Thomas More: Humanism and Heresy Andrew Hadfield and Joanne Paul, Reaktion Books, £18.95HADFIELD and Paul’s new intellectual history of Thomas More attempts to steer a course through two dominant views of the English statesman and scholar: one which sees him as a martyr and signpost for the importance of the individual conscience against the state; another which views him as a persecutor of religious dissent who stood shoulder to shoulder with the state (until he didn’t, of course).