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.”
VI International Congress of the John Gower Society
29 June – 2 July, 2026, University of Alicante, Spain
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UPDATED 05/2025
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.
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 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.