'A bok for king Richardes sake': Royal Patronage, the Confessio, and the Legend of Good Women

Author / Editor
Coleman, Joyce.

Title
'A bok for king Richardes sake': Royal Patronage, the Confessio, and the Legend of Good Women

Published
R. F. Yeager, ed. On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 46. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, pp. 104-23.

Description
Coleman considers the first recension of Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and the F version of LGWP for evidence of royal patronage, arguing that both were inspired by Anne of Bohemia and by the popularity of the "Flower and Leaf" conventions that Anne introduced to Richard's court.

Contributor
Yeager, R. F., ed.

Alternative Title
On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.