Historians on John Gower

STEPHEN H. RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. STEPHEN H. RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After the Black Death. Economy, society and the law in fourteenth-century England (2021). James Davis is a reader in medieval history at Queen's University Belfast. He has published widely on the economic and social history of late medieval England, with a focus on markets, trade and small towns. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces. MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.

• Preface: Gower in Context - Sian Echard and Stephen RigbyChronology of Gower's Life Records - Martha CarlinGower's Life - Martha CarlinGower's Works - Stephen RigbyNobility and Chivalry - David GreenThe Peasants and the Great Revolt - Mark BaileyTowns and Trade - James DavisMen of Law - Anthony MussonThe Papacy, Secular Clergy and Lollardy - David N LepineMonastic Life - Martin HealeThe Friars - Jens U. RohrkastenWomen and Power - Katherine J. LewisMasculinity - Christopher FletcherPolitical Theory - Stephen RigbyGower, Richard II and Henry IV - Michael J BennettNatural Sciences - Seb FalkSelect Bibliography

A rich and substantial addition not only to Gower scholarship but also to our knowledge of late fourteenth-century England.