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Gower, John - gouˈər, gôr, 1330?–1408, English poet. He was the best-known contemporary and friend of Chaucer, who addressed him as "Moral Gower," at the end of Troilus and Criseyde. Apparently he was a Kentish landowner who lived in London until his last years, when he became blind and retired as a layman to the priory of St. Mary Overey. In the 15th and

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Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis » Read Now
by Ellen Shaw Bakalian. 203 pgs.

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Throughout the tales in the 'Confessio Amantis', John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society.
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Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins: Being the Confessio Amantis » Read Now
by John Gower. 416 pgs.

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...BEING THE CONFESSIO AMANTIS OF JOHN GOWER EDITED BY HENRY MORLEY, LL.D...our stage in Shakespeares time, John Gower himself was supposed to speak its...print, the...
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Betwene Ernest and Game: The Literary Artistry of the Confessio Amantis » Read Now
by Alexandra Hennessey Olsen. 132 pgs.

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...bibliographical references. 1. Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis. 2. Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Style. 3. English...permission to quote from the works of John...
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Kingship & Common Profit in Gower's Confessio Amantis » Read Now
by Russell A. Peck. 204 pgs.

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...bibliographical references and index. 1. Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis. 2. Gower, John, 1325?-1408-Religion and ethics...bad workmanship on the part of John...
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Pre-Texts: Tables of Contents and the Reading of John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,' in Medium Aevum » Read Now
by Sian Echard. 18 pgs.

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...versions. (2) The English Works of John Gower, ed. G. C. Macaulay, 2 vols (Oxford...cxxxi. (3) See John Hurt Fisher, John Gower Moral Philosopher and Friend of...
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Literary Genealogy, Virile Rhetoric, and John Gower's Confessio Amantis, in Philological Quarterly » Read Now
by Diane Watt. 29 pgs.

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...on whom it had a major impact was John Gower. The extent of Gowers familiarity...Amantis are to The English Works of John Gower, ed. G. C. Macaulay, EETS e.s. 81...for...
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The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England (Chap. 3 "The Literature of 1388 and the Politics of Pity in Gower's Confessio Amantis") » Read Now
by Candace Barrington, Emily Steiner. 257 pgs.

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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature ("The Pricke of Conscience and Gower's Mirrour de l'Omme and Confessio Amantis" begins on p. 79) » Read Now
by Bryon Lee Grigsby. 206 pgs.

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This book examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and literary authors from the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases...
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This book examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and literary authors from the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases, doctors and priests saw epidemic diseases as a punishment sent by God for human transgression. Accordingly, their job was to properly read sickness in relation to the sin. By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this book shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidermic diseases to the sins of carnality.
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The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance (Chap. 2 "Mercantilism and Faith in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron 5, 2, and Gower's Tale of Constance") » Read Now
by Carol F. Heffernan. 160 pgs.

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The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much about its use and significance, setting the literature in its historical context and thereby offering fresh new readings of a number of texts. The author begins by looking at Chaucer's and...
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The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much about its use and significance, setting the literature in its historical context and thereby offering fresh new readings of a number of texts. The author begins by looking at Chaucer's and Gower's treatment of the legend of Constance, as told by the Man of Law, demonstrating that Chaucer's addition of a pattern of mercantile details highlights the commercial context of the eastern Mediterranean in which the heroine is placed; she goes on to show how Chaucer's portraits of Cleopatra and Dido from the Legend of Good Women, read against parallel texts, especially in Boccaccio, reveal them to be loci of medieval orientalism. She then examines Chaucer's inventive handling of details taken from Eastern sources and analogues in the Squire's Tale, showing how he shapes them into the western form of interlace. The author concludes by looking at two romances, Floris and Blauncheflur and Le Bone Florence of Rome; she argues that elements in Floris of sibling incest are legitimised into a quest for the beloved, and demonstrates that Le Bone Florence be related to analogous oriental tales about heroic women who remain steadfast in virtue against persecution and adversity.Professor CAROL F. HEFFERNAN teaches in the Department of English, Rutgers University.
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The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form (Chap. 6 "John Gower's Fourteenth-Century Philosophical Vision") » Read Now
by Kathryn L. Lynch. 266 pgs.

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Political Allegory in Late Medieval England (Chap. 3 "Gower's Arion and 'Cithero'") » Read Now
by Ann W. Astell. 220 pgs.

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Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England (Chap. 7 "O Political Gower") » Read Now
by Judith Ferster. 220 pgs.

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...social views. 5. Gower, John, 1325?- 1408...7. O Political Gower 108...the book. The late John Hazel Smith was energetically...special issue on Gower edited by Robert...
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Violence against Women in Medieval Texts (Chap. 7 "Rivalry, Rape, and Manhood: Gower and Chaucer") » Read Now
by Anna Roberts. 258 pgs.

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This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal...
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This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents. In its use of well-known authors (Chaucer and Christine de Pizan) and lesser-known writers, this collection provides a rich and useful survey for researchers in women's studies and medieval literature.
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History Lessons from the End of Time: Gower and the English Rising of 1381, in CLIO » Read Now
by Lynn Arner. 20 pgs.

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...explanation that the contemporary poet John Gower offered for rebels participation...war nearly three centuries later. John Gower (c. 1330-1408), second only to...
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Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose (Chap. XII "John Gower D. 1408") » Read Now
by Kenneth Sisam. 464 pgs.

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