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Yoshiko Kobayashi, « In Search of Anglo-French Peace: The Didactic Epistles of John Gower and Philippe de Mézières », Éditions de la Sorbonne, ID : 10670/1.97i0w3
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In the months following the accession of Henry IV (r. 1399–1413) to England’s throne on 30 September 1399, John Gower (c. 1330–1408) composed an English poem in praise of peace, couched in the form of a verse epistle in rhyme royal and dedicated to the new monarch. The poem survives uniquely in a codex known as the Trentham manuscript, a collection of Gower’s trilingual poems (London, British Library, MS Add. 59495). The collection is punctuated by the poet’s repeated direct address to Henry...