Mirour de l'Omme ("the mirror of mankind") (also Speculum Hominis), which has the Latin title Speculum Meditantis ("mirror of meditation"), is an Anglo-Norman...
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Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works—the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis—three long poems written in French...
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written in the 1370s while the author was writing similar passages in Mirour de l'Omme.: 104 Wickert divides the manuscripts into two groups:A-text (=Macaulay...
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meditantis, the "Mirror of Meditations" (usually known by its French title Mirour de l'Omme), written by John Gower. Speculum perfectionis, written by Brother...
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Amantis, and in certain didactic passages of the Vox Clamantis and the Mirour de l'Omme, that Astrology figures most largely in his works ... Gower's sources...
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wages. The poet John Gower warned against a future revolt in both Mirour de l'Omme and Vox Clamantis. There was a moral panic about the threat posed by...
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enseigner les enfants de leur entreparler comun françois, c. 1399 (Stengel, Z. für n.f. Spr. u. Litt. i. 11). The important Mirour de l'omme, by John Gower,...
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(fifth century), John of Salisbury's Policraticus (1159), John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Epicurus and his followers...
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University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-8047-1807-3. "The French Works: Mirour de l'Omme" by Craig E. Bertolet in Ana Saez-Hidalgo; Brian Gastle; R.F. Yeager...
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Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. His major works, the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, are united by common moral and...
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ISBN 9781603810906. Gower, John (1970). A Translation of John Gower's Mirour de L'omme. University of Miami. p. vii. Nicholson, Peter (1991). "Introduction"...
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audience's. Le Livre may have been a direct influence on John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme of later in the century; both are directed primarily to an English...
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