Thomas Hoccleve and Manuscript Culture

Author / Editor
Thompson, John J.

Title
Thomas Hoccleve and Manuscript Culture

Published
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 81-94.

Description
Examines Hoccleve's relations with the London book trade and the Lancastrian court to explain how his verse "managed to leak so successfully" into the Chaucer tradition. Hoccleve's manuscripts reflect his autobiographical self-fashioning and his associations with Chaucer.

Alternative Title
Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.