John Gower’s Traitié

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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

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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...

Publications of the John Gower Society

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About the Series This series aims to provide a forum for critical studies of the poetry of John Gower and its influence on English and Continental literatures during the late Middle Ages and into the present day. Although its main focus is on the single poet,...

Dream of Nebuchadnezzar and Confession Miniatures in Gower’s Confessio Amantis

Manuscripts, Scholarship

by Joyce Coleman The following chart and accompanying excel file reflects a compilation of known Dream of Nebuchadnezzar and Confession miniatures in extant copies of Gower’s Confessio Amantis. For a fuller discussion of these miniatures, and of illuminations in...

UNC-CH RBC Incunabula 532.5: A Caxton Confessio

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A Caxton Edition of John Gower's Confessio Amantis UNC-CH Catalogue Entry: Published:  Westminster, William Caxton, 2 Sept. 1493 [i.e. 1483] Description: [9], 2-ccxi [i.e. ccxiii], [1] l.; leaves [1], [8], [9] and last leaf are blank. fo. 30 cm. Notes: Capital spaces,...

MS Add 59495: The Trentham Manuscript

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British Library MS Additional 59495: The Trentham Manuscript British Library MS Additional 59495, known to early editors and modern Gower scholars alike as the Trentham Manuscript, is extraordinarily important to the study of Gower, given both its provenance and its...