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Thomas Hoccleve - Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer (Paperback)
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Thomas Hoccleve - Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer (Paperback)
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
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This book explores the work of the late-medieval English writer
Thomas Hoccleve. It highlights Hoccleve's role, throughout his
works, as a religious writer: an individual who engages seriously
with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who
contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who
raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as
well as political levels. It suggests a role for Hoccleve as a
poetic mediator, capable of mediating between the increasingly
militant English church and an incipient English literary
tradition, and it highlights Hoccleve's role in transforming the
figure of Chaucer in the first decades of the fifteenth century. It
argues that the version of Chaucer presented in Hoccleve's Regiment
of Princes - august, devout, and conspicuously religious - is not a
pre-formed artifact, but rather a Hocclevian invention; and it
indicates the ecclesiastical, political, and literary contexts that
make this version of Chaucer both possible and necessary. This
study also situates Hoccleve's accomplishments in a transnational
poetic context - offering French and Italian precedents for
Hoccleve's moralization of Chaucer, while examining the influence
of contemporary French poetry on Hoccleve's work. It positions us
to reconsider Hoccleve's role within English literary tradition,
and to better understand the way heresy and religious reform
surface in late medieval poetry; and it affords us a more nuanced
context for Chaucer's positioning as a literary 'father' figure in
this period.
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