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Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Georgia, 2009. vi, 302 pp. Fully available via https://openscholar.uga.edu/record/7013?ln=en&v=pdf (accessed February 23, 2026).

Ph.D. Dissertation. King's College London, 2014. 312 pp. Fully accessible via https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/studentTheses/imagining-troy/ (accessed February 23, 2026).

Yee, Pamela M. "Words of the Wounded: Traumatic Grief and Narrative Therapy in Middle English Dream Visions." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Rochester, 2022. Dissertation Abstracts International 84.04(E). Fully available online via https://urresearch.rochester.edu/.

Stern, Kortney, "Sonic Interventions: Silence, Sound, and Melody in Medieval Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation. Indiana University, 2024. Dissertation Abstracts International A86.02(E). xi, 227 pp. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Prasad, Prajapati. "The Order of Complaint: A Study in Medieval Tradition." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dissertation Abstracts 26.7 (1966): 3930. [eJGN 44.1]

Harder, Henry Louis. "Ovid and the Sentence of the 'Confessio Amantis.'" Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Maryland, 1970. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.11 (1971): 6057A.

Dwyer, Seamus. "Scripts and Literature in the Manuscripts of England and France, 1370-1425." Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 2024. Dissertation Abstracts International A86.01(E). Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Doob, Penelope Billings Reed. "Ego Nabugodonosor: A Study of Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation. Stanford University, 1970. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.04 (1970): 1755A. Full text accessible via ProQuest Theses & Dissertations Global.

Brent, Jonathan Lawrence. "World History in the Tumultuous 1330s: A Study of Nicholas Trevet's Anglo-Norman 'Cronicles.'" Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toronto, 2021. Dissertation Abstracts International A83.01(E). Full text accessible at https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/home.

Znojemská, Helena. "Loathly Ladies' Lessons: Negotiating Structures of Gender in 'The Tale of Florent,' 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' and 'The Wedding of Dame Ragnelle.'"Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica (2022): 21-37.

Yeager, R. F. "John Gower." In Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. The Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2. Medieval Poetry: 1100-1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 440-56.

Yeager, R. F. "Gower's Ovidian Aesthetics and Its Discontents." In William Green, Daniel Herbert, and Noelle Phillips, eds. Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2025), pp. 89-107.

Wu, Xiaoling. "'Worldes Faierie': The Narrative Controversies over Constance in 'Confessio Amantis.'" ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 37.4 (2024): 510–18.

Watt, David. "A Knight at the Roxburghe (Club): George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower and the Textual Transmission of 'Balades and Other Poems by John Gower.'" In William Green, Daniel Helbert, and Noëlle Phillips, eds. Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2025), pp. 152-65.

Warwick, W[illiam]. "On Gower, the Kentish Poet, His Character and Works." Archaeologia Cantiana, 6 (1866): 83-107.

Tower, Sir Reginald. "The Family of Septvans." Archaeologia Cantiana 40 (1928): 105-30.

Ronan, Mark. Addiction Literature's Past and Present. Cham, Switz.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Perry. R. D. Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

Newlands, Carole E. "The Other John Gower and the First English Translation of Ovid's 'Fasti.'" Hermathena 177/78 (2004, 2005): 251-65.

McGregor, Francine. "Bridling at Halters: Equine Bodies and Double Binds in John Gower's 'Tale of Rosiphelee.'" The Chaucer Review 60.1 (2025): 108-29.

L. B. L. [Lambert B. Larking]. "Genealogical Notices of the Northwoods." Archaeologia Cantiana 2 (1859): 9-42.

L. B. L. [Lambert B. Larking]. "'Probatio Aetatis' of William de Septvans, from the Surrenden Collection." Archaeologia Cantiana 1 (1858): 124-36.

Sobecki, Sebastian. "Quo vadis, Adam Pinkhurst? Scripts, Scribes, and the Limits of Paleography: A Response Essay." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 780-804.

Smith, Jeremy J. "On 'Standard' Written English in the Later Middle Ages." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 762-79.

O'Byrne, Theresa. "Bilingual, Bitextual Bellewe: A Case Study of Paleographical Code-Switching in Late Medieval English-Controlled Ireland. Speculum 99.3 (2024): 744-61.

Da Rold, Orietta. "Medieval Clerical Culture: The Sociology of Scripts and the Significance of Scribal Quirks." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 713-43.

Mooney, Linne R. "Reexamining the Evidence Regarding Adam Pinkhurst, Scrivener." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 697-712.

Horobin, Simon. "Identifying Scribal Hands: Principles and Problems." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 688-96.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. "Adam Pinkhurst and the Baffled Jury: Assessing Scribal Identifications within the Margin of Error." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 664-87.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. "Communities of Practice: New Methodological Approaches to Adam Pinkhurst and Chaucer's Earliest Scribes." Speculum 99.3 (2024): 664-804.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

Green, William. "Gower and the Heavens: the 'Dull' and the Divine in 'Confessio Amantis'." In William Green, Daniel Helbert, and Noëlle Phillips, eds. Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2025), pp. 133-51.

