By Thomas A. Prendergast
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Nicholas Brigham’s residence (The Almonry) is number 44. Copyright: Dean and Chapter of Westminster. ”24 This expulsion from the visible to the invisible and from the material to the transcendent would suggest that the reinhumation of Chaucer’s body was an attempt to put an end to the Protestant nachleben of a poet who was, after all, Catholic. If we wish to see an analogous situation in the Middle Ages, we might remember how, as Paul Strohm has recently noted, the corpse of Richard II occupied precisely this liminal position between his death and initial burial in 1400 and his reburial in 1413.
It is, in fact, precisely this difference which betrays how Hoccleve really benefits from this exchange. For even as the Prince spends his father’s image and lays claim to the ineffable power which lies in that image, the reception of that money by Hoccleve goes far beyond its ability to be exchanged for other things. 65 What legitimates the worth of money is that it has a transcendent value: to counterfeit the base matter which holds the symbolic place of money is to treat money as if it has no transcendent value.
The symbolic ability to control the absence and presence of the poet purportedly makes the loss of Chaucer more bearable. ”35 Chaucer’s transformation from live poet to dead symbol might 26 • CHAUCER’S DEAD BODY then be seen as a kind of homicide. For it is in the attempt to master that which has already happened (Chaucer’s death) that Lydgate lays claim to a kind of postmortem agency in the death of Chaucer by transforming lack or absence (that which, for Lydgate, was missing) into a narrative of personal loss.