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Mitchell, J. Allan. "Reading for the Moral: The Ethics of Exemplarity in Middle English Literature (John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer)." PhD thesis, Dalhousie University, 2003.

Taylor, Karla. "Reading Faces in Gower and Chaucer." 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. 73-90.

Beck, Christian Blevins. "Reading emotional bodies: Love and gender in late medieval English literature." PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2010.

Bahr, Arthur W. "Reading Codicological Form in John Gower's Trentham Manuscript." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011), pp. 219-62. ISSN 0190-2407

Knox, Philip, William Poole, and Mark Griffith. "Reading Chaucer in New College, Oxford, in the 1630s: The Commendatory Verses of Francis Kynaston's ' Troili et Creseidæ'." Medium Aevum 85.1 (2016): 33-58.

Zieman, Katherine Grace. "Reading and Singing: Liturgy, Literacy, and Literature in Late Medieval England." PhD thesis, University of California at Berkeley, 1997.

Sierra, Juan David. "Readers as Authors: Reproducing Authority in the Iberian Translations of John Gower's Confessio Amantis." eHumanista 22 (2012): 429-53.

Peck, Russell A. "Reader, Editor, and Geometrician 'for Engelondes sake'." In John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Ed. Urban, Malte. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009, pp. 11-37.

Girard, Karen Lee. "Re-writing Alexander the Great: Literary adaptations of Alexander's life in medieval England." PhD thesis, Stanford University, 2001.

Yeager, R. F., ed. "Re-Visioning Gower." Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 1998

Ensley, Mimi. Re-forming the Past: The Medieval Romance Book as a Dynamic Site of Memory. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame, 2019. vi, 315 pp.; illus. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.09(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Mast, Isabelle. "Rape in John Gower's Confessio Amantis and Other Related Works." In Young Medieval Women. Ed. Lewis, Katherine J. and Menuge, Noël James and Phillips, Kim M.. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, pp. 103-32.

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

MacCracken, Henry Noble. "Quixley's Ballades Royal (?1402)." Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 20 (1909), pp. 33-50.

Meecham-Jones, Simon. "Questioning Romance: Amadas and Ydoine in Gower's Confessio Amantis." Parergon 17 (2000), pp. 35-49.

Strollreither, K. "Quellennachweise zu Gowers Confessio Amantis." PhD thesis, Munich, 1901.

Bech, M. "Quellen und Plan der Legende of Goode Women und ihr Verhältnis zur Confessio Amantis." Anglia 5 (1882), pp. 313-382.

Allen-Goss, Lucy. "Queerly Productive: Women and Collaboration in Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff. 1. 6." postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 9 (2018), 334-48.

Federico, Sylvia. "Queer Times: Richard II in the Poems and Chronicles of Late Fourteenth-Century England." Medium Aevum 79.1 (2010): 25-46. ISSN 0025-8385.

Dinshaw, Carolyn. "Quarrels, Rivals and Rape: Gower and Chaucer." In A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honor of Paule Mertens-Fonck. Ed. Dor, Juliette. Liége: L3 – Liége Language and Literature, Département d'anglais, Université de Liége, 1992, pp. 112-122.

Flügel, Ewald. "Pyramys and Tysbe." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 12 (1889): 16-20.

Adams, Abigail Marie "Putting Together the Pieces: Excerpts from Rolle, Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate in Fifteenth-Century Miscellanies." Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, 2022. DAI-A 84.06 (E).

Castilho Ribeiro Santos, Paulo Eduardo. "Public Poetry and the Psychology of Confession in John Gower's Confessio Amantis." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Ottawa, 2024. Fully accessible via https://ruor.uottawa.ca/items/13093764-63a8-4da8-8dce-3461f50409e8.

López-Vidriero Abelló, María Luisa. "Provenance Interlacing in Spanish Royal Book-Collecting and the Case of the Confessio Amantis (RB MS II-3088)." 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: D. S. Brewer, 2014). Pp. 33-49.

Salisbury, Eve. "Promiscuous Contexts: Gower's Wife, Prostitution, and the Confessio Amantis." In John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Ed. Urban, Malte. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009, pp. 219-40.

Meecham-Jones, Simon. "Prologue: The Poet as Subject: Literary Self-Consciousness in Gower's Confessio Amantis." In Betraying Our Selves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts. Ed. Dragstra, Henk and Ottway, Sheila and Wilcox, Helen. New York: St. Martin's, 2000, pp. 14-30.

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.

Meyer, Cathryn Marie. "Producing the Middle English corpus: Confession and medieval bodies." PhD thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.

Driver, Martha W. "Printing the Confessio Amantis: Caxton's Edition in Context." In Re-visioning Gower. Ed. Yeager, R.F.. Charlotte, NC: Pegasus Press, 1998, pp. 269-303.

Higl, Andrew. "Printing Power: Selling Lydgate, Gower, and Chaucer." Essays in Medieval Studies 23 (2006): 57-77. ISSN 1043-2213.

Higl, Andrew. "Printing Power: Selling Lydgate, Gower, and Chaucer." Essays in Medieval Studies 23 (2006), pp. 57-77. ISSN 1043-2213

Kanno, Masahiko. "Prepositions in Gower's Confessio Amantis." Bulletin of Gifu Pharmaceutical College 18 (1968): 13-46. Unrestricted access at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/229509444.pdf; accessed July 26, 2022.

Dryden, John. "Preface to The Fables, 1700." In Selected Works of John Dryden. Edited by William Frost. New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, 1967, p. 397.

Heather, P. J. "Precious Stones in the Middle-English Verse of the Fourteenth Century." Folklore 42 (1931), pp. 217-264.

"Preacher or Poet?" Anonymous Review. Times Literary Supplement, 18 November 1965

Echard, Siân. "Pre-Texts: Tables of Contents and the Reading of John Gower's Confessio Amantis." Medium AEvum 66 (1997), pp. 270-287.

Johnson, Eleanor. "Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013 ISBN 9780226015842

Kruger, Steven F. "Postcolonial/Queer: Teaching Gower Using Recent Critical Theory." 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. 127-35. ISBN 9781603290999

Hsy, Jonathan Horng. "Polyglot poetics: Merchants and literary production in London, 1300--1500." PhD thesis, The University of Pennsylvnia, 2007.

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.

Yeager, R.F. "Politics and the French Language in England during the Hundred Years' Way: The Case of John Gower." In Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures. Ed. Baker, Denise. Albany, NY: University of New York Press, 2000, pp. 127-157.

Scattergood, V. J. "Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century." London: Blandford, 1971

Johnson, Valerie. "Politicizing the Landscape: Ricardian Literary Languages of Power." PhD thesis, University of Rochester, 2013.

Rigby, Stephen H. "Political Theory." In Historians on John Gower. Ed. Stephen H. Rigby, with Siân Echard (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019), pp. 381-424.

Wright, Thomas, ed. Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History. 2 vols. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859, 1:417-54.

Astell, Ann W. "Political Allegory in Late Medieval England." Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999

Beer, Lewis. "Polarized Debates, Ambivalent Judgments: The 'Jugement Behaigne' and the 'Confessio Amantis'." 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. 217-39.

Kane, George. "Poets and the Poetics of Sin [1989]." In Daniel Donoghue, Daniel, James Simpson, Nicholas Watson, eds. The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press, 2010. Pp. 1-19.

Green, Richard Firth. "Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages." Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980

Pangilinan, Maria Cristina Santos. "Poetry and London learning: Chaucer, Gower, Usk, Langland and Hoccleve." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

Muscatine, Charles. Poetry and Crisis in the Age of Chaucer. South Bend, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 1974, pp. 24-25

Urban, Malte. "Poetics of the Past, Politics of the Present." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2005. Fully accessible via https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/poetics-of-the-past-politics-of-the-present/ (accessed April 6, 2026).