Giancarlo, Matthew. Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Gasse, Rosanne P. Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England. Cham, Switz.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Echard, Siân, "Aristocratic Antiquaries: Gower on Gower." In Siân Echard, ed. Printing the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), pp. 97-205.

Dwyer, Seamus. "Bastard Hands: Fifteenth-Century Scripts and the Processes of Medieval Making." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 118.3 (2024): 315–47.

Cowdery, Taylor. Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Bridges, Venetia. "Chaucer and Gower." In Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt, eds. Women and Medieval Literary Culture from the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 342-376.

Boecker, Bettina. "'The Tale of Tereus' and the Story of Procne: Innogen's Bedside Reading." Shakespeare 20.3 (2024): 415-32.

Blatt, Heather. "Describing Miscellanies in Late Medieval English Wills." The Huntington Library Quarterly 85 (2022): 683-704.

Batkie, Stephanie L. "Gower's Allusive Forms: Anaphora and Political Desire in the 'Visio Anglie'." In William Green, Daniel Helbert, and Noëlle Phillips, ed. Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2025). Pp. 108-32.

Archibald, Elizabeth. Incest and the Medieval Imagination. Oxford: Clarendon, 2001.

Adler, Gillian, and Paul Strohm. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life. Medieval Lives. London: Reaktion, 2023.

Hackbarth, Steven A. Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England. Ph.D. Dissertation. Marquette University, 2014. ii, 245 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 76.04(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/411/.

Stadolnik, Joseph. Subtle Arts: Practical Science and Middle English Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 2017. vii, 294 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A78.11(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

McMillan, Samuel F. Medieval Authorship at Reason's End: The "Roman de la Rose"'s Legacy of Misrule. Ph.D. Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University, 2016. v, 324 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A80.05(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/rr171x20k.

Knox, Philip.  The "Romance of the Rose" in Fourteenth-Century England. D.Phil. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2015. v, 281 pp.; 10 illus. Dissertation Abstracts International C75.01. A redacted version (without illus.) is fully accessible via https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d55e2158-a9ee-4bf2-b8e4-98d7e0c6a598. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses International.

Stoyanoff, Jeffery G. Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. Duquesne University, 2015. viii, 163 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A77/01(E). Fully accessible via https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/ and via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Orton, Daniel.  Theories of Poetry, 1256-1400. D.Phil. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2019. v, 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International C83.06(E). Freely accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dfc9eb17-71d5-425f-a7b1-2e835310e322; abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Schreiber, Earl George. "The Figure of Venus in Late Middle English Poetry." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Illinois, 1969. Dissertation Abstracts International 31 (1970): 767A. Full-text available at ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Owen, Trevor Allen. "Julius Caesar in English Literature from Chaucer through the Renaissance." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Minnesota, 1966. Dissertation Abstracts International 27 (1967): 3847A. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Yeager, R. F. "Absence Is Presence: The Confessio Amantis and The Faerie Queene." Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual 38 (2024): 73-87.

Yeager, R. F. "Derek Pearsall and John Gower." Chaucer Review 58, nos. 3-4 (2023): 481-93.

Yeager, R. F. "The Poetry of John Gower." In Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010. Pp. 476-95.

Willes, Margaret. Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024.

Weiskott, Eric. "Linguistic Change and Metre: A Reply." Notes and Queries 268 (2023): 54-55.

Weiskott, Eric. "The Eagle Has Landed: A Prophetic Pun in John Gower's 'Cronica tripertita'." ANQ: American Notes and Queries 36 (2023): 319-20.

Weiskott, Eric. "'Loquela gravis iuvat': Gower's "O deus immense" and the Place of Poetry, 1398-1400," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 205-46

Weiskott, Eric. "The Subject of John Gower's 'Dicunt Scripture'." Notes and Queries, 69 [267], no. 3 (2022): 196–98.

Weiskott, Eric. "The Occasion of John Gower's 'Unanimes Esse.'" Notes and Queries, 69 [267], no. 3 (2022): 192–96.

Walling, Amanda. "The Authority of Impersonation: Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' and the 'Secretum Secretorum'." Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 47.3 (2016): 343-64.

Vising, Johan. Anglo-Norman Language and Literature. London: Oxford University Press, 1923. 111 pp.

Vincent, Robert Hudson. "The Excesses of Romance: Shakespeare's Pericles and the Baroque." The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 20: Special Section, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre," ed. Tom Bishop et al. New York: Routledge, 2024: 32-49.

Stone, Zachary E. "Descriptive Catalogue of Eight Medieval Manuscripts from Wadham College, Oxford." The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 21 (2020): 445-76.

Sharma, Manish. The Logic of Love in "The Canterbury Tales." Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2022. x, 395 pp.

Saunders, Corinne. "From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts." In David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, and Jane McNaughton, eds. The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 87-109.

Rogers, Will, ed. and intro. "Tale of Constance," In Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe, ed. Cameron Hunt McNabb (New York: Punctum, 2020), pp. 304-12.

Pearsall, Derek. "Beyond Fidelity: The Illustration of Late Medieval Literary Texts." In Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott: English Medieval Manuscripts: Readers, Makers, Illuminators (London: Harvey Miller, 2009), pp. 197-208.

