A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis

Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower Society

First comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their features.

About the author

The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

Summary

Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower SocietyFirst comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their features.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Linne R. Mooney, Linne R Mooney, Derek Pearsall, Linne R. Mooney
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2021
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781843846130
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-613-0
• Pages: 420
• Illustrations: 8 colour illus.
• Dimensions (packing): 24 x 49 x 3.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 878 g
• Series: Publications of the John Gower Society; Publications of the John Gower > 15