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'Langdell convincingly moves his rehabilitation forward with this thoughtful, wide-ranging and learned reassessment.' Jane Roberts, The Review of English Studies 'The emphasis on Hoccleve's influence in the conclusion, while quickly spelled out here, is of great importance and will hopefully serve to inspire other scholars; in particular, using Hoccleve's religious identity to connect him with Lydgate-specifically to the Life of Our Lady-is a promising avenue of research that many others may want to pursue, and thank Langdell as they do.' R. D. Perry, Speculum 'For nearly 40 years Thomas Hoccleve toiled at the Privy Seal, a professional scribe stooping and staring 'upon the sheepes skyn' [...] Langdell convincingly moves his rehabilitation forward with this thoughtful, wide-ranging and learned reassessment.' Jane Roberts, The Review of English Studies

'The emphasis on Hoccleve's influence in the conclusion, while quickly spelled out here, is of great importance and will hopefully serve to inspire other scholars; in particular, using Hoccleve's religious identity to connect him with Lydgate-specifically to the Life of Our Lady-is a promising avenue of research that many others may want to pursue, and thank Langdell as they do.' R. D. Perry, Speculum 'For nearly 40 years Thomas Hoccleve toiled at the Privy Seal, a professional scribe stooping and staring 'upon the sheepes skyn' [...] Langdell convincingly moves his rehabilitation forward with this thoughtful, wide-ranging and learned reassessment.' Jane Roberts, The Review of English Studies

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Sebastian J. Langdell is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Baylor University. He is the author of Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer (LUP 2018) and a founding member of the International Hoccleve Society. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in: New Medieval Literatures, Medium Aevum, Augustinian Studies, The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches, and the Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature.

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