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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emphasizes &quot;relic discourse&quot; in England from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. Chapter 4, &quot;Relic Discourse in the &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Prologue and Tale&#039; and &#039;Troilus and Creiseyde,&#039; discusses how the Pardoner&#039;s performance &quot;reveals the workings of relic discourse,&quot; and how parody is revealed in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Road Not Taken&#039;: Virtual Narratives in The Franklin&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;virtual&quot; narratives in FranT. Compares FranT to earlier lais of Marie de France and &quot;Sir Orfeo.&quot; Suggests that Chaucer&#039;s &quot;unrealized possibilities&quot; mark a moment in the history of genre development when medieval lais begin to resemble modern psychological narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance, Distraint, and the Gentry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that many late Middle English romances appeal to the gentry by coded references to the practice of &quot;distraint,&quot; whereby gentry landowners were forced to take up knighthood or to pay fines. Concludes by comparing the attitudes expressed in these romances to those of Chaucer&#039;s Franklin, who desires a less elite status among landowning society.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading the Middle English Breton Lays and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the genre of &quot;lay&quot; as a subset of romance, and places individual lays in their historical and literary contexts, reexamining the meaning of &quot;Breton&quot; in relation to medieval Celtic literature more generally. Compares Chaucer&#039;s lays to earlier ones in Middle English, and observes connections with modern folk and fairy tales.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fantasies of the Other&#039;s Body in Middle English Oriental Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the body of the &quot;Other&quot; in various medieval romances. Chapter 1, &quot;Ethnic Difference and Body Marvelous: the Case of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039; and Sir Ferumbras,&quot; focuses on how SqT highlights Canace&#039;s ethnicity as a space for fantasy. Canace represents an exotic other, symbolizing a &quot;new world&quot; in the East that is attractive to the West. SqT ties together the wonder inimical to the genre of romance with the fear of the Eastern Other, revealing the competing ideologies at work in the text.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Shakespeare: &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039; Connection]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines scholarship that traces Chaucer&#039;s &quot;subtle&quot; influence on Shakespeare, by drawing connections between MerT and &quot;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Forms of Living: Asceticism, Culture, and Articulating the &#039;Medeled Liyf&#039; in Late Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Using ClT and other texts, looks at the intersection of asceticism and secular lifestyles.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Redressing Griselda: Restoration through Translation in the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s modification of Petrarch&#039;s Griselda material return ClT closer to Boccaccio&#039;s original version of the story. By working with multiple versions of the story, Chaucer places himself in the pantheon of Italian writers.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272481">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039; and the Forces of Habit]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Aristotelian and Augustinian concepts of moral virtue illuminate Walter&#039;s and Griselda&#039;s behaviors in terms of habit and its relation to place.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272480">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039; and Boccaccio&#039;s &#039;Decameron&#039; X.10]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s translations of key phrases in the Griselda story reveal his use of the Boccaccio source material as a way to underscore the &quot;complexity&quot; of the story and the varied authorial voices involved in translation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Editors and Scribes in Two Clerk&#039;s Tale Cruxes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Variant treatments of ClT 4.507-8 reflect editorial practices as well as scribal power, specifically Adam Pinkhurst&#039;s, in shaping Chaucer&#039;s texts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;He is ane Haly Freir&#039;: &#039;The Freiris of Berwik,&#039; &#039;The Summoner&#039;s Tale,&#039; and the Tradition of Anti-Fraternal Satire]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the fifteenth-century Scottish fabliau, &quot;The Freiris of Berwik,&quot; to SumT and finds that the treatment of friars in the Scottish tale is more ironic than satirical, and is more concerned with eliciting laughter than with advancing an anti-fraternal agenda.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer the Forester: The Friar&#039;s Tale, Forest History, and Officialdom]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In light of the abuses of power in the medieval forest industry, the forest as backdrop to romance tales, and the hunt as an aristocratic privilege, FrT critiques administrative bureaucracy through a re-working of the &quot;devil-and-advocate&quot; fable.