John Gower's Use of the "Ovide moralisé": A Reconsideration.

Author / Editor
Yeager, R. F.

Title
John Gower's Use of the "Ovide moralisé": A Reconsideration.

Published
Catherine Gaullier-Bourgasses and Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, eds. Réécritures et adaptations de l'Ovide Moralisé (xive--xviie siècle) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022), pp. 51–67

Description
Challenges Conrad Mainzer's evidence that Gower was influenced by the "Ovide moralisé" and/or the "Ovidius moralizatus" of Pierre Bersuire, arguing that closer, more likely parallels exist between Gower's work and BD and LGW.

Contributor
Gaullier-Bourgasses, Catherine, ed.
Possamaï-Pérez, Marylène, ed.

Alternative Title
Réécritures et adaptations de l'Ovide Moralisé

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
Legend of Good Women