Gower's Source Manuscript of Nicholas Trevet's 'Les Cronicles'
- Author / Editor
- Correale, Robert M.
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