Horsley, Katharine Frances. "Poetic visions of London Civic Ceremony, 1360-1440." PhD thesis, Harvard University, 2004.

Braswell, Mary Flowers. "Poet and Sinner: Literary Characterization and the Mentality of the Late Middle Ages." Fifteenth-Century Studies 10 (1984): 39-56.

Nicholson, Peter. "Poet and Scribe in the Manuscripts of Gower's Confessio Amantis." In Manuscripts and Texts: Editorial Problems in Later Middle English Literature. Ed. Pearsall, Derek. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987, pp. 130-142.

White, Beatrice. "Poet and Peasant." In F. R. H. Du Boulay and Caroline M. Barron, eds., The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack. (London: Athlone, 1971). Pp. 58-74.

Carlson, David R., ed., and A. G. Rigg, trans. John Gower: Poems on Contemporary Events: The "Visio Anglie" (1381) and "Cronica tripertita" (1400). Toronto and Oxford: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and Bodleian Library, 2011 ISBN 9780888441744 (PIMS); 9781851242900 (Bodleian Library)

Coxe, Rev. H. O., ed. Poema quod dicitur Vox clamantis, necnon Chronica tripartita. London: Roxburghe Club, 1850. Unrestricted access at http://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10800469-2. Accessed June 15, 2022.

Iwasaki, Haruo. "Pleonastic 'as' in Gower's Confessio Amantis." In Philologia Anglica: Essays Presented to Professor Yoshio Terasawa on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. Oshitari, Kinshiro, and others. Tokyo: Kenkyushi, 1988, pp. 176-183.

Rogers, Will. "Playing Prosthesis and Revising the Past: Gower's Supplemental Role." Chapter 4 in Will Rogers, Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England (Leeds, UK: Arc Humanities Press, 2021). Pp. 103-24.

Knapp, Ethan. "Place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio Amantis." In John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition. Ed. Dutton, Elisabeth, and Hines, John, and Yeager, R.F. Cambridge: Brewer, 2010, pp. 26-34.

Owen, Charles A., Jr. Pilgrimage and Storytelling in the Canterbury Tales: The Dialectic of 'Ernest' and 'Game.' Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977, pp. 22n, 25, 74.

Pauli, Reinhold. Pictures of Old England. Translated by E.C. Otto. London: Macmillan, 1861, pp. 212-16, 220-26. Argues

Coleman, Joyce. "Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal--and Patron of the Gower Translations?" In England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Changes. Ed. Bullón-Fernández, María. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 135-65.

Wood, Chauncey. "Petrarchanism in the Confessio Amantis." Mediaevalia 16 (1993), pp. 239-256.

Dean, Paul. "Pericles' Pilgrimage." Essays in Criticism 50.2 (Apr 2000): 125-44.

Hoeniger, F. David, ed. Pericles. The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 1963, pp. xiii-xix, xliiin.

Ward, Jessica D. "Penitentials to Poetry: The Literary Critique of Avarice in Fourteenth-Century England." Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2019. 218 pp. DAI A81.01 (2019). Full text accessible at http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Ward_uncg_0154D_12677.pdf (unrestricted); accessed February 22, 2022.

Gould, Cynthia Marie. "Penitential Fictions, the Trial of Courtly Love, and the Emancipation of Story in the 'Legend of Good Women' and the 'Confessio Amantis'." PhD thesis, Northwestern University, 1994.

Parkes, Malcolm. "Patterns of Scribal Activity and Revisions of the Text in Early Copies of Works by John Gower." In New Science out of Old Books[:] Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Essays in Honour of A.I. Doyle. Ed. Beadle, Richard and Piper, A.J.. London: Scolar, 1995, pp. 81-121.

Dimmick, Jeremy Neil. "Patterns of Ethics and Politics in John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Cambridge, 1997. Index to Theses, with Abstracts: Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 47.3 (1998), no. 5506. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.19.

Peck, Russell A. "Patriarchy, Family, and Law in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." In Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager. Ed. Susannah Mary Chewning. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 59-78.

