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Braeger, Peter C.. "The Illustrations in New College MS. 266 for Gower's Conversion Tales." In John Gower: Recent Readings. Papers Presented at the Meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-88. Ed. Yeager, R.F.. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1989, pp. 275-310.

Ohno, Hideshi. "The Impersonal and Personal Constructions in the Language of Chaucer." In Osamu Imahayashi, et al. eds., Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature: Selected Papers read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 115-29.

Culver, T. D. "The Imposition of Order: A Measure of Art in the Man of Law's Tale." Yearbook of English Studies 2 (1972): 13-20.

Thomson, P.W. "The Influence of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate on the Scottish Poets in the 15th and early 16th Centuries. B.Litt. Thesis. Oxford University, 1915.

Forster, James Joseph. The Influence of Medieval Mythography on John Gower. Ph.D. Dissertation. Duke University, 1973.

Mish, Frederick Crittenden. "The Influence of Ovid on John Gower's 'Vox clamantis'." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Minnesota, 1973. Dissertation Abstracts International 34.11: 7198A. Full text available at ProQuest.

Robson, A. N. "The Influence of the 'Roman de la Rose' on the 'Confessio Amantis'." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Cambridge, 1991. Index to Theses, with Abstracts: Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 40.4 (1991), no. 7417.

Nicholson, Peter. "The Instructor's Library." In Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Ed. Yeager, R. F., and Gastle, Brian W. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2011, pp. 17-25. ISBN 9781603290999

Moorman, Frederic. The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare. Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der Germanische Völker, no. 95. Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1905, pp. 122-24.

Bryan, J. Ingram. The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 1932. Reprint. Folcroft Library, 1972, p. 71.

Braeger, Peter C.. "The Interrelationships of Text and Illustration in Some Middle English Literary Manuscripts." PhD thesis, Purdue University, 1986.

Haman, Mark Stefan. "The Introspective and Egocentric Quests of Character and Audience: Modes of Self-Definition in the York Corpus Christi Cycle and in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale." Ph. D. Diss. University of Rochester 1982. DAI 42(10): 4444A.

Holsinger, Bruce. "The Invention of Fire." New York: HarperCollins, 2015 ISBN 9780062356451

Nolan, Maura. "The Invention of Style." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 33-71, A1-A12.

Carlson, David R. "The Invention of the Anglo-Latin Public Poetry (circa 1367-1402) and its Prosody, esp. in John Gower." Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 39 (2004), pp. 389-406. ISSN 0076-9762

Leland, John. The Itinerary of John Leland, the Antiquary. Oxford: Theatro Shedloniano, 1710-12, VI, 13.

McGerr, Rosemarie. "The Judge as Reader, the Reader as Judge: Literary and Legal Judgment in Dante, Machaut, and Gower." In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 165-91.

Codling, Deborah Ann. The Kingly Style of Henry IV: Personality, Politics and Culture. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of London, Royal Holloway College, 2005. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.40. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Grady, Frank. "The Lancastrian Gower and the Limits of Exemplarity." Speculum 70 (1995), pp. 552-75.

Kendall, Elliot. The Landowner's Book of Courtly Love: Languages of Lordship and the "Confessio amantis." Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Oxford, 2003. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.36. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Samuels, M.L and Smith, J.J. "The Language of Gower." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 82 (1981), pp. 295-304. ISSN 0028-3754

Tarvers, Josephine Koster. The Language of Prayer in Middle English,1200-1400 (Medieval, Religious, Katherine Group, Chaucer). Ph.D. Dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985. DAI-A 46.11. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Friedman, Albert B. "The Late Medieval Ballade and the Origin of Broadside Balladry." Medium Aevum 27 (1958): 98-99.

Echard, Siân, trans., and Fanger, Clare, trans.. "The Latin Verses in the Confessio Amantis: An Annotated Translation." Medieval Texts and Studies, 7 . East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1991

Rigg, A. G. and Moore, Edward G. "The Latin Works: Politics, Lament and Praise." In A Comanion to Gower. Ed. Echard, Siân. Cambridge: Brewer, 2004, pp. 153-64.

Meindl, Robert J. "The Latin Works." In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 341-54.

Behrend, Megan. "The Latinity of Middle English Literature: Form, Translation, and Vernacularization." Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2022. Restricted access; abstract available at https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/174649 (accessed January 27, 2023).

Joachums, M. C. "The Legend of the Voice from Heaven." Notes and Queries, New Series 11 (1946): 44-47.

Gardner, John. The Life and Times of Chaucer. New York: Knopf, 1977, pp. 16-17, 18, 59, 117, 128, 130, 136, 164, 225, 238, 249, 253, 255, 294.

Blades, William. The Life and Typography of William Caxton. 2 vols. London: Joseph Lilly, 1861-1863, I, 34, 64, 72-73; II, 139-43.

Pearsall, Derek. "The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography." Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 ISBN 1557862052

Lewis, John. The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent: The First Printer in England. London, 1737, pp. 79-81.

