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The Voice Of One Crying, Robert J. Meindl, Mark T. Riley
The Voice Of One Crying, Robert J. Meindl, Mark T. Riley
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The first poetic English translation of the entirety of John Gower's Vox Clamantis
Preface To A New English Translation Of Gower's Vox Clamantis, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Preface To A New English Translation Of Gower's Vox Clamantis, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
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Preface to a new English translation of John Gower's Vox Clamantis
Foreword, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Foreword, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
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Foreword for Accessus volume 6, issue 1.
Foreword, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Foreword, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
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This foreword by Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury introduces Accessus volume 3, issue 2 to readers of the journal.
Semper Venalis: Gower's Avaricious Lawyers, Robert Meindl
Semper Venalis: Gower's Avaricious Lawyers, Robert Meindl
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The first three chapters of the sixth book of the Vox Clamantis (lines 1-248) comprise a harsh critique of the many avaricious lawyers who, in Gower’s opinion, have come to dominate their profession to the disadvantage of English society in the late fourteenth century. Driven exclusively by their appetite for possessions, they have forgotten the biblical model presented in Psalm 14 that specifies the obligation of the good man to assist without recompense his neighbor’s search for justice. Falsely claiming to be men of law and inheritors of the biblical model of the good man, the causidici (as Gower calls …
Preface, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Preface, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
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Co-editors Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury thank the readers of Accessus for an enthusiastic reception of the first issue and summarize the contents of this second issue. The second issue showcases opportunities inherent in online publishing, such as the ability to produce extended commentaries and offer video streams. Robert J. Meindl's "Semper Venalis: Gower's Avaricious Lawyers" and Linda Marie Zaerr's "How the Axe Falls: A Retrospective on Thirty-five Years of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Performance," respectively, realize these possibilities in online publishing while adding substantially and insightfully to our knowledge of important fourteenth-century poems from England.