'Oure Fadres Olde and Modres' : Gender, Heresy, and Hoccleve's Literary Politics

Author / Editor
NisseĢ, Ruth.

Title
'Oure Fadres Olde and Modres' : Gender, Heresy, and Hoccleve's Literary Politics

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 275-99, 1999.

Description
In his "Regement of Princes" and "Address to Oldcastle," Hoccleve seeks to assert a revival of chivalry as a means of recovering from the degeneracy of the reign of Henry IV. In doing so, he champions "father" Chaucer's orthodoxy and presents Chaucerian reading "as a kind of chivalric practice that directly counters the feminine Lollard program of translation and interpretation" (p. 278)

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.