A Dialogue Concerning Heresies is printed as a dated anti-Reformation book
In 1529 A Dialogue Concerning Heresies appeared under More’s name against Tyndale’s New Testament and related books. In the causal graph this event strengthens Political Polarization, a driver that weakens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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In 1529 A Dialogue Concerning Heresies appeared under More’s name against Tyndale’s New Testament and related books. It is not the same row as the chancellor’s arrests, though it is the same man’s print.
Context
The Yale edition tradition and the British Library’s Tudor print world independently locate the 1529 Dialogue.
Thomas More’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Conventional years are 1478–1535. Surviving public files are later parliamentary biographies, TNA calendars, HRP Tower pages, the Yale More tradition, and encyclopedias. More did not typeset those later pages. 1935 canonisation is posthumous and is not a Fact.
Why it matters
Polarisation path. High confidence on the 1529 print.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Thomas More
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
He wrote the Dialogue. Printers issued it. Complex: Tyndale is the counterpart in print, not an affiliate.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactA Dialogue Concerning Heresies is printed as a dated anti-Reformation book
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 January 1529 · verified
A dated vernacular attack on evangelical books polarised English print in the Reformation’s opening years.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Essential Works of Thomas More — Yale-linked public siteYale University Press / Essential More · High credibility · verified
- 2.British LibraryBritish Library · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Essential More and the British Library independently describe the 1529 Dialogue as a public anti-heresy book.
Established: the 1529 Dialogue was printed. Not established: a unique later recusancy series from this title.
Thomas More did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A dialogue is not a Tower warrant. Keep 1534 as detention. A dialogue is not a Tower warrant. Keep 1534 as detention.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorThomas More
- contributed toFactA Dialogue Concerning Heresies is printed as a dated anti-Reformation book
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). A Dialogue Concerning Heresies is printed as a dated anti-Reformation book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/tm-dialogue-heresies-1529
https://factrail.ai/facts/tm-dialogue-heresies-1529
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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