Courtly Love and the Confessional in English Literature from 1215 to John Gower.

Author/Editor
Fitzpatrick, John F.

Title
Courtly Love and the Confessional in English Literature from 1215 to John Gower.

Published
Fitzpatrick, John F. "Courtly Love and the Confessional in English Literature from 1215 to John Gower." Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1978. Dissertation Abstracts International A39.02. Full text accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed December 5, 2022.

Review
Gower built the CA around a union of two traditions--courtly love and penance. Central images are of priest/physician and lover/sick man. Studies the tradition in a range of literature from the penitentials and Alanus de Insulis's "De Planctu Naturae" through CA. [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1978

Gower Subjects
Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations