Did John Gower Rededicate his Confessio Amantis before Henry IV’s Usurpation?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Contributors xii
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Abbreviations xiv
7. Preface xv
8. Chaucer, Gower and Langland
9. The Early History of the Scriveners’ Company Common Paper and its So-Called ‘Oaths’ 1
10. Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 201 and its Copy of Piers Plowman 21
11. Did John Gower Rededicate his Confessio Amantis before Henry IV’s Usurpation? 40
12. Le Songe Vert, BL Add. MS 34114 (the Spalding Manuscript), Bibliothèque de la ville de Clermont, MS 249 and John Gower 75
13. Lyrics and Romances
14. Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 33: Thoughts on Reading a Work in Progress 88
15. The Rawlinson Lyrics: Context, Memory and Performance 104
16. Linguistic Boundaries in Multilingual Miscellanies: The Case of Middle English Romance 116
17. What Six Unalike Lyrics in British Library MS Harley 2253 Have Alike in Manuscript Layout 125
18. Devotional Writings
19. Evidence for the Licensing of Books from Arundel to Cromwell 134
20. Bishops, Patrons, Mystics and Manuscripts: Walter Hilton, Nicholas Love and the Arundel and Holland Connections 159
21. The Choice and Arrangement of Texts in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125: A Tentative Narrative about its Material History 177
22. ‘Thys moche more ys oure lady mary longe’: Takamiya MS 56 and the English Birth Girdle Tradition 199
23. Owners and Users of Medieval Books
24. Bookish Types: Some Post-Medieval Owners, Borrowers and Lenders of the Manuscripts of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy 220
25. Laurentius Guglielmus Traversagnus and the Genesis of Vaticana Codex Lat. 11441, with Remarks on Bodleian MS Laud Lat. 61 241
26. The Travels of a Quire from the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First: The Case of Rawlinson B 484, fols. 1–6 250
27. William Elstob’s Planned Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Laws: A Remnant in the Takamiya Collection 268
28. A Tribute to Professor Takamiya
29. Gutenberg Meets Digitization: The Path of a Digital Ambassador 297
30. A Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya 306
31. Index of Manuscripts 319
32. General Index 323
33. Tabula Gratulatoria 333
34. YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS: PUBLICATIONS 337