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Journal Article
\Profitable\ Gower: Commonplacing and the Early Modern Confessio Amantis
2022
Overview
Ensley discusses how readers responded to the sixteenth-century editions of Gower's Confessio Amantis, and demonstrates the continued vitality of this text even as its print presence declined. Certainly, the multilingual Catholic Gower seems an unlikely source for Early Modern readers interested in refining an English Protestant identity. However, readers' responses to the Confessio reveal that the medieval poet's work - though relatively absent from the early print marketplace - was not entirely distanced from Early Modern reading habits. Indeed, as we will see, many of Gower's Early Modern readers engaged in a practice of humanist commonplacing that was used for medieval and classical authors alike. Both Chaucer and Gower were read for their \"profit\" and \"sententiae.\"
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
