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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Cook&#039;s Tale,&quot; 4422.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Encourages editors to adopt the manuscript variant &quot;his&quot; (rather than &quot;hir&quot;) at the end of the Cook&#039;s fragment (CkT 1.4422), which would indicate that the wife prostituted herself &quot;not to make her own living, but in order to provide money for her husband.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Trouble at the Mill: Madness, Merrymaking, and Milling.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the role of the mill in northern Europe as a site of merry-making and festival that newly informs Chaucer&#039;s Miller and MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Apes and Japes: Laughter and Animality in the &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that, rooted in &quot;animality&quot; that is &quot;carefully performed and constructed,&quot; the humor of MilT &quot;functions to erect a conception of humanity over and against the ostracized and inferior semi-human.&quot; The Miller performs his animality, and, abjecting Absolon through laughter, Alisoun and Nicholas establish a hierarchy and take the &quot;position of superior &#039;human.&#039;&quot; Comments on suggestive language in the tale and connections with Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; 7.1, displaying ways that &quot;laughter [is] always unequal.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;They weren no thing ydel&quot;: Noblemen and Their Supporters in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knights Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers KnT alongside didactic texts of the period to clarify how chivalric loyalty controls and ties men together.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Textual Variations and Readings among the Manuscripts and Editions of &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot;: With Special Reference to &quot;The Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines linguistic features of Pynson&#039;s and de Worde&#039;s editions of KnT and discusses similarities to and difference from each other, Caxton&#039;s editions, and the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arcite&#039;s Overheard Song: &quot;The Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Prosimetrum &quot;Tristan en prose.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores prosimetrum in the Arthurian &quot;Tristan en prose&quot; as a way to understand Palamon&#039;s actions after he overhears Arcite&#039;s &quot;formally elegant rondeau&quot; in KnT 1.1510ff.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Ȝhat art þou?&quot; Spiritual Identity and Category Confusion in the South English Legendary&#039;s Life of St. Christopher.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the connection between physicality and personality in St. Christopher&#039;s hagiography in the &quot;South English Legendary&quot; and, in expanding this connection, uses Chaucer&#039;s descriptions of the Miller and the Wife of Bath in GP as additional examples.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275140">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pre-History of Proles, 1380-1800: Chaucer, News Ballads, the English Civil War and Boswell.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Opens a volume of essays on the journalistic practice of &quot;painting a picture [of a person] in words,&quot; including discussion of the depiction of a &quot;cross-section of Chaucer&#039;s contemporary English society&quot; in CT--in GP and elsewhere--with particular attention to the &quot;pen portraits&quot; of the Knight, Miller, and Prioress as they reveal &quot;the real-world mores and concerns&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s time.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275139">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[X-Raying Chaucer: Pointing the Way.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the opening of GP (lines 1–18) as a periodic sentence that &quot;builds to a main clause near its end,&quot; describes its thematic concern with rebirth and regeneration, and explores the possibility of regarding weather as character or as a metaphor in GP 1–18 and in the opening of Dickens&#039;s &quot;Bleak House.&quot; Closes with several &quot;Lessons&quot; for creative writers derived from the reading.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275138">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Why Stay at the Tabard? Public Inns and Their Amenities c. 1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Distinguishes among taverns, alehouses, and public inns, providing historical evidence that the latter were in Chaucer&#039;s day a &quot;new institution,&quot; and maintaining that his setting of the opening of GP in an inn engages an emergent social culture, innovative in its amenities and diversity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents a multidisciplinary &quot;theory of the marvelous&quot; in Middle English literature. Focuses on how fourteenth-century texts, including CT, &quot;represent a coherent and previously unrecognized theory of the marvelous, one focused on the intersection of the magical, the spectacular, and the moral.&quot; Discusses how Chaucer&#039;s focus on morality in CT, with special emphasis in WBT and SqT, also represents his &quot;spectacles of language.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mimesis on Trial: Legal and Literary Verisimilitude in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Makes the case that Boccaccio responds in the many trial scenes of the &quot;Decameron&quot; to contemporary concerns about verisimilitude in judicial proceedings. Claims that Boccaccio shifts in the role of judicial figures from mediators to determiners of fact in an inquisitorial model, providing a pattern that Chaucer follows in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275135">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chivalry and the Wise Watchman: A Study of Patience, Penance, and the Homeward Journey in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes imagery of worthiness in TC and CT, compared with John Gower&#039;s &quot;Mirour de l&#039;omme,&quot; &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and Geffroi de Charny&#039;s &quot;Book of Chivalry.