stela
stela or stele (plural: stelae or steles) (Greek: ‘standing block’). An upright slab, usually of stone, that serves as a grave marker or other monument. The term is chiefly applied to the ancient Mediterranean world (particularly classical Greece), but similar objects are found in many other times and places. Greek grave stelae were sometimes plain, but by the 6th century
bc they were often carved or painted.
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Thomas Hoccleve's 'Mother of God' and 'Balade to the Virgin and Christ': Latin and Anglo-Norman sources.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...appreciation has been turning in favour of Thomas Hoccleve's poetry in recent decades...scholars to write more positively of Hoccleve's work than had been customary...1968.(1) Two selections of Hoccleve's verse are now available in...
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Thomas Hoccleve's seal.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...fascinating article, 'Some new light on Thomas Hoccleve', Linne Mooney has added enormously to our knowledge of Hoccleve's bureaucratic career by identifying...appropriately, illustrated from Hoccleve's own work. Perhaps the clearest...
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'Manly cowardyse': Thomas Hoccleve's peace strategy.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...boundaries of political discourse in Hoccleve's work. Charles Blyth says of The...Yet despite continuing interest in Hoccleve's poetry of identity, many have seen...open critique of Lancastrian policy, as Hoccleve himself admits, (4) it has often been...
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Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2000; 504 words
; Hoccleve, Thomas. Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue. Ed. J.A. Burrow. (Early English...is with the restoration of the text of the first two poems in Thomas Hoccleve's series of early fifteenth-century linked writings, now...
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Thomas Hoccleve: `My Compleinte' and Other Poems.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...pounds sterling] (p/b). The booming Hoccleve industry has recently produced editions...my gloomy interlocutor warned that Hoccleve is `in danger of becoming the new Margery...the manuscript rubric (albeit not in Hoccleve's own hand here) carefully, and significantly...
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Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...In this first book-length study of Hoccleve's literary career in over thirty years...T. F. Tout, the argument connects Hoccleve's distinctive autobiography with the...petitionary address. His profession placed Hoccleve outside the traditional bounds of clerical...
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"I am al othir to yow than yee weene": Hoccleve, women, and the 'Series.' (Thomas Hoccleve)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...later, the English Chaucerian Thomas Hoccleve produced an adaptation of the...the author of those texts, "Thomas Hoccleve," and an unnamed Friend. In...that Dialogue, the Friend chides Thomas for having offended women "in...
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Essays on Thomas Hoccleve.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Chaucer's Chain of Love. By PAUL BEEKMAN TAYLOR. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1996. 215 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. The opening chapters of Paul Beekman Taylor's book offer a rich and illuminating guide to the concept of the chain of
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'Your ensaumple and your mirour': hoccleve's amplification of the imagery and intimacy of Henry Suso's Ars Moriendi.(Thomas Hoccleve)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...section held particular appeal for clerk of the Privy Seal Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426). Translating Suso's treatise on the...two substances, but the one is in the other'. (10) Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274), like Eckhart a student...
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Thomas A. Prendergast, Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Thomas A. Prendergast, Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus (New York...translations' of Chaucer which result. Such complexity is seen from Hoccleve and Lydgate lamenting but requiring the death of the 'master' they succeed...
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Thomas Hoccleve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Hoccleve , c.1368-c.1450, English poet, an imitator of Chaucer. He was...virtues and vices of a ruler, was addressed to the future King Henry V. Hoccleve's main importance is historical. His typically medieval lyrics to...
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Hoccleve, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Hoccleve, Thomas (or Thomas Occleve ), (?1369–1426), apart from Lydgate the...describes the events of his own life, in ‘La Male Regle de Thomas Hoccleve’, the prologue to The Regiment of Princes (1411...
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Thomas Occleve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Occleve see Hoccleve, Thomas .
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...forms is considerable, as is his influence on writers from Hoccleve, Lydgate , and the ‘Scottish Chaucerians’...Philippa Roet, with whom he probably had two sons, Lewis and Thomas, was also in royal service. Chaucer's specific assignments...
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