Ndiaye, Noémie. "'Read it for restoratives': "Pericles" and the Romance of Whiteness." Early Theatre: A Journal Associated with the Records of Early English Drama 26 (2023): 11-27.

Mitchell, J. Allan. "John Gower Illustrated: The Archer Images, Astronomical Science, and Poetic Identity." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023): 287-321.

Matthews, David. "Autobiographical Selves in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate." In Adam Smyth, ed. A History of English Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 27–40.

Mitchell, J. Allan. Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 249 pp.; 11 color illus.

Martin, Joanna. "The Translations of Fortune: James I's 'Kingis Quair' and the Rereading of Lancastrian Poetry." In Nicola Royan and Sally Mapstone, eds. Langage Cleir Illumynate: Scottish Poetry from Barbour to Drummond, 1375-1630 (Amsterdam: Brill Academic Publishers; 2007), pp. 43-60.

Hurley, Mary Kate. Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2021. Pp. 125-50.

Hsy, Jonathan. "At Home and in the 'Countour-Hous': Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings." In Suzanna Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 43–62.

Hicks, Michael A. Who's Who in Late Medieval England, 1272–1485. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1991. Pp. 178–80.

Hadfield, Andrew. Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.

Guy-Bray, Stephen. "Sources." In Henry S. Turner, ed. Early Modern Theatricality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 133-63.

Grinnell, Natalie. "[H]e which can no pite know": Murdered Children in the "Confessio Amantis." Investigo 1 (2023): 1-13.

Green, Richard Firth. "The Familia Regis and the Familia Cupidinis." In V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne, eds. English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983), pp. 87-108.

Gray, Douglas. '"Gower, John." In H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 61 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Vol. 23, pp. 125-30.

Gillen, Katherine A. "Authorial Anxieties and Theatrical Instability: John Bale's Biblical Plays and Shakespeare and Wilkins's Pericles." In James D. Maddock and Kathryn R. McPherson, eds. Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2014), pp. 171-93.

Friedman, Sarah. "Contagion, Sexual Violence, and Communal Healing in Chaucer's 'The Physician's Tale' and Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." Essays in Medieval Studies 37 (2022): 65-80.

Edwards, Suzanne M. The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Echard, Siân and Andrew Prescott. "Charming the Snake: Accessing and Disciplining the Medieval Manuscript," in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts, ed. Orieta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 237-66.

Echard, Siân, and Robert Allen Rouse, eds. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. 4 vols. (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2017).

Downes, Stephanie. How to Be "Both": Bilingual and Gendered Emotions in Late Medieval English Balade Sequences. In Susan Broomhall, ed. Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 51-65.

Davis, Alex. Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [xiii], 297 pp.; 11 b&w illus.

Carlson, David R. "English Poetry, July--October 1399, and Lancastrian Crime." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 375-418.

Burrow, John. "The Two Dreams of Charles d'Orleans and of His English Book.' In R. D. Perry and Mary-Jo Arn, eds. Charles d'Orleans' English Aesthetic: The Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes (Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2020), pp. 22–33.

Bower, Hannah. Middle English Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–1500. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Ascari, Maurizio. "Monumental Chaucer: Print Culture, and Conflict, and Canonical Resilience." Chaucer Review 53 (2018): 402-27.

Gerber, Amanda J.  Reframing the "Metamorphoses": The Enabling of Political Allegory in Late Medieval Ovidian Narrative. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Ohio State University, 2011. viii, 298 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A73.06. Freely accessible at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1323788507. Abstract accessible at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Holchak, Paul.  Intelligent Bodies and Embodied Minds: Reading Religious Performance in Middle English Writing from Syon Abbey, Nicholas Love, William Langland, and John Gower. Ph.D. Dissertation. City University of New York, 2017. x, 239 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A78.07(E). Freely accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1915/.

Hastings, Justin A. "Englishing" Horace: The Influence of the Horatian Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry. Ph.D. Dissertation. Loyola University, 2016. vi, 287 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A78.07(E). Fully accessible ProQuest Theses & Dissertations Global and at https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2283/.

Nafde, Aditi. Deciphering the Manuscript Page: The "Mise-en-Page" of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve Manuscripts. D.Phil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2012. viii, 268 pp.; 11 illus. Dissertation Abstracts International C73.08 and C81.07(E). Fully accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b2c67783-b797-494a-b792-368c14d1fe49. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Rajendran, Shyama. Modes of Multilingualism: Contemporary Language Theory and the Works of John Gower. Ph.D. Dissertation. George Washington University, 2017. viii, 163 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A79.01(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Herrold, Megan. Productive Misogyny in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Women, Justice, and Social Order. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Southern California, 2018. 267 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Gillhammer, Cosima Clara. An Edition of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2020. 2 vols.: xi, 335; i, 329; 51 illus. Dissertation Abstracts International C82.02(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Fully accessible via https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c3244a71-a6fa-4646-aeb3-9902e055a290.

Strakhov, Yelizaveta. Politics in Translation: Language, War, and Lyric Form in Francophone Europe, 1337-1400. University of Pennsylvania, 2014. ix, 339 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.