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This volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve
since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English
poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth
of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right.
The Middle English poet Thomas Hoccleve, known particularly for his
entertainingly biographical verse describing life as a Privy Seal
clerk in early fifteenth-century Westminster, is now recognised as
a key figure in the literature of later medieval England. This
volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since
1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic
tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of
ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right.
Chapters explore the idiosyncratic forms of his two principle
works, The Regiment of Princes and Series, as well as Hoccleve's
distinctive imagery of moving feet, of swelling and bursting
bodies, and of the actions of personified Death. Other essays
consider the presence of the figure of the woman reader, the part
played by the codex in posthumous literary sanctification, the
links between Hoccleve's formulary of model letters and documents
and his own verse, and the mutually informing relations of
Hoccleve's minor poetry and major works. They are preceded by a
substantial introduction, considering contemporary responses to
Hoccleve in the light of current trends in literary criticism and
surveying the reception of his works between the fifteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and
Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped
late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to
reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of
international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French
conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with
connections across the continent through alliances and proxy
battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs,
played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally
impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a
wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses
to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like
Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de
Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales. -- .
New investigations into Charles d'Orleans' under-rated poem, its
properties and its qualities. The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes,
the English poetry Charles d'Orleans wrote in the course of his
twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a
larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which it has most
often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that
attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French
traditions, reveals a more conceptually complex and innovative kind
of poetry than we have seen until now. The essays collected here
reassess him in the light of recent work in Middle English studies.
They detail those qualities that make his text one of the most
accomplished and moving of the late Middle Ages: Charles's use of
English, his metrical play, his felicity with formes fixes lyrics,
his innovative use of the dits structure and lyric sequences, and
finally, above all, his ability to write beautiful poetry. Overall,
they bring out the underappreciated contribution made by Charles to
the canon of English poetry.
The mid-twentieth century gave rise to a rich array of new
approaches to the study of the Middle Ages by both professional
medievalists and those more well-known from other pursuits, many of
whom continue to exert their influence over politics, art, and
history today. Attending to the work of a diverse and transnational
group of intellectuals - Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, W. E. B. Du
Bois, Frantz Fanon, Erwin Panofsky, Simone Weil, among others - the
essays in this volume shed light on these thinkers in relation to
one another and on the persistence of their legacies in our own
time. This interdisciplinary collection gives us a fuller and
clearer sense of how these figures made some of their most enduring
contributions with medieval culture in mind. Thinking of the
Medieval is a timely reminder of just how vital the Middle Ages
have been in shaping modern thought.
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