Comments about Thomas Hoccleve
Click to write a comment about Thomas Hoccleve
bruenxmsb: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) UX40EIZ
ButterfieldBB: “Man, walke at large out of thi prisoun.” — Thomas Hoccleve
smitham1paq: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) VXIIGMV
schaden10pflsl: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) N1OC1Q6
lindaoyhh: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) SXB3P5W
javier21_c: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) SRK6URK
savior_cinco: I read Thomas Hoccleve's autobiographical poem, 'My Compleinte' today. What a sad and beautiful piece of writing from the 15th century.
mcglynnilf: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) ELYFAO8
botsford82ihn: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) ARNSIDD
Webster3111: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) BTLUU0I
eatthatbee: This is essentially Thomas Hoccleve
LeopoldoChris13: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) NSVLPOY
eatthatbee: Honestly getting shades of fifteenth century scribe and poet Thomas Hoccleve:
LemuelDeckow: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) [MEMV5KJ]
Laura8500368166: Thomas Hoccleve: The Regiment of Princes (TEAMS Middle English Texts) [HA1WAUM]
AustinAni: New e-text at Luminarium:
The Tale of Jonathas, by Thomas Hoccleve, a disciple of Chaucer.
ardentsaviorops: English poet Thomas Hoccleve, a contemporary of this man, called him the firste fyndere of our fair langage
8286ac0e4777ecc2
cathalDON1: In a century full of religious and historical poetry, only Thomas Hoccleve was brave enough to ask: What if a poem was about a guy having a rough aul time of it?
ButhamMuthyalu: Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Complaint’.
After that hervest Inned had his sheves
and that the broune season of myhelmess
was come and gan the trees robbe of ther leves
That grene had bene and in lusty fresshness
and them in-to colowre of yelowness
hadd dyne and doune throwne vndar foote
Medieval_Ragbag: 【9月刊】Jennifer Nuttall & David Watt, eds, "Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches" (Boydell & Brewer, Sep 2022)
Stylisticienne: One more day to perfect my modernisation of Hoccleve's Dialogue, and then I really must get on with the index for Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches. I hope TH might have admitted me into the Court of Good Company for all this labour on his behalf!
Stylisticienne: The 15thC poet Thomas Hoccleve (in my modernisation) on the pessimism of age:
I’m more gloomy now in a single day
Than I used to be in five days.
Those things which beforehand
Seemed to me game and play
Feel in earnest now. The honey leaves
The hive of my spirit so very quickly
TweetEveryYear: 1426: Thomas Hoccleve died, Christian I of Denmark born. Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies of the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade in the Battle of Usti nad Labem. King Janus of Cyprus is defeated in the Battle of Chirokitia and captured by the Mamluks and brought to Egypt
KUEnglish: Congrats to Professor Misty Schieberle, winner of the 2022 University Scholarly Achievement Award!
While analyzing works by Christine de Pizan, Schieberle rocked the world of medieval studies by discovering a new manuscript copied by poet Thomas Hoccleve.
clintmorrisonjr: I really just want to be a narrative designer on either an Arthurian or Thomas Hoccleve video game.
danielmacho20: Download Kindle Hoccleve's Works by F.J. Furnivall, Israel Gollancz, Thomas Hoccleve
Stylisticienne: Finishing touches to a book today. Not my book (I have a whole two weeks left to finish that!) but a collection of new critical essays on the poet Thomas Hoccleve
Jennifer_deG: So apparently that dude is named Thomas Hoccleve
LeVostreGC: Thomas Hoccleve on the broccoli
fionalillian_: also eternal shoutout to transcription software for rendering Thomas Hoccleve and Margery Kempe as.... Thomas Hotplate and Marjorie Camp. new drag duo when
george_r_t_c: One of my roommates is a web content strategist — page layout and information architecture stuff — and I have taken great pleasure in telling her that the medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve, author of an extensive formulary of text templates, was also a content strategist.
THoccleve: I am Thomas Hoccleve, Lyfe Coache; and I have more advice to help you!
This Monday, we take on sleep--is yours too good?
Follow my tips on Instagram & I can help you turn your well-balanced bodily humors and love for humanity into valuable alone time.
THoccleve: Thomas Hoccleve, Lyfe Coache, has just posted his 5 best tips for snagging a free beta reader.
Read about it here on Instagram.
ericweiskott: disabled by social anxiety, acutely self-conscious, assailed by periods of dissociation, grinding out a government desk job, eager to please, modest to the point of self-effacement. . .
Thomas Hoccleve, 15th-century Clerk of the Privy Seal, is truly the poet we need right now
george_r_t_c: Posting “Thomas Hoccleve had Havana Syndrome” in medieval literature tutorial Zoom chat in order to cause the program to malfunction and eject everyone
ThePhilJohn: I love the enthusiasm ! And, they’re right, this is an excellent page chock full of good advice for princes and non-princes alike to take heed of. Thomas Hoccleve’s “The Regiment of Princes”, Case MS 33.7
KarlSteel: Thomas Hoccleve Ate Chaucer
BLMedieval: Recognise this figure? It's none other than Geoffrey Chaucer, as depicted in a manuscript of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes.
