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1 online resource (421 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Gower scholarship then and now; In media res: A year in the (after)life of Gower scholarship; Of hem that writen ous tofore: Early and essential scholarship; 'Al universiteé de tout le monde': A companion to current research on Gower; Notes; PART I: Working theories: medieval and modern; 1. Gower and theory: old books, new matters; Regarding theory; Theorizing Babel: Gower's languages |
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Speculative approaches: Gower's corpusConclusion: bodies of knowledge; Notes; 2. Gower and gender; Notes; 3. Gower and rhetoric; Rhetoric's mythical origins: Civilizing eloquence; Of evele and eke of goode also": Conflicting, immoral, and amoral rhetoric; (In)nocent games: Artes poetria and the Vox Clamantis; Rhetorical figures in Gower's Anglo-Norman and English poetry; Rhetoric and class from king to commoners; Gendered rhetoric; Gower's word on eloquence; Directions for future research; Notes; 4. Gower's religions; Notes; 5. John Gower and the law: legal theory and practice |
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Towards a theory of law as cultureGower's legal mindset; Natural law or law naturalized?; The fate of law; Shatter your illusions of fate; Notes; PART II: Things and places: material cultures; 6. John Gower's manuscripts in Middle English; Notes; 7. Gower's French manuscripts; Notes; 8. Gower's Latin manuscripts; Manuscript catalogues; Manuscript production and conditions; Material contexts; Notes; 9. Iberian manuscripts of Gower's works; The Castilian manuscript; The Portuguese manuscript; Notes; 10. Illuminations in Gower's manuscripts; Archer miniatures (Vox Clamantis) |
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Dream of Nebuchadnezzar and Confession miniatures (Confessio Amantis)Gower's visual afterlife; Conclusion and areas for future research; Notes; 11. Gower's Southwark; Topography; Governance; Population; Occupations and wealth; The sensory environment; Gower's residence in Southwark; The lawsuit of 1394-5: Feriby v. Gower et al.; Location and features of Gower's house in Southwark; Notes; 12. Gower's courts; Courts and court cultures; Gower as court poet and courtly poet; Gower as political poet; Conclusion; Notes; 13. Gower, business, and economy; Who were Gower and his readers? |
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Gower the political economistGower the satirist; Speaking of the economy; London and the poet; Economic contexts for Gower; Now what?; Notes; 14. Gower and science; Social science, conscience, and the search for truth; Gower's philosophical triangle, perspective, and suppositional logic; Gower and Boethius; Science, ocularity, and perspective; Mathematics and rhetoric in the numbering of true and false; Gower's fictive men and women of science; Aristotle and the sciences; Conclusion: Political and ethical science: Kingship, confession, cognition, and self-rule; Notes |
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15. Gower's reception, 1400-1700 |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gastle, Brian
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Yeager, R. F
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| ISBN |
9781317043027 |
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1317043022 |
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9781315613109 |
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1315613107 |
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