Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. R.D. PERRY is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. LAURIE ATKINSON is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsNote on QuotationsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Hoccleve Then and Now, Jenni Nuttall and David Watt Part I: Form in Context1 Historicising Hoccleve's Metre, Nicholas Myklebust2 Speech Acts and Conversation in the Series, A. Arwen Taylor3 Hoccleve and the Logic of Incompleteness, R. D. Perry4 A 'troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge': Hoccleve's Nearly-Dream Poem, Laurie Atkinson Part II: Reading Life5 Hoccleve's Series and the Unanticipated Woman Reader, Michelle Ripplinger6 Hoccleve, Swelling and Bursting, Spencer Strub7 'Ransakid' by Death: Body, Soul and Image in Hoccleve's 'Learn to Die', Stephanie Trigg Part III: Writing Life8 Hoccleve's Formulary and the Matter of Everyday Life, Mel Cowdery9 Hoccleve's Feet: The Kinaesthetic Imaginary in Hoccleve's Writings, Helen M. Hickey10 Curatorial Hoccleve: Spiritual and Codicological Illumination in the Regiment of Princes, Ruen-chuan Ma11 Reading Through: Major/Minor Hoccleve, Sebastian J. Langdell Index

Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. R.D. PERRY is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. LAURIE ATKINSON is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsNote on QuotationsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Hoccleve Then and Now, Jenni Nuttall and David Watt Part I: Form in Context1 Historicising Hoccleve's Metre, Nicholas Myklebust2 Speech Acts and Conversation in the Series, A. Arwen Taylor3 Hoccleve and the Logic of Incompleteness, R. D. Perry4 A 'troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge': Hoccleve's Nearly-Dream Poem, Laurie Atkinson Part II: Reading Life5 Hoccleve's Series and the Unanticipated Woman Reader, Michelle Ripplinger6 Hoccleve, Swelling and Bursting, Spencer Strub7 'Ransakid' by Death: Body, Soul and Image in Hoccleve's 'Learn to Die', Stephanie Trigg Part III: Writing Life8 Hoccleve's Formulary and the Matter of Everyday Life, Mel Cowdery9 Hoccleve's Feet: The Kinaesthetic Imaginary in Hoccleve's Writings, Helen M. Hickey10 Curatorial Hoccleve: Spiritual and Codicological Illumination in the Regiment of Princes, Ruen-chuan Ma11 Reading Through: Major/Minor Hoccleve, Sebastian J. Langdell Index

Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. R.D. PERRY is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. LAURIE ATKINSON is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsNote on QuotationsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Hoccleve Then and Now, Jenni Nuttall and David Watt Part I: Form in Context1 Historicising Hoccleve's Metre, Nicholas Myklebust2 Speech Acts and Conversation in the Series, A. Arwen Taylor3 Hoccleve and the Logic of Incompleteness, R. D. Perry4 A 'troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge': Hoccleve's Nearly-Dream Poem, Laurie Atkinson Part II: Reading Life5 Hoccleve's Series and the Unanticipated Woman Reader, Michelle Ripplinger6 Hoccleve, Swelling and Bursting, Spencer Strub7 'Ransakid' by Death: Body, Soul and Image in Hoccleve's 'Learn to Die', Stephanie Trigg Part III: Writing Life8 Hoccleve's Formulary and the Matter of Everyday Life, Mel Cowdery9 Hoccleve's Feet: The Kinaesthetic Imaginary in Hoccleve's Writings, Helen M. Hickey10 Curatorial Hoccleve: Spiritual and Codicological Illumination in the Regiment of Princes, Ruen-chuan Ma11 Reading Through: Major/Minor Hoccleve, Sebastian J. Langdell Index