This is the earliest known image of Chaucer, who is shown with an inkhorn round his neck and holding a rosary in one hand.
BridgetWhearty: In my favorite Middle English words list
“unbuxom” and “unbuxomhed” are definitely up there.
Thoughts brought to you by editing Thomas Hoccleve references in chapter 1.
ardentsaviorops: English poet Thomas Hoccleve, a contemporary of this man, called him the firste fyndere of our fair langage
8286ac0e4777ecc2
SebSobecki: Open Access! My article on Thomas Hoccleve and the handwriting of 15th-century Privy Seal and Council clerks is now freely available under open access from the Review of English Studies:
SebSobecki: Open Access! My article on Thomas Hoccleve and the handwriting of 15th-century Privy Seal and Council clerks is now freely available under open access from the Review of English Studies:
wlwverine: rip thomas hoccleve, rip love. you would’ve loved therapy and/or medication
jesbattis: Reminder that I'm giving a talk on March 26th about queer magic, medievalism, and neurodiversity. All welcome! Come by if you're interested in:
- nonbinary wizards
- cat magic
- Thomas Hoccleve losing his sh*t
- Terry Pratchett
- Merlin's pet pig
aniciuserra: Thomas Hoccleve is a really good read. Try to get yourself some of his stuff without any textual modernisation.
kittenry: though i've seen none of "schitt's creek," this is a strong contender for my new favorite quiz. i immediately searched for podcasts about thomas hoccleve and found one. how, in 2020, is there only one podcast episode about anything? internet, do better.
MandyLHughes: I got You are Moira Rose, a werewolf, and Thomas Hoccleve - Everybody is a Mix of a Schitts Creek Character, A Classic Monster, and a Medieval Author. Which Are You?
TJWest3: This checks out.
I got You are Moira Rose, a werewolf, and Thomas Hoccleve - Everybody is a Mix of a Schitts Creek Character, A Classic Monster, and a Medieval Author. Which Are You?
Tweetistorian: That's an old metaphor...it goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks (at least). And pre-modern English had it too.
For example, the 15th C. poet Thomas Hoccleve complained about writer's block by noting that his thoughts were "slipir as an eel." 3/14
doctormoffett: 15th: Thomas Hoccleve
SebSobecki: Here's the hand of John Offord, Privy Seal clerk & colleague of Thomas Hoccleve. He executes an elegant Secretary script, even in short letters. Privy Seal clerks were trilingual, & Offord's hand shines not in English or Latin but in French! For more, see
LivUniPress: Sebastian J. Langdell's Thomas Hoccleve is now available in paperback. Find out more on the LUP website:
NobodyLikedThat: And finally!
It's my boy Thomas Hoccleve, My Complaint (after 1399?)
Stylisticienne: Image in the first tweet, fol. 65 of British Library MS Arundel 38 (Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes), a missed stanza being rescued from the margin by a knotted rope
LeVostreGC: Thomas Hoccleve ys runninge a Tom Stoppards Arcadia tabeltoppe rpg. Ich am gettinge readye by makinge two charactirs, one for each tyme period. Hopinge one of them doth get either the 'chaos theorye' or 'satirical couplets' perke. Lookinge forward to the grouse minigame.
SebSobecki: 2: The Series: Thomas Hoccleve's Year of Mourning
Reveals new life record linking Hoccleve to village of Hockliffe; offers interpretation of The Series as a mourning sequence for John Bailey; demonstrates cogent calendar structure of The Series. 4/7
Stylisticienne: May I present the face of my favourite poet, Thomas Hoccleve, at least as imagined by John Thurston in 1820 for Cornwall's Effigies Poeticae
Stylisticienne: Rain can come in a SHOWRE or, more poetically, in REDELES, in curtains
The 15thC poet Thomas Hoccleve describes misfortune raining on him like a sudden downpour:
‘the derke showre hildyd [poured] downe right on me’
SlGMAKLIM: man I could do a full tweet thread abt stupid anglo Saxon and medievalist shit I swear...Thomas Hoccleve’s poetry is some of the oldest representation of what we now consider to be major depressive disorder and he was writing in the 15th century
ActualOphelia: Thomas Hoccleve, La Male Regle, lines 281-2.
