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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constance and the Silkweavers: Working Women and the Colonial Fantasy in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;The Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cast as a discussion among four participants (Reductio, Thea, Ceres, and Cassandra), this closet drama explores relations among power, gender, trade, religion, and their representation in MLT.  The characters are, loosely, representatives of different but nonconflicting critical schools, discussing how (and whether) patriarchy speaks through the poem, its kinds of commodification and repression, parallels between matters related to women and Islam, and the applicability of MLT to the modern world.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constance and the Stars]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The story of Constance is not especially appropriate to the Man of Law.  Chaucer was attracted to it because it is a good piece of fiction and because it gave him the perfect opportunity to set forth and justify his belief in astrology.  The story illustrates perfectly how a Christian could believe in astrology and not be a complete determinist.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constance and the World in Chaucer and Gower]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The pattern of sustained allusion to Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; provides an important index to the purpose of MLT. Gower communicates the horror of a moral void; the Man of Law inveighs against Canacee&#039;s sinfulness.  Chaucer&#039;s tale ultimately &quot;serves to expose the emptiness at the heart of the Man of Law&#039;s affirmation of order.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constance as Romance and Folk Heroine in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Constance is that rarity, a romance &quot;heroine,&quot; who, like the more familiar hero, learns through trials and difficulties. The tale is thus perhaps one of those narratives that marks the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy in European culture.  The tale is a romance but it still bears the marks of its Marchen roots, especially in the mechanism of female initiation.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ The events portray a &quot;continual representation of a dying matriarchy unable to generate new queens, which yields to the male principle.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constance&#039;s Covering Her Child&#039;s Eyes in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039; 837f]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Regards the detail of covering the child&#039;s eyes in MLT 2.840-41 as a &quot;homely touch&quot; of pathos, perhaps drawn from child-care advice found in Bartholomaeus Anglicus, &quot;De Proprietatibus Rerum.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constancy and Foreswearing in Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law&#039;s and Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads MLT and CYT as opposed tales. Custance of MLT is a &quot;worthy victim&quot; of the broken promises of others and someone who &quot;steadfastly&quot; keeps her own. CYPT, on the other hand, is &quot;marked by changeability, mutability, and vacillation&quot;; its characters mislead others by false and broken promises.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constancy Humanized: Trivet&#039;s Constance and the Man of Law&#039;s Custance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Man of Law in his Prologue, in his characterization of Custance, and in his concept of Christ&#039;s &quot;prudent purveiaunce&quot; consistently revises his sources, especially Nicholas Trevet, into the materialistic terms of the world governed by Fortune.  This preoccupation with good fortune rather than salvation completes the irony of GP&#039;s portrait.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constantinus Africanus and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the allusion to Constantinus Africanus&#039;s &quot;De Coitu&quot; in MerT 4.1810-11, suggesting that knowledge of the treatise helps us to understand that January&#039;s consumption of aphrodisiacs is &quot;manically compulsive&quot; and sinful.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272912">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constantinus Africanus&#039; &#039;De Coitu&#039;: A Translation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A modern English translation (with brief notes) of Constantinus Africanus&#039;s treatise &quot;De Coitu,&quot; cited with scorn in MerT (4.1810-11).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268910">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constraining S and Satisfying Fit]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Zonneveld examines factors associated with iambic stress in the octosyllabic Dutch poem &quot;Het Leven van St. Lutgart&quot; [Life of St. Lutgart], comparing them with conditions in early English. Considers the &quot;uncertain status of schwa syllables&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s poetry and in Shakespeare&#039;s plays.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing (a Male) Parenthood for Medieval English Literature: Literary Fathers and Absent Mothers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;construction of parenthood&quot; in medieval literature and criticism, focusing on Chaucer&#039;s role as &quot;father&quot; of English literature, which lacks a parallel &quot;mother&quot; figure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265994">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing a Voice for Chaucer&#039;s Second Nun: Martyrdom as Institutional Discourse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Second Nun&#039;s voice is undefined by Chaucer, yet it is intriguing since it probes the nature of &quot;agency, voice, and reappropriation.&quot;  The voice of the Nun becomes more clear as her character develops, and SNT &quot;becomes a product of the voice.