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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"John Gower"”.
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… framing techniques used by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. These authors were selected for several reasons. Being contemporaries, they lived through the days of the reign of Richard II, his deposition, and the accession of Henry IV. This was a time change: the age of chivalry and true knighthood …
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John Gower and the Apollonius-tradition: including an anonymous Latin prose version, the Latin verse version of Godfrey of Viterbo, and John Gower’s English verse version of the Apollonius story (Confessio amantis, book eight), (together with translations of the Latin, notes, and a glossary of Gower’s Middle-English)
… has been to draw attention to the way in which John Gower uses the Apollonius story, and to look at his telling of the tale, not as a mere source of Shakespeare’s Pericles, but as a version in its own right: one version in an ancient tradition which was already more than a thousand years old …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… namely Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of Gower and Langland has been discussed by many other scholars, this study focuses on Chaucer's poems and their implicit opposition of …
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A Devil of a Coincidence: Study on Milton and Gower
… in all of literary history. The work, written by John Milton, depicts Satan's fall from Heaven and subsequent deeds on Earth and in Hell. One of the more remarkable and, often, most overlooked scenes in the story involves the distinctive personification of Sin and Death. Milton depicts Sin as the …
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The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M.126)
… vernacular literature in late medieval England, John Gower describes authorial activity as the process of translating and assimilating pre-existing narratives. This dissertation argues that such conceptualizations of authorship were embraced by illuminators of vernacular literature in their …
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Objects and anxiety in late medieval English writing
… I focus on the tale of "Albinus and Rosemund" in John Gower's Confessio Amantis and consider how the substance or matter of an object has inherent power, even if it cannot be perceived immediately though senses. In that tale, the central object, a golden and bejeweled cup that was crafted from a …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… the works of archbishop Richard FitzRalph; poets John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer; Oxford dissidents and Bible translators such as Nicholas Hereford; and, most notably, John Wyclif, the Oxford philosopher and preacher who inspired the heretical Lollard movement.</p> <p>The …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… this project examines the works of two authors, John Gower and Christine de Pizan, who use prophecy to assert their superior analytical skills. Although both authors draw heavily from the tradition of the prophet Daniel, a prophet known for his inspired interpretive abilities, they claim their …
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SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
… Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s “Apollonius of Tyre” and the anonymous, late fifth-century Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. These five works may differ in author, time of composition, and genre, but I yoke these stories together because of each author's treatment of …
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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England
Translations of works containing Arabic and ancient Greek knowledge of the philosophical and mechanical underpinnings of the natural world—a field of study called natural philosophy—were disseminated throughout twelfth-century England. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, institutional …