The "Secreta Secretorum" in English Thought and Literature from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, with a Preliminary Study of the Arabic Origins of the "Secreta."

Author/Editor
Manzalaoui, Mahmoud.

Title
The "Secreta Secretorum" in English Thought and Literature from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, with a Preliminary Study of the Arabic Origins of the "Secreta."

Published
Manzalaoui, Mahmoud. "The 'Secreta Secretorum' in English Thought and Literature from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, with a Preliminary Study of the Arabic Origins of the 'Secreta'." D.Phil. Dissertation, Oxford University, 1954, pp. 405-69.

Review
Discusses Gower's use of the "Secretum" in Books VI and VII of the CA, and his growing disillusion with Richard II as revealed in the revisions. [RFY1981]

Date
1954

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis