England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422.

Author/Editor
Strohm, Paul

Title
England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422.

Published
Strohm, Paul. "England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422." New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998

Review
One might expect Gower, with his revisions in both CA and VC and with his "Cronica Tripertita," to occupy a significant place in a study of the Lancastrian enlistment of both poetry and history in their quest for legitimacy in the first decades of the fifteenth century, but Strohm mentions our poet only once, and without reference to Gower's participation in Henry's cause. [PN. Copyright The John Gower Society. JGN 18.1]

Date
1998

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism