The Church of Love in the Works of Chaucer and Gower.

Author/Editor
Jacobson, John Howard.

Title
The Church of Love in the Works of Chaucer and Gower.

Published
Jacobson, John Howard. "The Church of Love in the Works of Chaucer and Gower." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1939. Dissertation Abstracts International A31.05. Available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed December 5, 2022.

Review
"The Church of Love is the poetic 'religion' of which the deities are the pagan Venus and Cupid and the religious forms of those of the Christian Church. The study seeks to determine how the Church of Love and the love-deities were employed in Latin and French before Chaucer and Gower and to what extent they followed their predecessors." Study mostly on Chaucer, but includes discussion of Gower's CA. [RFY1981; rev. MA]

Date
1939

Gower Subjects
Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations