MacDonald, Paul S.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003.
Includes a chapter entitled "Mind and Soul in English from Chaucer to Shakespeare" (pp. 245-78) that surveys the denotations and connotations of the words "soul" and "mind," with examples drawn a range of authors, including Chaucer.
Together, Chaucer's two references to the Alexandrian crusade in CT, along with his portrait of the Knight and depictions of Custance and the Sultaness in MLT, expose similarities between missionary work and crusading. The Knight's participation in…
Ovitt, George,Jr.
Mark Amsler, ed. Creativity and the Imagination: Case Studies from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987): pp. 34-58.
Written for "Lyte Lowys" (Chaucer's son), Astr is a concise, brilliant translation of Masha'allah's "De compositione et utilitate astrolabii." Chaucer best displays his comprehension in his definitions of the equinoctial. Although written for a…
Batt, Catherine.
Catherine Batt, ed. Essays on Thomas Hoccleve ([Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 55-84.
Examines the "defense-of-women" section near the end of Hoccleve's "Regiment" (lines 5090-194) as a meditation on literary influence and the need for the poet to comment on political issues. The defense alludes to the Wife of Bath and to…
Burrow, J. A.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp. 54-61.
Hoccleve, a personal acquaintance of Chaucer, received personal instruction from Chaucer in the art of English poetry. Hoccleve remains firmly subordinated to his master poet of imaginary worlds, but his distinctive strength is his being "a poet of…
Burrow, John.
Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 35-49.
Although Hoccleve's poetry is in many ways "at a further remove than Chaucer from French formal models," some features of his verse suggest a "closer affinity," especially the holograph manuscripts that can be seen as single-author "collected poems."
Lehr, John.
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 243-82.
Compares the multilingual conditions of late-medieval England with modern conditions in Korea, Kenya, and Quebec. Then argues that Hoccleve's poetic career resulted from Lancastrian encouragement of a national English language imitating Chaucer's…
Krochalis, Jeanne E.
Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 234-45.
Hoccleve's request for a portrait (supplied in the Harley 4866 MS of "The Regement of Princes") is something new: the author's likenesses had heretofore been stylized. Hoccleve's lines (4992-5012) place Chaucer in a holy or ecclesiastical setting. …
Nafde, Aditi.
Journal of the Early Book Society 16 (2013): 55-83.
Compares Chaucer's and Hoccleve's manuscripts in terms of authorial control, contrasting the "muddle of disparate exemplars" of CT with Hoccleve's detailed attention to format. Specifically contrasts Hoccleve's "mid-stanza paraph" in his autograph…
Surveys the reception of Hoccleve's poetry and argues that its "autobiographical self-presentation" underlines its differences from Chaucer's influential precedent. Hoccleve also introduces innovative themes and topics: madness, alienation, and…
Argues that the autobiographical portion of Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes" and its "praise and portrait" of Chaucer indicate that the poem is part of a broader "program of kingly self-representation" undertaken by Henry, Prince of Wales, who…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
Perkins examines the narrative strategies Hoccleve adopts--advisor, servant, court outsider, autobiographer, moralist, petitioner--as responses to the politically charged context of "Lancastrian poetry." This study identifies the political context in…
Emphasizes Chaucer's influences on Hoccleve, paying special attention to ClT as an intertext with Hoccleve's "Letter," where Hoccleve appears rather misogynist. Yet, in the "Series," harkening back to his "Letter," Hoccleve seems to ridicule his…
Mitchell, Jerome.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 275-83.
Contends that "there is no clear, indisputable evidence" of a personal relationship between Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve in the latter's "Regement of Princes." His praise of Chaucer in that poem is evocative but generally conventional, and there is…
Sugito, Hisashi.
Bulletin of the Society for Chaucer Studies 7 (2019): 3-12.
Points out thematic parallels between Hoccleve's "Male regle" and PardT, such as "riot and repentance" and "misreading" of "the material and the spiritual," and argues that Hoccleve succeeds in taking in Chaucerian literary resources to make his…
Strohm, Paul. With an appendix by A. J. Prescott.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
An introduction and seven essays explore the mutual contingency of history and literature in late-medieval England. The collection interprets historical texts for contemporary attitudes and ideologies, discovering, for example, the "carnivalesque"…
Brodie, Alexander H.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72 (1971): 62-68.
Explicates details and images of the Cook in ManP to argue for a "three-fold elaboration": the besotted Cook is a "victim of obsession with drink" who exhibits the pallor of the love-lorn knight which is also the paleness of the alchemical…
Medieval courtly literature must be seen as a reflection of the chivalric ideal. The chivalric ideal in England was less integrated than on the Continent because it was the ideal of an alien Norman aristocracy. Native English landowners were…
Surveys critiques of court culture in English writing from John of Salisbury to Edmund Spenser; includes discussion of (pp. 124-36) of NPT as a moral-satirical narrative.
Kaylor, Noel Harold, (Jr.)
Medieval English Studies 8: 95-114, 2000.
Relates the structure of TC (with Troilus's happiness reaching its apex at the numerical center of the poem) to structures found in Dante's "Commedia" (Divine Comedy) and to themes of fortune's changes in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy."
A study of the representation of animals in late-medieval literature, focusing on how human identity is defined in relation to animals. Using examples from late-medieval hagiography and romance, Salter argues that medieval writers reflect on their…
Surveys the "traditions of preaching theory that Chaucer drew on in creating his Parson and Pardoner," focusing on the preacher's paradoxical "persona," the relationship between the "person" and the "office," and the use of the physical body in the…
