Art and Ethics in the Exempla of Confessio Amantis.

Author/Editor
Runacres, Charles

Title
Art and Ethics in the Exempla of Confessio Amantis.

Published
Runacres, Charles. "Art and Ethics in the Exempla of Confessio Amantis." In Gower's Confessio Amantis: Responses and Reassessments. Ed. Minnis, A. J. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983, pp. 106-134. ISBN 085991142X

Review
Presents Gower's tales as evolving from a conscious blend of "Aristotelian ethics (as reiterated by Brunetto Latini and Giles of Rome)" which based moral knowledge on observation and exemplum theory which "stressed the importance of particulars in human understanding through the (medieval) imagination. [PN. Copyright the John Gower Society. JGN 3.1]

Date
1983

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis