<div> This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More?s widely influential book <i>Utopia</i>, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of <i>Utopia</i> itself, and appraisals of More?s relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of <i>Utopia</i> on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more. <br /> &nbsp; </div>