Godfrey of Viterbo's "Pantheon" and John Gower's "Confessio Amantis": The Story of Apollonius Retold
- Author/Editor
- Zweers, Thari L.
- Title
- Godfrey of Viterbo's "Pantheon" and John Gower's "Confessio Amantis": The Story of Apollonius Retold
- Published
- Zweers, Thari L. "Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon and John Gower's Confessio Amantis: The Story of Apollonius Retold." Accessus 5.1 (2019): n.p.
- Review
- Zweers "aims to provide a more complete insight into Gower's narrative construction of the 'Confessio' and the manuscript version of the 'Pantheon' that Gower most likely used as his guide." Beyond the "obvious debt" in Gower's reference to this text, Zweers points out the "strong thematic and stylistic similarities to Godfrey's work throughout Book VIII." Attempting to overcome any resistance to claims of Gower's use of "Pantheon," Zweers traces the critical reception of this textual connection as well as the reception history of "Pantheon." Gower acknowledges Godfrey's "auctoritas" at the beginning of the "Tale of Apollonius of Tyre," claims Zweers, before explaining how this tale about incest actually was crucial to ending CA through comparison and source study. Moving from this comparison, Zweers shows further thematic relationships between "Pantheon" and Book VIII of CA. She argues that it is a more fitting source for CA than the more commonly recognized source, "Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri." Zweers then systematically dissects Gower's text to show its indebtedness to Godfrey's "Pantheon." [JGS. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 39.2]
- Date
- 2019
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations