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Article: Pre-texts: tables of contents and the reading of John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis.'
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 1997
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The forty-nine surviving English manuscripts(1) of John Gower's Confessio Amantis are noteworthy for their remarkably high quality and consistency, features which have shaped much of the investigation of the manuscripts since. In his 1900 edition, G. C. Macaulay detected in the early history of the text `a steady tendency to rid itself of error', and added that `the process of corruption in the ordinary sense [could] hardly be said to have set in until after the death of the author'.(2) The suggestion of authorial control which underlies these remarks was amplified by John Fisher into the theory that Gower oversaw his own scriptorium at St Mary Overeys.(3) While the ...
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