John Gower, Trilingual Poet

Presents new information about Gower's work and raises new provocative questions. . It is an excellent addition to the growing scholarship. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY * The level of critical energy, enterprise, and imagination generally on show in this collection of essays is exceptionally high, and it significantly advances studies of Gower's whole corpus. * MEDIUM AEVUM * [A] notable contribution to the study of Gower, who emerges here as an erudite and wide-ranging poet in Latin, French, and English. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER * Making available new work by well-known scholars as well as fresh contributions by younger scholars, the collection yields abundant proof, if proof were needed, of the ongoing vitality of Gower studies. [...] There is no doubt about the value of this collection. These essays represent the current flourishing state of Gower studies. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *

ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. CATHY HUME is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. NIGEL SAUL is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London

Introduction. John Gower: Readings in the Work of a Trilingual Poet - Elisabeth Dutton Southwark Gower - Augustinian Agencies in Gower's Manuscripts and Texts - Some Prolegomena - Jean-Pascal Pouzet The Place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Ethan Knapp Topical and Tropological Gower: Invoking Armenia in the Confessio Amantis - Carolyn P Collette Saving History: Gower's Apocalyptic and the New Arion - Elliot Kendall Gower's Poetics of the Literal - Robert R. Edwards Romance, Popular Style, and the Confessio Amantis: Confict or Evasion? - George Shuffleton John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat? - Nigel Saul The Parliamentary Source of Gower's Cronica Tripertita and Incommensurable Styles - David R. Carlson John Gower's Legal Advocacy and "In Praise of Peace" - Candace Barrington Se-duction and Sovereign Power in Gower's Confessio Amantis book V - Andreea D. Boboc The Fifteen Stars, Stones, and Herbs: book VII of the Confessio Amantis and its Afterlife - Tamara F. O'Callaghan "Of the parfite medicine": Merita Perpetuata in Gower's Vernacular Alchemy - Stephanie L. Batkie Inside Out in Gower's Republic of Letters - Karla Taylor Gower's Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent - Brian Gastle Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis - Matthew W. Irvin Irony v. Paradox in the Confessio Amantis - Peter Nicholson Sinning against Love in Confessio Amantis - John A. Burrow The Woman's Response in John Gower's Cinkante Balades - Holly Barbaccia Rich Words: Gower's Rime Riche in Dramatic Action - Kim Zarins Florent's mariage sous la potence - Richard Firth Green Why did Gower write the Traiti? - Cathy Hume Rival Poets: Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women - John M. Bowers Reassessing Gower's Dream Visions - Andrew Galloway John Gower's French and His Readers - Robert F. Yeager Conjuring Gower in Pericles - Martha W. Driver Bibliography