Stylisticienne: Thomas Hoccleve, writing in 1410/11, captures catastrophising:
'Upon this woful thoght I hakke and hewe
And muse so that unto lyte I madde'
[I hack and chop at this depressing thought and ruminate so that I nearly go mad]
aobate: someone translated Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint" in the voice of "The Return of Martin Fierro" and I understand that there is literally no audience for this tweet but personally I find it jarring
sarahwilson821: writing the final words of my dissertation and saying to myself aloud, "god I just love Thomas Hoccleve so much"
ericweiskott: can't wait for the Roaring Twenties (the 1420s):
- Henry V set to inherit French throne
- Thomas Hoccleve recovers from mental breakdown, writes his worst poem
- Henry V dies
edinhist: Studying medieval British history during my degree, I was assigned the Minor Poems of Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Hoccleve - and amongst them was this one, utterly vivid moment to keep from the whole life of of 14th century London -
gingertedwards: I had not heard of Thomas Hoccleve, but glad of Twitter to bring him to attention. He disproves anyone who arrogantly dismisses any mental health issue as some kind modern, self indulgent phenomenon.
HoccleveSociety: What Does Normal Look Like? | Stephanie Trigg | TEDxSydney
heytheredylilah: F.65 of the Arundel Ms. 38 of Middle English poet Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes
I just love how the scribe didn’t leave himself enough room to finish the verses needed on the page so we get this fun manuscript art
meganlcook: I want a piece of historical fiction from the POV of Thomas Hoccleve's wife. Love match or not, he seems like he'd have been a difficult person to be married to.
LivUniPress: Review of Thomas Hoccleve by Sebastian J. Langdell from The Review of English Studies
DE_Sawyer: Sebastian Langdell, Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer
LivUniPress: Review of Thomas Hoccleve by Sebastian J. Langdell from Speculum
ineptdotjpeg: i trust 1 man and it's thomas hoccleve
the_emilyap: Thinking about Thomas Hoccleve...
litfests: A University of Kansas scholar has just identified one of the most important British authors between Chaucer and Shakespeare, Thomas Hoccleve, as the man who wrote a book held in the British national library collection for centuries.
ChasCoLibrary: A University of Kansas scholar discovered a manuscript in the British Library that was handwritten by Thomas Hoccleve, one of the major English poets of the 15th century.
anoldschoolgirl: "The first foundere of oure faire langage"
-- Thomas Hoccleve on Chaucer
sometimes our typos take the form of medieval English
LivUniPress: ‘Langdell convincingly moves his rehabilitation forward with this thoughtful, wide-ranging and learned reassessment.’ Review of Thomas Hoccleve by Sebastian J. Langdell, from The Review of English Studies
DanielWakelin1: Exciting article by Misty Schieberle in Review of English Studies about a manuscript copied by Thomas Hoccleve:
BLMedieval: Breaking manuscript news! Misty Schieberle has identified the handwriting of the famous Middle English poet Thomas Hoccleve in our C15th manuscript, Harley MS 219:
ericweiskott: Thomas Hoccleve
Hocclevefanboy: Medieval English poets who would be a fan of Elizabeth Warren’s debt reduction plan:
Thomas Hoccleve
Not in favor: Gower, Chaucer, Langland
BLMedieval: Is this a realistic likeness of Geoffrey Chaucer?
This portrait is found in the margins of a manuscript of Thomas…
LeVostreGC: Lat us hear yt for Thomas Hoccleve. RT to gyve Hoccleve a hug and a kynde worde.
THoccleve: Get to knowe me!
THoccleve: Thomas Hoccleve by Kelsey Stegall-Smith on Prezi
VeraCausa9: Marginal figure of man pulling w/ a rope encircling part of text that was mistakenly omitted-Thomas Hoccleve 'De Re...
theycallmesalva: "Byforne, I tooke, sleep cam noon in myn ye, / So vexid me the thoughtful maladie." - Thomas Hoccleve
ericweiskott: Tomorrow I'm teaching Thomas Hoccleve, everyone's favorite socially anxious 14th-century bureaucrat....
Stylisticienne: Occurs to me I need to write MY "Making of Thomas Hoccleve" abstract (being somewhat distracted by the draft grant app. for the whole thing)
canMedievalists: Call for Papers: The Making of Thomas Hoccleve, University of Manitoba, July 6-8, 2018
Stylisticienne: Two weeks left to get your paper/session proposals in for 'The Making of Thomas Hoccleve' conference in Winnipeg, C...
AHumanTale: Taken from Thomas Hoccleve, Regement of Princes, Arundel 38, f. 37. Held and digitised by the British Library.
DebsEThorpe: Furnivall (1892) on the wonderful Thomas Hoccleve: "We wish he had been a better poet and a manlier fellow..."
SemenPavlov3333: English works of John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve and most of Caxton's prints all find their place in the publications. Without EETS editions10
SemenPavlov3333: English works of John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve and most of Caxton's prints all find their place in the publications. Without EETS editions9
SemenPavlov3333: English works of John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve and most of Caxton's prints all find their place in the publications. Without EETS editions8
SemenPavlov3333: English works of John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve and most of Caxton's prints all find their place in the publications. Without EETS editions7
SemenPavlov3333: English works of John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve and most of Caxton's prints all find their place in the publications. Without EETS editions6
SemenPavlov3333: English works of John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve and most of Caxton's prints all find their place in the publications. Without EETS editions5
