Contextualising Gower : texts, books, heritage / edited by Alastair J. Minnis and R. F. Yeager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.), editor.

Yeager, Robert F., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Publications of the John Gower Society

Publications of the John Gower Society, XVII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gower, John, 1325?-1408--Criticism and interpretation.

Gower, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2026.

Contents:

Introduction

I. Textual and literary genealogies

Gower and the sublime / Robert R. Edwards

John Gower and the Wycliffite Bible / Michael P. Kuczynski

Confessio peccatoris: Gower and the influence of Handlyng Synne / Lucy Turton

The influence of Eustache Deschamps' "balades morales" in the Traitǐ pour essampler les amantz marietz / Clotilde Dauphant

John Gower's word-formations in Middle English: a case study of Confessio Amantis / Kerstin Majewski

II. Books, material texts, and foundations

Northern Gower: how the Trentham Manuscript was brought from Scotland / Margaret Connolly

Adding and subtracting: dealing with damage in Gower manuscripts / Sín Echard

Thomas Tyrwhitt's copy of the Confessio Amantis: readings and annotations / Ana S̀ez-Hidalgo

John Gower and the communities of lay tenants in London's religious houses / Caroline M. Barron and Martha Carlin

III. Morality, sacramentality, afterlife

Gower's Constantine: between hagiography and morality / Ann W. Astell

Gower's "Honeste Love" revisited / Alastair Minnis

Which Ovid did Gower user for the Confessio Amantis? / Taylor Cowdery

Sacramental views of peace and marriage in the poems of the Trentham Manuscript / Yoshiko Kobayashi

Touching upon sin: the "Tale of Action" as Primum Mobile for Gower's Confessio Amantis / Brian Gastle

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Minnis, Alastair J. Contextualising Gower: Texts, Books, Heritage

ISBN:

9781843848097

1843848090

Publisher Number:

40033312928

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