'A bok for king Richardes sake': Royal Patronage, the Confessio, and the Legend of Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Coleman, Joyce.
'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.