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fictional Religion: Keeping the New Testament New]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses how authors, from Chaucer to C. S. Lewis, are influenced by the &quot;flexible tradition&quot; of religious stories. Chapter 1 analyzes how Chaucer reveals understanding of Christian doctrine in WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Idle and Extravagant Stories in Verse: 400 Years of Narrative Poetry from Sir Gawain to Wordsworth]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies what kind of poems William Wordsworth criticized as &quot;idle and extravagant stories in verse&quot; and examines four English narrative poems before Wordsworth, including WBT. All four turn out to be more or less &quot;idle and extravagant&quot; by Wordsworth&#039;s standards.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alisoun Takes Exception: Medieval Legal Pleading and the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the Wife of Bath &quot;employs the courtroom pleading techniques of &#039;excepcion&#039; and &#039;confession&#039; and &#039;avoidance&#039; to challenge the misogynist teachings of clerical authority.&quot; Demonstrates how Alisoun&#039;s discourse in WBP reveals her familiarity with legal argument, and her understanding and use of &quot;masculine language&quot; enhances her authority within WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alison, una Figura Femenina Controvertia Prólogo de las Esposa de Bath en Los Cuentos de Canterbury, de Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spanish version of Arboleda Guirao&#039;s essay &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&#039; in &#039;The Canterbury Tales.&#039; The Wife&#039;s Personality, Language and Life: Revisiting Feminism,&quot; published in 2011.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Gode in all thynge&#039;: The Erle of Tolous, Susanna and the Elders, and Other Narratives of Righteous Women on Trial]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the righteous-woman-on-trial-motif in &quot;The Earl of Tolous&quot; and its relation to Susanna (Daniel 13) and to medieval romances involving the same motif. By exploiting narrative structure, shifting perspectives and the differing perceptions of characters and audience, &quot;Earl&quot; draws a more complex character of the heroine than its analogues and replaces their conception of virtue with a more pragmatic ethics.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Premodern Media and Networks of Transmission in the &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that MLT represents cultural and textual transmission through a network of premodern media: voices, texts, bodies, culture, human actions, and nonhuman forces---media which represent an alternative to the hegemonic, institutional, and linear &quot;translatio studii et imperii.&quot; The Christian culture Constance transmits flickers from noise to signal, indicating medieval cultural mobility, and suggesting that &quot;mediation&quot; is a condition of life. Also suggests that transmission is a paradigm for the structure and poetic project of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Among Other Possible Things: The Cosmopolitanisms of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares cosmopolitanism in Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer&#039;s Constance legends.  Establishes that Chaucer&#039;s sultan in MLT represents more of an aesthetic cosmopolitan than do his analogues in Trevet and Gower, who portray cosmopolitanism as a means of &quot;advanc[ing] the universal expansion of orthodox Christian belief.&quot; Suggests that Chaucer questioned the success of a cosmopolitan world.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Fer in the north, I kan nat telle where&#039;: Gentility and Provincialism in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the name &quot;Strother&quot; in RvT is not a place name but a surname, and suggests a connection between the tale&#039;s fictional clerks, John and Aleyn, and two junior members of the prominent Strother family of Northumberland.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;potential value and pitfalls of reading the literature and drama of this period &#039;historically.&#039;&quot; Chapter 6 addresses Chaucer and argues that Absolon &quot;defies categorization,&quot; but seems to have origins in popular religion and medieval drama. Argues that, from a Freudian perspective, Absolon is obsessed with oral pleasure and compares MilT to KnT, comparing Absolon to Palamon and Arcite. Also compares Absolon to Gawain in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; and Th. Ultimately, reads MilT as critiquing medieval drama and its Mariolatry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Walking Dead in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses how &quot;manipulations of time&quot; affect the narrative structure of KnT, and &quot;recreate instabilities inherent to fourteenth-century chivalric ideas.&quot; Views Theseus, Palamon, and Arcite as the &quot;walking dead,&quot; since they only &quot;exist in literature and imagination.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness: Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the episode of &quot;wood-stripping&quot; that occurs in Statius&#039; :Thebaid&quot; (6.84-117), Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Teseida&quot; (11), and KnT (4.2919-62).  While Statius&#039; account is the major model for the others, all versions imply social-political criticism, express nostalgia for a localized landscape, and evoke an emotional response to natural phenomena.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Worthy but Wise? Virtuous and Non-Virtuous Forms of Courage in the Later Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys classical and medieval notions of courage (&quot;fortitude&quot;) with particular attention to Giles of Rome and chroniclers of the Battle of Agincourt, and recurrent comments on Chaucer&#039;s Knight, Squire, and Troilus. Describes the criteria and nuances of Giles&#039;s seven types of &quot;fortitude,&quot; noting parallels in Christian and pagan antecedents and in late-medieval chronicles and romances.]]></dcterms:description>
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