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Introduction PART I. Manuscript Context Ruen-chuan Ma Vernacular Accessus: Text and Gloss in Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Christine de Pizan’s Épître Othéa Tamara Pérez-Fernández The Margins in the Iberian Manuscripts of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis: Language, Authority and Readership Rosemarie McGerr Gower’s Confessio and the Nova statuta Angliae: Royal Lessons in English Law PART II. Socio-historical Context Jerome Mandel Conflict Resolution in the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and in Gower’s “Tale of Florent” Misty Schieberle Controlling the Uncontrollable: Love and Fortune in Book I of the Confessio Amantis Katie Peebles Arguing from Foreign Grounds: John Gower’s Leveraging of Spain in English Politics PART III. Literary and Linguistic Context Linda Barney Burke “The Voice of One Crying”: John Gower, Christine de Pizan, and the Tradition of Elijah the Prophet Annika Farber Genius and the Practice of Ethical Reading Malte Urban Cracks and Fissures: Gower’s Poetics on the Edge Emily Houlik-Ritchey Rewriting Difference: “Saracens” in John Gower and Juan de Cuenca