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47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2012)
Session 64: Dour Gower (Thursday, 1:30 Valley I)
Sponsor: John Gower Society Organizer: R. F. Yeager, Univ. of West Florida Presider: R. F. Yeager
- Dour Gower? Humor, Satire, and Hope in Gower Roger A. Ladd, Univ. of North Carolina–Pembroke
- The Lover’s Silence: Earnest Amans and Focus of the Confessio amantis Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College
- Not So Dour Gower: Gower’s Unsettling Humor S. T. Meecham-Jones, Univ. of Cambridge/Swansea Univ.
- Droll Gower James M. Dean, Univ. of Delaware
Session 109: Middle English Chronicle and Romance
Presider: Betsy Bowden, Rutgers Univ.–Camden
- Literacy, Learning, and the Arthurian University of the Liberal Arts in Chronicle Contexts Caroline D. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania State Univ.
- Marginalized Genre: The Romances of Lincoln’s Inn 150 and their Chronicle Notes Nicole Eddy, Univ. of Notre Dame
- Exile and Sovereign Power in Gower’s Chronica tripertita Craig E. Bertolet, Auburn Univ.
- Havelok the Dane: Kingship, Hunger and Purveyance Daniel M. Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic Univ.
Session 111: Short Gower (Thursday 3:30pm Valley I 105)
Sponsor: John Gower Society Organizer: R. F. Yeager, Univ. of West Florida Presider: Alastair J. Minnis, Yale Univ.
- Death of the Sycophant: Gower’s Last Works in Their Anti-Lancastrian Context Michael Livingston, The Citadel
- English Voice and French Form in the Cinkante Balades Ruen-chuan Ma, Columbia Univ.
- Time, Law, and the Word in Rex celi deus Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
- Iberian Sources for Gower’s “Tale of Three Questions” Frederick M. Biggs, Univ. of Connecticut
Business Meeting - Thursday 9:00 Fetzer 2020
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