&quot; Focuses on patience, penance, pilgrimage, and the &quot;timing for one&#039;s acts,&quot; exploring uses of Dante&#039;s &quot;Paradiso&quot; in TC, and analyzing Harry Bailly as time-keeper in CT (especially MLP), a role in which the Parson eventually replaces him (in ParsP), signaled by references to the biblically auspicious tenth hour. Rejects editorial emendation of &quot;Ten&quot; to &quot;Foure&quot; at ParsP 10.5.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distant Mirrors: Medieval London in the Narratives of Geoffrey Chaucer and Peter Ackroyd.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes (and reiterates) appreciation of Ricardian culture, exploring ways that Chaucer evokes a strong sense of contemporary London in CT and how, in &quot;The Clerkenwell Tales,&quot; Peter Ackroyd evokes a similar sense of reality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275133">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bird Sounds and the Framing of &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the birdsong of GP, line 9, and the silencing of the crow in ManT indicate &quot;the permeable animal/human boundary&quot; in CT, evidence of a mutual &quot;soundscape&quot; or a shared &quot;acoustic community.&quot; Includes comments on avian and human communication elsewhere in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275132">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Are the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; a Book?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in their ordering of Chaucer&#039;s text and in their various and dynamic forms, manuscripts of CT successfully instantiate Chaucer&#039;s dynamic idea of his text, the complex conditions for pre-print book production, and the disaggregated forms of the medieval codex. CT is thus shaped as an answer to the question posted by the title--Are the Canterbury Tales a book?--and to some of Chaucer&#039;s broader questions, about experience, authority, and the limits to human modes of knowing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275131">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feeling Bureaucratic: Political Poetry, Affective Rhetoric, and Parliamentary Process in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses CT and PF, among other texts, to examine the development and contemporary understanding of the concept of English Parliament.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pilgrims and Partridges (1350-1550).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of food, drink, abstinence, feasting, gluttony, hunting, etc. in CT (pp. 35-52), observing Chaucer&#039;s consistent attention to moral and social implications, and comparing his depictions with those found in &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Gifts: Exchange and Value in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;gift economy&quot; and commercial culture of CT, and applies gift theory and economic anthropology to medieval literary criticism. Examines &quot;gender of the gift,&quot; exchange of women, and gifts in GP. Chapter 6 focuses on the Franklin&#039;s gifts in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprises thirty-six &quot;introductory essays for first-time, university-level readers&quot; of CT, written by more than thirty &quot;professional scholars,&quot; covering GP and each of the tales (two each for KnT, WBPT, and MerT), the Host and frame, Chaucer&#039;s language, his life, social conditions of his time (two chapters), the manuscripts of CT, together with a symposium that includes twelve responses to reading Chaucer. Each essay is PDF-downloadable, with study questions and bibliography; many include hyperlinks to related online material. The website is searchable and freely accessible, includes a &quot;User&#039;s Guide&quot; and a site menu on each page, and promises to add materials in the future. For the individual essays, search for The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275127">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Name in Chinese.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines translations of Chaucer&#039;s name in light of Chinese traditions, specifically with regard to a family&#039;s values and wishes revealed through name choice.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tears.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers tears in devotional contexts as a model for viewing tears &quot;as a mode of discourse that is as potent as it is paradoxical: both outward and inward, involuntary and applied, and forming a distinctive voice between passive and active.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275125">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Concordia discors&quot;: The Traveling Heart as Foreign Object in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores relations among imagery of hearts, transplanting, &quot;bodily estrangement,&quot; and travel in TC, focusing on Criseyde, her brooch, her dream of the eagle, her departure from Troy, and how she &quot;begins to embody foreignness by the end of the narrative.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Physics: Motion in &quot;The House of Fame.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses &quot;Chaucer&#039;s engagement with the concept of movement&quot; in HF, exploring how three scenes of motion (the eagle&#039;s descent, the eagle&#039;s lecture on movement and sound, and the whirling House of Rumor) engage with William of Ockham&#039;s &quot;Brevis summa libri physicorum&quot; and his &quot;Expositio in libros physicorum Aristotelis.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Building Bridges in Canterbury.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Combines ecocriticism and mobility studies to address the &quot;medieval bridge as an icon of hybridity: a cultural artifact that commingles human/animal movement, architectural stasis, and the natural world (blood, stone, and water).&quot; Then explores how the pilgrimage motif and the &quot;literal and metaphorical bridges&quot; in the frame narrative of CT suggest &quot;an emerging category of geographically-determined identity in the fourteenth century&quot; that is dialectical and &quot;fundamentally hybrid.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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