V International Congress of the John Gower Society 2023

JGS Congress

“Gower in Contexts: His Words, His Books, His Heritage”University of St. Andrews, Scotland6-11 July, 2023 CALL FOR PAPERSProposals Due 1 Sept. 2022 Originally scheduled for 2020 at the University of Notre Dame (and cancelled due to the global pandemic), the V...

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...

Teaching Online for Medievalists – Video Seminar – June 2020

Online Teaching, Teaching Materials

The following “virtual seminar” on teaching online for medievalists focuses upon some basic tactics for online pedagogy, especially course design. While it does not focus exclusively on teaching Gower, or even on teaching medieval literature/culture, it...

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...