VI International Congress of the John Gower Society 2026

JGS Congress

email VI International Congress of the John Gower Society29 June – 2 July 2026 “GOWER SEA TO SEA: ATLANTIC TO MEDITERRANEAN”   The VI International Congress of the John Gower Society will take place 29 June – 2 July 2026 and will be hosted by the University...

John Gower’s Traitié

Scholarship, Works

John Gower’s Traitié (Traitié Selonc Les Auctours Pour Essampler Les Amantz Marietz) Edited and Translated by Peter Nicholson From the Introduction: “The Traitié is Gower’s defense of marriage. In form, it is virtually unprecedented, offering its argument...

John Gower’s Cinkante Balades

Scholarship

John Gower’s Cinkante Balades Edited and Translated by Peter Nicholson From the Introduction: “Together with his own Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, Gower’s Cinkante Balades contain the only surviving ballades in French by a medieval English...

Online Gower Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Online Teaching, Teaching Materials

Gower Manuscripts Hosted by the John Gower Society Additional 59495 (aka the Trentham Manuscript) In Praise of Peace and the Cinkante Balades. Wilson Library Rare Book Collection, UNC Chapel Hill Incunabula 532.5 Caxton edition of the Confessio Amantis.  Complete or...