Table of Contents
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Introduction: Gower Scholarship Then and Now
PART I - WORKING THEORIES: MEDIEVAL AND MODERN
Gower and Theory: Old Books, New Matters
Jonathan Hsy, The George Washington University
Gower and Gender
María Bullón-Fernández, Seattle University
Gower and Rhetoric
Kim Zarins, California State University at Sacramento
Gower’s Religions
R.F. Yeager, University of West Florida
John Gower and the Law: Legal Theory and Practice
Conrad van Dyk, Concordia University of Edmonton
PART II – THINGS AND PLACES: MATERIAL CULTURES
John Gower’s Manuscripts in Middle English
Joe Fredell, Southeastern Louisiana University
Gower’s French Manuscripts
Craig E. Bertolet, Auburn University
Gower’s Latin Manuscripts
Stephanie Batkie, University of the South
Iberian Manuscripts of Gower’s Works
Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, University of Valladolid
Illuminations in Gower’s Manuscripts
Joyce Coleman, University of Oklahoma
Gower’s Southwark
Martha Carlin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Gower’s Courts
Matthew Giancarlo, University of Kentucky
Gower, Business, and Economy
Roger Ladd, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Gower and Science
Russell A. Peck, University of Rochester
Gower’s Reception, 1400–1700
Robert R. Edwards, Pennsylvania State University
Iberian Gower
Clara Pascual-Argente, Rhodes College
PART III – POLYVOCALITY: TEXT AND LANGUAGE
Gower’s Languages
Tim Machan, University of Notre Dame
Voices and Narrators
Matthew W. Irvin, University of the South
Gower and the Forms of History
Steele Nowlin, Hampden-Sydney College
Gower’s Classicizing Vocations
Andrew Galloway, Cornell University
Gower and Romance
Corinne Saunders, Durham University
Gower and Chaucer
Brian Gastle, Western Carolina University
The French Works: The Ballades
Peter Nicholson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The French Works: Mirour de l’Omme
Craig E. Bertolet, Auburn University
English Works
Yoshiko Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
The Latin Works
Robert Meindl, California State University, Sacramento
Notes on Contributors
About the Author
Ana Sáez-Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.
Brian Gastle is Professor of English at Western
Carolina University, USA.
R.F. Yeager is Professor of English at the
University of West Florida, USA.
Reviews
"This impressive work is the most comprehensive monograph on Gower
up to date."- Amanda Roi-Marin, University of Cambridge, UK"The
Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is a rich contribution
to the field of Gower studies, one whose scope is laudably
ambitious. Among the collection’s strengths are its efforts to
foreground the trilingual, transnational, and manuscript contexts
of the po-et’s work and legacy. These chapters offer an invitation
to new conversations and suggest av-enues for future research.
Gower studies, as this collection witnesses, continues to grow,
transform, and respond to contemporary scholarly concerns; the
poet’s multilingual legacy, now as much as ever, occupies a
meaningful place in our field in the midst of a mutable, di-vided,
and ever-renewing world."- Sarah V. Torres, University of Virginia,
USA, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
