JAMES GOWER MEDIEVAL POETRY ALAN LILLE ANTICLAUDIANUS CONFESSIO AMANTIS HUMANISM

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille’s “Anticlaudianus” and John Gower’s “Confessio Amantis” by James Simpson Cambridge University Press, NY, 1995. Good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, notes & underlining to text, signature of previous owner and price sticker to ffep. 8vo, index, […]

Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry by James Simpson – 9780521021111

ISBN-13: 9780521021111, 978-0521021111. Both poems are examples of the Bildungsroman, in which the self reaches its fullness only by traversing an educational cursus in the related sciences of ethics, politics and cosmology, but as this study shows, there are very different modes of thought behind their conceptions of selfhood and education.