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”