War and Commonwealth in Mid-Tudor England.

Author/Editor
Lowe, Ben

Title
War and Commonwealth in Mid-Tudor England.

Published
Lowe, Ben. "War and Commonwealth in Mid-Tudor England." Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1990), pp. 171-191. ISSN 0361-0160

Review
Lowe cites Gower's comments on the war in CA 3 and VC 3 and 7 (pp. 175-77) in his discussion of fourteenth-century precedents for the humanist and post-Reformation critique of the notion of a "just war" and the advocacy of peace as most beneficial to the commonwealth. [PN. Copyright The John Gower Society. JGN 18.1]

Date
1990

Gower Subjects
Vox Clamantis
Confessio Amantis
Influence and Later Allusion