Scholarship Related To John Gower And His Works

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John Gower’s Traitié

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

John Gower’s Cinkante Balades

John Gower's Cinkante Balades Edited and Translated by Peter NicholsonFrom 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 poet. In...

MS Add 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 contents. The manuscript consists exclusively of Gower's...