Gerard Wegemer

{{Short description|English professor and center director}} '''Gerard B. Wegemer''' is a professor at the University of Dallas and the founding Director for {{Citation/make link|http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/|The Center for Thomas More Studies}}. 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 Renaissance studies. He has graduate degrees in political philosophy and literature from the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, and Boston College. He is co-editor of ''[https://essentialmore.org/ The Essential Works of Thomas More]'', which assembles all of More's major English and Latin works for the first time in a single volume.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://essentialmore.org/|title=The Essential Works of Thomas More|language=en}}</ref> He is also co-editor of essentialmore.org and thomasmorestudies.org. His other notable publications include ''Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty'' (2011), ''Thomas More's Trial by Jury: A Procedural and Legal Review with a Collection of Documents'' (2011), ''A Thomas More Source Book'' (2004), ''Thomas More on Statesmanship'' (1996), and ''Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage'' (1995). He is deemed "one of the pre-eminent scholars on St. Thomas More."<ref name="minnesota" />

Through years of developing the website of the Center for Thomas More Studies,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thomasmorestudies.org/|title=The Center for Thomas More Studies|website=www.thomasmorestudies.org}}</ref> 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 concordances to each of More's works as well as comprehensive concordances for More's corpus as a whole, and over fifteen volumes of the online journal ''Thomas More Studies''.<ref>See http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/publications.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925013451/http://thomasmorestudies.org/publications.html |date=2011-09-25 }}.</ref>

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."<ref name="minnesota">{{cite news | title = University of St. Thomas School of Law dedicates statue of St. Thomas More | work = Minnesota Lawyer | date = 2005-02-15 }}</ref>

==Select bibliography== *Wegemer, Gerard B; Stephen W. Smith (2020). T''he Essential Works of Thomas More. New Haven: Yale University Press''. {{ISBN|978-0-300-22337-8}}. *{{cite book | last = Wegemer | first = Gerard B. | title = Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2011 | location = Cambridge, UK | isbn = 978-0-521-19653-6}} *{{cite book | last = Wegemer | first = Gerard B. |author2=Henry Ansgar Kelley |author3=Louis W. Karlin | title = Thomas More's Trial by Jury: A Procedural and Legal Review with a Collection of Documents | publisher = Boydell Press | year = 2011 | location = Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK | isbn = 978-1-84383-629-2}} *{{cite book | last = Wegemer | first = Gerard B. |author2=Stephen W. Smith | title = A Thomas More Sourcebook | publisher = Catholic University of America Press | year = 2004 | location = Washington, D.C. | isbn = 0-8132-1376-2}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Mehan |first=Matthew |title=Getting to Know Thomas More: A more seasoned Man for All Seasons |work=National Review |date=2005-08-25 |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/mehan200508250824.asp |access-date=2009-05-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112233557/http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=%2Fcomment%2Fmehan200508250824.asp |archive-date=January 12, 2007 }}</ref> *{{cite book | last = Wegemer | first = Gerard B. | title = Thomas More on Statesmanship | publisher = Catholic University of America Press | year = 1996 | location = Washington, D.C. | isbn = 0-8132-0836-X }}<ref>{{cite journal | last = Keen | first = Ralph | author-link = Ralph Keen | title = Rev. of Wegemer, ''Thomas More on Statesmanship'' | journal = The Sixteenth Century Journal | volume = 28 | issue = 1 | pages = 219–20 | date = Spring 1997 | doi = 10.2307/2543253 | jstor = 2543253 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Marius|first1=Richard|last2=Wegemer|first2=Gerard B.|date=Summer 1997|title=Rev. of Wegemer, ''Thomas More on Statesmanship''|journal=Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies|publisher=The North American Conference on British Studies|volume=29|issue=2|pages=282–83|doi=10.2307/4051822|jstor=4051822}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bouldin|first1=Wood|last2=Wegemer|first2=Gerard B.|date=Autumn 1998|title=Rev. of Wegemer, ''Thomas More on Statesmanship''|journal=Renaissance Quarterly|publisher=Renaissance Society of America|volume=51|issue=3|pages=1020–21|doi=10.2307/2901794|jstor=2901794}}</ref><ref>"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." {{cite journal | last = Nendza | first = James | title = Review: Reason, Rhetoric, and Law | journal = The Review of Politics | volume = 60 | issue = 2 | pages = 385–87 | date = Spring 1998 | doi = 10.1017/s0034670500041334 }}</ref> *{{cite book | last = Wegemer | first = Gerard B. | title = Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage | publisher = Scepter | year = 1995 | location = Princeton | isbn = 0-933932-84-7}}<ref>"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." {{cite journal|last=Loughran|first=Hugh|date=Dec 2000|title=Rev. of Gerard Wegemer, ''Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage''|journal=Catholic Insight|volume=8|issue=10}}</ref> *{{cite book|title = The Sadness of Christ: And Final Prayers and Instructions, by Saint Thomas More|last = Wegemer|first = Gerard|publisher = Scepter|year = 1993|isbn = 0-933932-66-9|location = Princeton|author2=Clarence Miller}}

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==External links== *[http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/ The Center for Thomas More Studies] at the University of Dallas *[https://essentialmore.org The Essential Works of Thomas More]

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