Description: In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world.
Review Quotes: "A useful reading with the context of other coeval courtly works." --Speculum
"Offers fine reading of many tales; effectively creates a new thesaurus of core political concerns in the politics of the great household; and with the focus on instances in the Confessio, usefully enlarges and enriches inquiry into Gower's political orientation." --Journal of English and Germanic Philology