Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer

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 t...