Urban, Malte. "Past and Present: Gower's use of Old Books in Vox Clamantis." In John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Ed. Urban, Malte. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009, pp. 175-94.

Ito, Masayoshi. "Paronomasia in 'Vox Clamantis'." Bulletin of College of General Education, Tohoku University 6 (1967), pp. 21-35. [ISSN 0287-8844]. English version in Ito's John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 199-213.

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

Pérez-Fernández, Tamara. "Paratextual Deviations: The Transmission and Translation of Gower's Confessio Amantis in the Iberian Peninsula." In Martha Driver, Derek Pearsall, and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Publications of the John Gower Society, no. 14. Rochester, NY: Brewer, 2020. Pp. 113-30.

Williams, Deanne. "Papa Don't Preach: The Power of Prolixity in 'Pericles'." University of Toronto Quarterly 71.2 (Spring 2002): 595-622.

Merivale, Patricia. Pan the Goat-god: His Myth in Modern Times. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969, pp. 16, 240n40, 254n2

Galloway, Andrew. "Ovid in Chaucer and Gower." In A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid, ed. John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands (Chichester: Blackwell, 2014), 187-201. ISBN: 9781444339673.

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.

Mahoney, John L. "Ovid and Medieval Courtly Love Poetry." Classical Folia 15 (1961): 14-27.

Policardi, Silvio. Outlines of English Literature. 2d ed. rev. Padua: Cedam, 1944, pp. 50, 59, 157.

Block, Edward A. "Originality, Controlling Purpose, and Craftsmanship in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'." PMLA 68 (1953): 572-616.

Rogers, Will. "One Voice, Ancient and Resigned." Accessus 5.2 (2019): n.p.

Raleigh, Sir Walter. On Writing and Writers: Being Extracts from His Notebooks. Selected and edited by George Gordon. London: Edward Arnold, 1926, p. 105.

Kanno, Masahiko. "On the Vocabulary of John Gower." Studies in Foreign Language (Aichi University of Education) 9 (1971): 117-24.

Skeat, Walter W. "On the Relations Between the Works of Chaucer and Gower." Academy, no. 1089 (March 1893): 266.

Manly, John Matthews. "On the Question of the Portuguese Translation of Gower's Confessio Amantis." Modern Philology 27.4 (1930), pp. 467-472.

Weiskott, Eric. "On the Oxymora in John Gower's 'Est amor in glosa'." Notes and Queries 69 (2022): 273-77.

Ito, Masayoshi. "On the New Trends of Gower Studies." Shiron 19 (1968): 68-78.

Ito, Masayoshi. "On the English Translation (by E. W. Stockton) of 'Vox Clamantis'." Bulletin of College of General Education, Tohoku University 18 (1973), pp. 1-17 [ISSN 0287-8844]. English version in Ito's John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 139-55.

Magnani, Roberta, and Diane Watt. "On the Edge: Chaucer and Gower's Queer Glosses." postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 9 (2018), 269-88.

Smith, Jeremy. "On Scriptae: Correlating Spelling and Script in Late Middle English." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 80 (2020): 13–27.

Lawlor, John. "On Romanticism in the Confessio Amantis." In Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis. Ed. Lawlor, John. London: Edward Arnold, 1966, pp. 122-140.

Patch, Howard Rollin. On Rereading Chaucer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1939, pp. 17, 35-36, 47, 102, 120, 130, 179, 186-87, 191-92, 194, 199.

Swart, J. On Re-reading William Dunbar. In Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honor of Rossell Hope Robbins (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1974), pp. 201-09.

Schlauch, Margaret. "On John Gower's Poem in Praise of Peace." Acta Philologica 9 (1979): 161-67.

Yeager, R. F., ed. "On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium." Studies in Medieval Culture, 46 . Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007

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

Warwick, W. "On Gower, The Kentish Poet, His Character and Works." Archaeologia Cantiana (1866), pp. 83-107.