Historians on John Gower
Historians on John Gower. Edited by Stephen Rigby, with Siân Echard. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2019. [Brewer catalogue] Siân Echard D.S. Brewer 2019 John Gower’s poetry offers an important and immediate response to the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life and his works from an historical angle, bringing out fresh new […]
Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken, Editors Edinburgh University Press 2019 Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses […]