I International Congress of the John Gower Society 2008

First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower” 12-16 July 2008, London 2008 marked the 600th anniversary of John Gower’s death. To commemorate this event, the John Gower Society, in conjunction with Cardiff University, Queen Mary...

MS Add 59495: The Trentham Manuscript

British Library MS Additional 59495: The Trentham Manuscript British Library MS Additional 59495, known to early editors and modern Gower scholars alike as the Trentham Manuscript, is extraordinarily important to the study of Gower, given both its provenance and its...

Gower Society Officers

President R. F. Yeager, Univ. of West Florida (emeritus)Dept. of English and Foreign Language11000 University Pkwy, Pensacola FL 32514Phone: (wk) 850-474-2927rfyeager@hotmail.com Vice President AJ Minnis Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, emeritus Yale...

John Hurt Fisher Award

The John Hurt Fisher Prize Now Accepting Nominations  The Society’s highest honor, the Fisher Prize is awarded for “significant contribution to the field of John Gower Studies.” The Fisher Prize is presented at anually at the Medieval Congress in...