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Geoffrey Chaucer. He is
remembered primarily for
three major works—the
Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and
Confessio Amantis—three long
poems written...
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Mirour de l'Omme ("the
mirror of mankind") (also
Speculum Hominis),
which has the
Latin title Speculum Meditantis ("mirror of meditation"), is an Anglo-Norman...
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translated into Anglo-Norman
around the
second half of the
thirteenth century as
Mirour de
Seinte Eglyse ('a
mirror of the holy Church'), a
treatise about the Christian...
- Amantis, and in
certain didactic p****ages of the Vox
Clamantis and the
Mirour de l'Omme, that
Astrology figures most
largely in his works ... Gower's...
- were
written in the 1370s
while the
author was
writing similar p****ages in
Mirour de l'Omme.: 104
Wickert divides the m****cripts into two groups: A-text...
- (fifth century), John of Salisbury's
Policraticus (1159), John Gower's
Mirour de l'Omme, and
Geoffrey Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales.
Epicurus and his followers...
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Third first created his
eldest sonne Edward surnamed the
Blacke Prince, the
Mirour of
Chivalrie (being then Duke of
Cornwall and
Earle of Chester), Prince...
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higher wages. The poet John
Gower warned against a ****ure
revolt in both
Mirour de l'Omme and Vox Clamantis.
There was a
moral panic about the
threat posed...
- meditantis, the "Mirror of Meditations" (usually
known by its
French title Mirour de l'Omme),
written by John Gower.
Speculum perfectionis,
written by Brother...
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widespread in England, and
Whetstone followed its
dictates in his
prose tract A
Mirour for
Magestrates (1584),
which in a
second edition was
called A Touchstone...
