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What Does Normal Look Like?

Medievalists.net — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:59:43 +0000

Thomas Hoccleve was a fifteenth-century clerk and poet who suffered a mental breakdown around 1416. In his poem, which we now call Hoccleve's Compleint, he describes his depression and anxiety about not being able to convince his friends and co-workers that he has recovered.

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Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great: Tracing the Literary Zeitgeist from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

Medievalists.net — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:45:48 +0000

My purpose here is to examine how English writers viewed and depicted these men in poetry, prose, and drama, beginning in medieval England and on through the Renaissance, in search of a pattern. In all ways, a society or culture is in a constant state of change.

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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature

Medievalists.net — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:33:22 +0000

Madness has been long misrepresented in medieval studies. Assertions that conceptions of mental illness were unknown to medieval people, or that all madmen were assumed to be possessed by the devil, were at one time common in accounts of medieval society.

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“Be waar, Hoccleue, I rede thee”: Intertextual Subjectivity in Thomas Hoccleve’s Petitioning Poetry

Medievalists.net — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:20:37 +0000

The way these operate can be seen in the section of La Male Regle from which I excerpted my paper’s title. It comes about three-quarters of the way through the poem when the narrator relates a first-hand account of how he and his Privy-Seal Office colleagues handle a night of drinking.

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New website: Late Medieval English Scribes

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:51:06 +0000

Researchers from the universities of York, Oxford and Sheffield have created a new website that aims to identifying the scribes who made the first copies of works by major authors of the 14th and early 15th centuries, including Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland. Late Medieval English Scribes is an online catalogue of all scribal hands […]

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The medieval English begging poem

Medievalists.net — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:31:28 +0000

The medieval English begging poem By Dave Henderson PhD Dissertation, University of Missouri, 2008 Abstract: Since the only consistent feature of medieval English begging poems is the fact that they beg, usually for funds due, the form cannot quite be considered a genre. However, the relationships between poets and patrons that provide motivation for the […]

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