Description
Book SynopsisThomas Hoccleve (1368–426) was one of Chaucer’s first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated.
Trade ReviewThe wealth of detail noticed and reported on by Ellis is absolutely staggering ... It is a serious work, offered by a committed textual scholar who has investigated all the complex issues of authority and transmission ... It allows us to bring into the classroom data about the complex and unique history of textual transformation for Hoccleve's works, a real “behind the scenes” look at medieval authorship and composition ... One thing is certain, the reader will know Hoccleve well as poet, translator and scribe after reading this edition cover to cover, all the way through, as Hoccleve long ago exhorted us to do. Ellis's edition, bursting at the seams with historical, textual and critical detail, a feast of both matter and art, will doubtlessly be a major factor in the renaissance of Hoccleve studies. * The Medieval Review *
Table of Contents
- Frontispiece
- Acknowledgements
- Sigla of Manuscripts and Other Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Notes
- Editorial Principles
- A Note on Hoccleve's Language
- MINOR VERSE
- I. 'Conpleynte paramont'
- Notes
- II. 'La male regle de T. Hoccleue'
- Notes
- III. 'Balade et chanceon...a mon meistre H. Somer'
- Notes
- IV. 'Balade...[pour] mon meistre Robert Chichele'
- Notes
- V. 'Item de beata Virgine'
- Notes
- VI. 'L'epistre de Cupide'
- Notes
- VII. THE SERIES
- 1. 'My compleinte'
- Notes
- 2. 'A dialoge'
- Notes
- 3. 'Fabula de quadam imperatrice Romana'
- Notes
- 4. 'Ars vtillissima sciendi mori'
- Notes
- 5. 'Fabula de quadam muliere mala'
- Notes
- 6; Appendices
- 1. The stanzas added to the 'Conpleynte paramont' in the Middle English Pilgrimage of the Soul
- 2A. A comparison of the version of Hoccleve's first Gesta narrative with selected Latin and Middle English analogues
- 2B. The source of Hoccleve's 'Balade... translatee au commandement de... Robert Chichele.'
- 3. The glosses to 'Ars vtillissima sciendi mori' in S and D, 270
- 4. Additional notes on the textual relations of the non-holograph copies of the 'Conpleynte paramont', 'Epistre de Cupide' and the Series
- 5. Selected variants from the non-holograph manuscript copies of the texts here edited
- Bibliography
- Editions of texts or selections
- Secondary literature
