Following the advice of my colleague Olivia Wood, I’ve decided to blog about the contents of my orals lists as I read. I haven’t decided yet whether everything will make it up here, nor whether the contents will stay public after I’m done, but we’ll see. For this week, I read The Book of Margery… Continue reading Despayr in Margery Kempe and Rosenwein
Year: 2020
Translation of Hoccleve’s “Ballades to Henry Somer”
I am very pleased to announce that the Hoccleve Society has published my translation of Thomas Hoccleve’s “Ballades to Henry Somer”, a series of letter-poems in Middle English written in the early fifteenth century to Sir Henry Somer, an Exchequer clerk and later deputy treasurer who eventually became Chancellor of the Exchequer. This translation aims… Continue reading Translation of Hoccleve’s “Ballades to Henry Somer”