Gower's Source Manuscript of Nicholas Trevet's 'Les Cronicles'

Author / Editor
Correale, Robert M.

Title
Gower's Source Manuscript of Nicholas Trevet's 'Les Cronicles'

Published
R. F. Yeager, ed. John Gower: Recent Readings. Papers Presented at the Meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-1988 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989), 133-57.

Description
Tabulates correspondences between Gower's Tale of Constance ("Confessio Amantis" 2.587-1598) and available manuscripts of Trevet's Anglo-Norman original, seeking to identify Gower's source manuscript. Includes recurrent attention to Chaucer's MLT, its source manuscript, and the relations among the three versions of the Constance story.

Alternative Title
John Gower: Recent Readings. Papers Presented at the Meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-1988.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations