Mark your calendars for the second Hoccleve at Home event of 2024:
Daniel Davies (University of Houston)
“Thomas Hoccleve and the English War State”
Monday, April 15
1pm Central (2pm Eastern, 7pm GMT) on Zoom
The impact of Thomas Hoccleve’s work in the Privy Seal has long been recognized as shaping his poetry. But what of his labor supporting the English war state? As one of the many bureaucrats who facilitated war through labor that paid soldiers, secured ordinances, issued safe conducts, and instructed military commanders, among other things, war for Hoccleve was an everyday part of his work. I will locate Hoccleve’s career in the Privy Seal within the landscape of England’s late-medieval wars in France, Wales, and Scotland, before considering pathways between Hoccleve’s wartime labor and his poetry.
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