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Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Author: James Simpson
This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3). James Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism, in which the concept of self is centered in th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521021111
ISBN-10: 0521021111
Publication Date: 10/13/2005
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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