More, Brookes, ed. The Life, Works, and Approof of Ovid, Gathered Out of his own Works, and the Relations of Divers Faithful Authors, in Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Boston, 1923, vol. 2, vii-xxxiii.

Yunck, John A. The Lineage of Lady Meed: The Development of Medieval Veniality Satire. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1963, pp. 262-65, 298.

Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey. "The Literary Impact of the Pun in Middle English Literature." In Geardagum: Essays on Old and Middle English 7 (1986): 17-36.

Theiner, Paul. "The Literary Uses of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381." In Actes du VIe Congres de l'Association Internationale de Litterature Comparée. Ed. Cadot, Michel, et al. Stuttgart: Erich Bieber, 1975, pp. 303-306.

Entwistle, William J., and Eric Gillett. The Literature of England, A.D. 500-1942. London: Longmans, Green, 1943, p. 21

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).

Winstanley, William. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets. London: Samuel, 1687, pp. 18-22.

Cibber, Theophilus. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the Time of Dean Swift. London: R. Griffith, 1753, I, 20-23.

Shelley, Percy V. C. The Living Chaucer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940, pp. 11, 25, 92, 169, 170, 175, 184, 185, 268, 302.

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

Echard, Siân. "The Long and the Short of It: On Gower's Forms." In John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception. Ed. Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and R. F. Yeager. Publications of the John Gower Society X. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2014. Pp. 245-60.

Quejigo, Grande and Javier, Francisco and Santano Moreno, Bernardo. "The Love Debate Tradition in the Reception of Gower's Confessio Amantis in the Iberian Peninsula." Disputatio 5 (2002), pp. 103-126.

Gastle, Brian, and Catherine Carter, ed. and trans. The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2024.

Stockton, Eric W., trans. The Major Latin Works of John Gower. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962. Unrestricted access to full text at https://vdoc.pub/documents/the-major-latin-works-of-john-gower-the-voice-of-one-crying-and-the-tripartite-chronicle-9bhq1oossn40. Accessed June 22, 2022.

Galloway, Andrew. "The Making of a Social Ethic in Late-Medieval England: From Gratitudo to 'Kyndenesse'." Journal of the History of Ideas 55 (1994), pp. 365-83.

Crawshaw, William H. The Making of English Literature. New York: Heath, 1907. Rev. ed., 1924, pp. 56, 60-62, 73, 76, 463, 487, 488.

Theiner, Paul. "The Man of Law Tells his Tale." Studies in Medieval Culture 5 (1975), pp. 173-179.

David, Alfred. "The Man of Law vs. Chaucer: A Case in Poetics." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 82.2 (1967), pp. 217-225.

Brown, Carleton. "The Man of Law's Headlink and the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales." Studies in Philology 34 (1937): 8-35. [RFY1981].

Nicholson, Peter. "The Man of Law's Tale: What Chaucer Really Owed to Gower." Chaucer Review 23 (1991), pp. 163-181. ISSN 0009-2002

Pearsall, Derek. "The Manuscripts and Illustrations of Gower's Works." In A Companion to Gower. Ed. Echard, Siân. Cambridge: Brewer, 2004, pp. 73-97.

Donaldson, E. Talbot. "The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Works." Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: Writers and Their Background. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1975, p. 97.

Pérez-Fernández, Tamara. "The Margins in the Iberian Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis: Language, Authority and Readership." ES: Revista de Filología Inglesa 33.1 (2012), pp. 29-44. ISSN 0210-9689

Gwynn, Stephen. The Masters of English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1904, p. 4

Peck, Russell. "The Materiality of Cognition in Reading, Staging, and Regulation of Brain and Heart Activities in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis.'" In Russell A. Peck and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower: Others and the Self. Publications of the John Gower Society XI (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2017) pp. 7-31.

McMackin Cubie, Genevieve. "The Meaning of Caritas in John Gower's Confessio Amantis." PhD thesis, Ohio State University, 1987.

Donavin, Georgiana. "The meaning of incest in the 'Confessio Amantis'." PhD thesis, University of Oregon, 1992.

Miller, Paul Scott. "The Mediaeval Literary Theory of Satire and Its Relevance to the Works of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer." Ph.D. Diss. Queen's University, Belfast 1982. DAI 51(4): 1222A.

Fox, George G. "The Mediaeval Sciences in the Works of John Gower." Princeton: Princeton UP, 1931

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Wedel, Theodore Otto. The Mediaeval Attitude toward Astrology, Particularly in England. Yale Studies in English, no. 60. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1920, pp. 76n, 104-05, 113, 116, 122, 132-42, 147, 153.

Braswell, Mary Flowers. "The Medieval Sinner: Characterization and Confession in the Literature of the English Middle Ages." London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983 ISBN 0838631177

Luttrell, C. A. The Medieval Tradition of the Pearl Virginity. Medium Aevum 31 (1962): 194-200.

