{"product_id":"thomas-hoccleve-religious-reform-transnational-poetics-and-the-invention-of-chaucer-9781789628067","title":"Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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 \u003ci\u003eRegiment of Princes\u003c\/i\u003e – 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘For nearly 40 years Thomas Hoccleve toiled at the Privy Seal, a professional scribe stooping and staring ‘upon the sheepes skyn’ […] Langdell convincingly moves his rehabilitation forward with this thoughtful, wide-ranging and learned reassessment.'\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJane Roberts, \u003ci\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The emphasis on Hoccleve’s influence in the conclusion, while quickly spelled out here, is of great importance and will hopefully serve to inspire other scholars; in particular, using Hoccleve’s religious identity to connect him with Lydgate—specifically to the Life of Our Lady—is a promising avenue of research that many others may want to pursue, and thank Langdell as they do.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eR. D. Perry, \u003ci\u003eSpeculum \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Langdell’s book is rich in textual comparison and includes a productive analytical range with close readings based on surviving paleographical evidence and imagery, as well as more traditional forms of textual analysis.' \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e J. A. T. Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe New Chaucer Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. “What world is this? How vndirstande am I?”: Reading and Moralization in the \u003ci\u003eSeries\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e2.  Vice, Virtue, and Poetic Mediation in the \u003ci\u003eEpistle of Cupid\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e3. “What shal I calle thee? What is thy name?”: Hoccleve, Chaucer, and the Architectonics of Fame\u003cbr\u003e4. Reforming Thought: The Making of “Thomas Hoccleve”\u003cbr\u003e5. Hoccleve’s Eucharist\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Matter of Hocclevian Influence     \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470046564695,"sku":"9781789628067","price":32.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789628067.jpg?v=1744897233","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thomas-hoccleve-religious-reform-transnational-poetics-and-the-invention-of-chaucer-9781789628067","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}