International John Gower Society
The John Gower Society (JGS) is dedicated to the study of the 14th-century poet John Gower. The Society promotes and encourages this study in several ways:
- by disseminating and supporting scholarship related to John Gower;
- by promoting the teaching of John Gower;
- by organizing and publicizing events related to the study and teaching of Gower’s works;
- by publicly recognizing, through the annual John Hurt Fisher Award, “significant contributions to the field of John Gower studies.”
V International Gower Congress
2023 University of St. Andrews, Scotland
UPDATED 06/2023
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William Caxton’s 1483 edition of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
UNC-Chapel Hill Incunabula 532.5, fol. 7r
Permission courtesy of Rare Book Collection
Wilson Special Collections Library
The Online Gower Bibliography
The John Gower Bibliography Online (JGBO) is a joint effort of the John Gower Society and The University of Texas at San Antonio Library.
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The John Gower Society hosts manuscript and early book images, original scholarship, and other materials related to the study and teaching of Gower’s works and his influence.