Coulton, G. G. The Medieval Village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931, pp. 181, 186-87, 212, 215, 235ff., 248, 259, 273, 296, 447, 512, 523.

Harper, Alison. "The Merchant Richard Hill and His Book: Using 'Confessio Amantis' Tales to Negotiate the Spiritual Marketplace in Henrician London." In Kristin M.S. Bezio and Scott Oldenburg, eds. Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021). Pp. 32-49.

Meindl, Robert J. "The Message of the Ruins: Reading Devastation." Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 18 (2013), pp. 13-19. ISSN 1087-5557

Bolton, W. F., ed. The Middle Ages. Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, vol. 1. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1970. pp. ix-xxxvi.

Whitehead, Christiania. "The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context." In Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir, eds. The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature. Milton: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 332-44.

Schmitz, Goetz. "The Middle Weie": Stil- und Aufbauformen in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. Bonn: Grundmann, 1974.

Tatlock, J. S. P. The Mind and Art of Chaucer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1950. Reprint. New York: Gordian Press, 1966, pp. 19, 27, 51.

Yeager, R.F., trans. and Livingston, Michael, trans. "The Minor Latin Works." Middle English Texts Series . Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2005 ISBN 9781580440974

Hussey, S. S. " The Minor Poems and the Prose." In W.F. Bolton, ed. The Middle Ages. Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, vol. 1 (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1970), pp. 230, 258, 259.

Shuffelton, George Gordon. "The miscellany and the monument: Collecting in Chaucer, Gower, and Langland." PhD thesis, Yale University, 2002.

Dingley, R. J.. "The Misfortunes of Philomel." Parergon 4 (1986), pp. 73-86.

Zayaruznaya, Anna. The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 142-72. ISBN 9781107039667.

Blore, Edward. The Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons, Comprising the Sepulchral Antiquities of Great Britain. London: Harding, Lepard, 1826, pp. 1-16.

In Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean, eds. Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen (Lanham, MD.: University of Delaware Press, 2018), pp. 25-41.

Cooper, Mrs. [Elizabeth], assisted by William Oldys. The Muses Library; or a Series of English poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II. London, 1737, pp, 19-22. Also published as The Historical and Poetical Medley; or, Muses Library . . . , etc. London: T. Davis, 1738.

Trivellini, Samanta. "The Myth of Philomela from Margaret Atwood to . . . Chaucer: Contexts and Theoretical Perspectives." Interférences Litteraires / Literaire Interferenties 17 (2015): 85-99. Available at http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be. Last accessed November 9, 2020.

Harbert, Bruce. "The Myth of Tereus in Ovid and Gower." Medium AEvum 41 (1972), pp. 208-214.

Gerber, Amanda. "The Mythological Sciences of John Gower, Medieval Classicists, and Morgan MS M. 126." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 257-88; 6 b&w figs.

Vinge, Louise. The Narcissus Theme in Western European Literature up to the Early Nineteenth Century. Lund: Gleerup, 1967, pp. 45ff., 55, 343n, 359n.

Smith, D. Vance. "The National Allegory of the Household: 'Domus' and 'Lingua' in John Gower's 'Vox Clamantis' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'House of Fame'." In C. M. Woolgar, ed. The Elite Household in England, 1100-1550: Proceedings of the 2016 Harlaxton Symposium. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2018. 110-28.

White, Hugh. "The Naturalness of Amans' Love in Confessio Amantis." Medium AEvum 56 (1987), pp. 316-22.

Medieval Feminist Forum 55 (2019): 207-48.

Gastle, Brian. "The Need for Economy: Poetic Identity and Trade in Gower's Confessio Amantis." In Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature. Ed. Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 127-42.

Watson, George. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974, I, 553-56.

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

Lindahl, Carl. "The Oral Undertones of Late Medieval Romance." In Oral Tradition in the Middle Ages. Ed. Nicolaisen, W.F.H.. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (112). Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995, pp. 59-75.

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]

Pearsall, Derek. "The Organisation of the Latin Apparatus in Gower's Confessio Amantis: The Scribes and their Problems." In The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya. Ed. Matsuda, Takami and Linenthal, Richard A. and Scahill, John. Cambridge: Brewer and Tokyo: Yushodo Press, 2004, pp. 99-112. ISBN 1843840200

Heffernan, Carol F. The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003.

Neilson, William A. The Origins of the Court of Love. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, VI, 1899. Reprint. New York: Russell and Russell, 1967, pp. 138-41, 155, 164.

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

Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Irvine, 2016. Open access at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cz1v5sv (accessed February 2, 2023).

Hiscoe, David W. "The Ovidian Comic Strategy of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." Philological Quarterly 64 (1985), pp. 367-85. ISSN 0031-7977

Peter G. Beidler. "Chaucer's Canterbury Comedies: Origins and Originality. Seattle, WA: Coffeetown Press, 2011. Pp 105-15.

Edwards, A. S. G. "The Ownership and Sale of Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." The Library 23 (2022): 180-90.