The Landowner's Book of Courtly Love: Languages of Lordship and the "Confessio amantis."

Author / Editor
Kendall, Elliot.

Title
The Landowner's Book of Courtly Love: Languages of Lordship and the "Confessio amantis."

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Oxford, 2003. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.36. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (accessed April 7, 2026).

Description
Item not seen. Kendall's abstract indicates that the "vision poetry" of both Chaucer and Sir John Clanvowe share "discursive territory" with Gower's "Confessio Amantis," particularly "concepts of the late fourteenth-century aristocratic household and the social structures it supported,"

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations