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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale,&quot; B2, 4054.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that &quot;colour&quot; in the description of Chauntecleer (NPT 7.2864) means &quot;coler&quot; or &quot;neck&quot; rather than &quot;color.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274492">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Anne.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;appropriateness&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;only original and direct reference to St. Anne,&quot; in FrT 3.1613. Mentions Chaucer&#039;s two other references to St. Anne, derived from Dante, and offers evidence that Anne of Bohemia was associated with St. Anne and that both were aligned with Lincoln, part of the setting of FrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274491">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poetic Love.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the Christian and Platonic underpinnings of romantic love in Renaissance drama and poetry, exploring its roots in courtly traditions, and distinguishing it from love depicted by Augustan, Romantic, and modern writers. A section on Chaucer (pp. 42-56) maintains that Chaucer&#039;s depiction of courtly sentiment advances &quot;Petrarchan &#039;technique&#039;&quot; by testing courtly conventions and human nature &quot;against each other.&quot; KnT demonstrates the success of religious love over &quot;realist&quot; love, while Troilus&#039;s idealism in TC is counterpointed by the practical outlooks of Pandarus, Diomede, and Criseyde. The Marriage Group of CT explores &quot;more complex and mature loves in order to &quot;comment on life&quot;: WBT &quot;symbolizes&quot; the teller&#039;s &quot;deepest need for a man with enough erotic force to love her into beauty&quot;; the envoy of ClT provides &quot;therapeutic irony&quot; to redeem the ludicrous impracticality of the Tale; and in FranT Dorigen and Arveragus &quot;preserve in marriage the freedom and regard of romantic love&quot; while also preserving &quot;marriage itself against romantic dangers.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Reader&#039;s Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Chaucer&#039;s life and works to &quot;those who are new readers&quot; of the poet, evoking a sense of late-medieval life, especially London, Chaucer&#039;s court life, and international contexts. Explicates the tales and tellers of CT in thematic chapters, with emphasis on chivalry and courtliness, religion and philosophy (ecclesiastical offices, Lollards, pilgrimage, sexuality, Providence, fortune, and free will), science (astronomy and astrology, alchemy, physiology, and dream theory), social practice (trade, clothing, food and drink, status, manor and village life, entertainments), and literary forms. Describes more briefly similar concerns in BD, HF, PF, LGWP, and TC, closing with a brief glossary of Middle English, a bibliography, and an index.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Summoner: &quot;Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes&quot;, C.T. I, 634.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that the Summoner&#039;s fondness for &quot;overheating foods&quot; conveys lechery, adducing evidence from Reginald Pecock&#039;s fifteenth-century &quot;The Reule of Crysten Religioun.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274488">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dunbar&#039;s &quot;Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo&quot; 185-87 and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parson&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes that William Dunbar ridicules sexual impotence by means of the image of a dog ineffectively lifting its leg and maintains that the image and its implications derive from the &quot;striking (and probably original)&quot; use in ParsT 10.858, ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Essay on the Clerk&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the characters of Griselda and Walter in ClT, with particular attention to the diction associated with them: &quot;bountee&quot; and &quot;sadnesse&quot; for Griselda and &quot;shapen&quot; for Walter. Also examines the words the characters do and do not use.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274486">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Who&#039;s Who in Late Medieval England, 1272-1485.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Biographical dictionary of some 200 political and cultural people of late-medieval England, &quot;Englishmen&quot; and &quot;Englishwomen,&quot; along with &quot;foreigners prominent in English history,&quot; arranged chronologically by life-dates, with descriptive and interpretive entries, brief bibliographical listings, a list of prominent events, a glossary of terms, and an index of names. The entry for Chaucer (pp.153-54) emphasizes his linguistic and literary importance, and his role as a &quot;trusted, competent, and not undistinguished royal servant.&quot; Also includes entries for John Chaucer, John of Gaunt, John Gower. William Caxton, writers who influenced Chaucer, those influenced by him, and many others who figured in his life and works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[One Up for Clerks.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes ClT, describing it as a successful riposte to WBT and a victory for &quot;book-learning.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The April Date as a Structural Device in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the astrological data in GP and MLH establish the date of the beginning of the Canterbury pilgrimage as April 17, the same day as the departure of Noah&#039;s ark, evoking notions of sinfulness and salvific baptism, reinforced by imagery of springtime, echoed in the Flood imagery of MilT, and brought to fulfillment in the pilgrimage imagery of ParsPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Troilus of Book IV.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in Book 4 of TC Chaucer presents a &quot;conflict between reason and desire&quot; (amplified from Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot;), helping to characterize and evaluate Troilus as, simultaneously and ambiguously, &quot;both strong and weak,&quot; reasonable as a chivalric hero, but philosophically short-sighted.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Old Age and &quot;Contemptus Mundi&quot; in &quot;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the old man of PardT is neither a Messenger of Death nor Old Age personified, but a figure of the exemplary wisdom and virtue of the aged, set in contrast the youthful rioters and their foolish avarice. Compares Chaucer&#039;s &quot;aged stranger&quot; with analogous figures in Maximianus and Innocent III, showing how, patiently accepts the &quot;miseries of the world,&quot; he is aloof to its lures.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Self-Portrait in the &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Re-examines the narrator&#039;s eight-year sickness in BD, surveying previous commentary, and arguing that, unlike in Chaucer&#039;s French sources, the illness is insomnia rather than love-sickness and that God rather than a paramour is his only physician. As a &quot;non-lover&quot; in the poem, Chaucer uses this contrast with the Black Knight as a means to lead to consolation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Final Irony of the Pardoner&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the dramatic ironies of PardPT (comparing them with those of WBPT), arguing that the Pardoner does not reveal &quot;more than he intends, but rather the converse&quot;: that none of the pilgrims &quot;is able to see the full meaning of what he says&quot; because his falseness compels them to reject him and the valid morality of his sermon. Rejected by the pilgrims, he is the &quot;only unpardoned man&quot; on the road to Canterbury.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Squire as Story-Teller.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the Squire as a &quot;young man among his elders&quot; on the pilgrimage, describing his &quot;nervous, apologetic tone&quot; that derives from his uses and abuses of &quot;rhetorical decorum, &quot;tinged with &quot;self-regard&quot; and snobbish &quot;anti-intellectualism.&quot; The Franklins interrupts the &quot;rambling narrative&quot; to relieve the Squire&#039;s youthful efforts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274478">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Absolon and St. Neot.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the background and implications of the reference to &quot;seinte Note&quot; (St. Neot) and the possibility of punning in &quot;viritoot&quot; in MilT 1.3770-71.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Dealings with a Stanza of &quot;Il Filostrato&quot; and the Epilogue of &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Close comparison of passages in TC and their sources in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; discloses how Chaucer &quot;sets in motion&quot; early in his poem &quot;a train of events whose implications go far beyond the immediate moment, perhaps beyond the love story itself,&quot; evoking Boethian inevitability and the &quot;divinely implanted tendency of the human soul to strive to return to its true source.&quot; In this light, the epilogue is a &quot;logical conclusion&quot; to the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Prioress and the Sacrifice of Praise.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the Augustinian &quot;figurative implications&quot; of PrT, identifying a &quot;clear symbolic pattern&quot; evident in interpreting it Scripturally--the &quot;childishness&quot; of the teller and her protagonist, the literalness of the Jews, echoes of the liturgy of the Holy Innocents, the &quot;pit of misery,&quot; the multivalent symbolism of the &quot;greyn,&quot; the clergeon&#039;s &quot;speaking in tongues,&quot; and the glorification of Mary. Comments on resonances between PrT on the one hand, and ShT, NPT, and PardT on the other.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274475">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Promises in &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that FranT is one of Chaucer &quot;satiric masterpieces&quot; and that it reveals &quot;how ludicrously and inadequately the Franklin grasps the essence of gentle behavior.&quot; The Franklin is well intended, but the morality and reasoning of his Tale are flawed, evident particularly in his treatment of &quot;trouthe&quot; and promising. The &quot;ludicrous ethical acrobatics&quot; of the characters reveal the &quot;affectedly &#039;gentil&#039; values&quot; of the narrator, Chaucer&#039;s ironic target.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Gower: Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the development of John Gower&#039;s critical reputation, his life records, his literary career (including attention to manuscripts, sequence of composition, and revisions), the major social and political themes of his works, and his relationship with Chaucer as a friend and a literary influence. Discussion of Chaucer recurs throughout the volume, and the last section (pp. 204-302) focuses on Gower&#039;s influence on Chaucer, particularly the latter&#039;s development as a social critic in imitation of the older poet, even though he replaced Gower&#039;s complaints against the estates with more fully realized estates satire. This latter section aligns each of Chaucer&#039;s major works with those by Gower, exploring their crossing influences and exchanges.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts Troilus&#039;s ascent through the spheres at the end of TC and the narrator&#039;s comments on it with the analogous materials in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; and &quot;Teseida&quot; (with nods to Dante and Christian liturgy), explaining Troilus&#039;s placement among the fixed stars and exploring the combination of his joy and sorrow in his new-found perspective. Throughout the poem, Chaucer expresses &quot;the divine blessedness of human love.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of Astrology for Poetic Imagery.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes medieval understanding of astrology and examines the &quot;technical side of astrological passages in Chaucer&quot; as well as their &quot;meanings . . . in their poetic contexts. Includes discussion of FranT, Mars, GP, MilT, WBP, MerT, MLT, and ParsP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Eagle&#039;s Speech in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the diction, style, and substance of the Eagle&#039;s disquisition on sound in HF (606-863) illustrate the &quot;techniques of Ciceronian persuasive rhetoric on a relevant science, the physics of sound,&quot; part of the poem&#039;s unifying concern with the medieval pedagogical trivium and their relations to poetry and poetic composition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; as an Impetus for Pilgrimage.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the KnT is &quot;especially suitable for the beginning of the pilgrimage&quot; in CT because it &quot;presents the continual subversion of noble efforts to bring order out of disorder&quot; and because, in comparison with its sources,&quot; it poses a &quot;pagan outlook&quot; rather than Christian consolation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Relationship of the &quot;Monk&#039;s Tale&quot; and the &quot;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Regards MkT and NPT as &quot;Chaucer&#039;s highest literary achievement in the construction of pairs of tales,&quot; arguing that the faults of the MkT are &quot;redeemed&quot; by juxtaposition with the &quot;brilliant&quot; NPT insofar as the pair pose several &quot;arresting contrasts&quot;: a dull sermon versus a vital one, a compendium of tragedies versus a comedy, and &quot;the old and new concepts of Fortune.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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