Offers a significant new reading of the late medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve , illustrating Hoccleve\'s role in recasting Chaucer as a figure of intellectual and moral authority, and situating Hoccleve - and the nascent English literary tradition - firmly in the context of heresy and Religious reform..
Offers a significant new reading of the late medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve , illustrating Hoccleve\'s role in recasting Chaucer as a figure of intellectual and moral authority, and situating Hoccleve - and the nascent English literary tradition - firmly in the context of heresy and Religious reform.