Call for Papers: International Hoccleve Society at Leeds IMC 2021

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International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2021

Special Thematic Strand: Climates

International Hoccleve Sponsored Session

 

‘What world is this, how vndirstande am I?’

(Thomas Hoccleve, Dialogue with a Friend, 774)

 

Climates of reception hostile and propitious are a recurrent feature in the poetry of Thomas Hoccleve. His dialogues with imagined interlocutors, envoys addressed to real and imagined readers, and presentation of his poems in autograph manuscripts provide tantalising evidence of the historical and material circumstances for Hoccleve’s reception, as well as the currents of patronage and socio-literary systems which he was interested to evoke. The history of Hoccleve criticism, especially the remarkable increase in critical interest over the last few decades, is all the more indicative of shifting climates of reception for Hoccleve’s multifaceted career; how Hoccleve was and is understood is now a lively and wide-ranging scholarly conversation.

The International Hoccleve Society (IHS) is pleased to invite proposals for a sponsored session at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2021. The special thematic focus of the Congress is ‘Climates’, and the IHS is particularly interested in papers addressing ‘climates’ of reception in Hoccleve’s writings, their witnesses, and his critical heritage. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Narratives of reception in Hoccleve’s writings
  •                 Hoccleve’s readers, real and imagined
  • Reviewing Hoccleve’s milieu in light of recent biographical discoveries
  • Hoccleve’s political and/or ecclesiological investments
  • Situating Hoccleve in manuscript and early print
  • Antiquarian interest in Hoccleve
  • Recent trends in Hoccleve criticism

 

The deadline for proposals has now been extended. To propose a paper, please send an abstract of maximum 250 words with your name and affiliation to laurie.r.atkinson@durham.ac.uk by 11 September 2020.

 

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