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Confessio Amantis, Volume 2: Bibliography

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Echard, Siân. “Dialogues and Monologues: Manuscript Representations of the Conversation of the Confessio Amantis .” In Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall. Ed. A. J. Minnis. York: York Medieval Press, 2001. Pp. 57–75.

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———. Gower and Lydgate. Ed. Geoffrey Bullough. Harlow: Longmans, Green & Co., 1969.

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———. Kingship and Common Profit in Gower’s Confessio Amantis. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978.

———.“St. Paul and the Canterbury Tales.” Mediaevalia 7 (1981), 91–131.

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