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing Chaucer in the Fifteenth Century: The Inherent Anti-feminism of the Paternal Paradigm]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Knutson argues that fifteenth-century imitators of Chaucer identified themselves as descendants of Chaucer, whom they constructed as father, to promote a conservative agenda, simultaneously antifeminist, hierarchical, and heteronormative.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270108">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gust seeks to &quot;reenergize persona theory&quot; for future Chaucer scholarship, arguing that Chaucer&#039;s &quot;autofictional&quot; persona should be regarded as the central topic not only of Chaucer&#039;s works but also of studies of his reception and literary history at large. Comments on the personae throughout Chaucer&#039;s corpus and on his reception history, focusing on biographical criticism from the fifteenth century to the present, several lyrics (Scog, Buk, Adam, Sted, Purse), Ret, WBPT, PardPT, and Th-MelL. Homosocial concerns in these works challenge critics to read Chaucer&#039;s persona in CT as queer, although not necessarily homosexual.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269482">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing Chaucer(s): Author and Persona in the Critical Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;many ways in which the I-speaker has been deployed by both Chaucer and Chaucerians,&quot; considering concepts of the persona, influences from Chaucer&#039;s biographies, and representations of the poet in his short poems and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing Prejudice in the Middle Ages and the Repercussions of Racism Today.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes comments on MLT, arguing that it &quot;demonstrates the belief that not everyone can become a true Christian and that true Christianity can only be acquired by the right kind of pagans, such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings,&quot; but not Muslims.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing the Author]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses how the sixteenth-century editions of Chaucer by Thynne and Speght helped to create and monumentalize a view of the writer.  Renaissance notions of authors, evident in Speght&#039;s Chaucer, Holland&#039;s Livy, and Harrington&#039;s Ariosto, are not the same as those theorized by Foucault and Barthes,but they mark a stage in the development of such a view of authorship.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing the Chaucer Corpus: A Study of Cambridge, University Library MS Gg 4.27]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Gg is the earliest surviving effort to create a corpus of Chaucer&#039;s poetry and that codicological analysis of the manuscript reveals much about the reception of Chaucer in the fifteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Topics include depictions of virginity, widowhood, and their intersections in medieval romance, hagiography, and drama, with recurrent references to other literary genres and historical documents. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seventeen essays by various authors. The book is divided into three sections: Sexual/Textual Consumption; Monstrous Bodies; and Consuming Genders, Races, and Nations. Includes an introduction by the editors, a select bibliography, and an index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer; search for Consuming Narratives under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Consumption and Memory in Chaucer&#039;s Parliament of Fowls]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kerr argues that the sixth canto of Dante&#039;s Inferno was the model for Chaucer&#039;s use of gluttony and alimentary metaphors in PF, particularly the latter&#039;s concern with literary transmission and the birds&#039; debate.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contagion, Sexual Violence, and Communal Healing in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Physician&#039;s Tale&quot; and Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on two texts that feature violence against women to examine how the violated woman functions as a tool for political change. Both Chaucer and Gower foreground the suffering that men experience in response to the violated female body, leading to communal healing and the reformation of social and political structures.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contagious Texts Embodied: Melancholy Hermeneutics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates notions of contagion, melancholy, and reader response in BD, Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; Sidney&#039;s &quot;Old Arcadia,&quot; Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;As You Like It,&quot; and four early modern &quot;self-help&quot; texts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contemplating Finitude: Animals in The Book of the Duchess]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Animals figure prominently in BD but are more than mere symbols. Ceyx&#039;s dead body is also an &quot;unnatural animal.&quot; The birds, horse, whelp, and hart invite, but also resist, interpretation. The juxtaposition of death and animalistic vitality evokes grief, which itself is the simultaneous awareness of being present in life and of death. The animals in the poem help us to &quot;think about finitude.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries: Essays for Stephanie Trigg.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, all inspired by or in response to the critical studies of Stephanie Trigg. The introduction describes the &quot;affective&quot; criticism underlying Trigg&#039;s &quot;Congenial Souls,&quot; &quot;Shame and Honor,&quot; and &quot;Affective Medievalism&quot; (co-authored with Thomas A. Prendergast), and summarizes the essays in this collection. The volume also includes a bibliography and comprehensive index. For the individual essays, search for Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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