin >ulgate ?ible