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Enfeoffment to Use, Legalism, and Humanism in Gower's Mirour de l'Omme
Ist Teil von
Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2023-01, Vol.122 (1), p.86-106
Ort / Verlag
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The preponderance of legal vocabulary in John Gower's Anglo-Norman poem Mirour de l'Omme (finished in the 1370s) has attracted the attention of many literary critics, who have noted the paradoxical juxtaposition of a bitter satire of the legal profession and a heavy reliance on allegorized legal devices for the purpose of moral didacticism. Abundant critical attention has been paid to the relationship between the legal mechanism of property ownership and moral allegory in this text. This essay extends this line of criticism but shifts the focus from the Mirour's metaphors and moral implications deriving from Gower's acquisition of property to those related to Gower's use and disposal of the manor of Aldington, his major property in Kent.