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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer sets up Criseyde&#039;s behavior, from first love to betrayal, as a reflection on woman&#039;s perilous social state. In so doing he questions the judgment passed on her by a male-centered society and religion, even though it is represented in his own palinode.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Also published as &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Criseyde: Woman in Society, Woman in Love,&quot; in Thomas C. Stillinger, ed., Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998), pp. 195-218.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265129">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s &#039;Impossible&#039; &#039;Aubes&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s &quot;aubes&quot; of TC, III and IV, wherein she swears her constancy to Troilus, ironically recall the &quot;impossibilia&quot; of anti-feminist lying-songs, which warned men not to put trust in women.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262787">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s &#039;Routhe&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Widespread acceptance of C. S. Lewis&#039;s belief that Criseyde&#039;s ruling passion is fear has resulted in a limited version of her motivation, for an equally powerful force, &quot;routhe,&quot; works sometimes with and sometimes against her fear.  The two forces operate throughout the action, leading to the union of Troilus and Criseyde and to their separation.  Under the pressure of the circumstances of Bk. 5, Criseyde&#039;s compassion for Troilus gives way to her fear for her own safety.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265131">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s &#039;Thought&#039; in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039; (II, 598-812)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Criseyde&#039;s debate on whether to take Troilus as a lover (2.598-812), the word &quot;thought&quot; occurs fourteen times, the most dense usage in the poem, reflective of Criseyde&#039;s practice of thinking before acting.  In contrast, &quot;thought&quot; in Troilus&#039; case is used more about his feelings in love.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268725">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s &#039;widewes habit large of samyt broun&#039; in Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Hodges analyzes Criseyde&#039;s costume rhetoric, comparing details of her dress (and how it changes throughout the work) with mourning customs of late fourteenth-century England.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Absent Friends]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s evocation of contrasting senses of &quot;frend&quot; sharpens his depiction of Criseyde&#039;s precarious state in Troy. Lacking advisors, and thus dangerously dependent on Pandarus and Troilus, she also belongs to a network of relationships devoted solely to &quot;an ideal of sociability&quot; and therefore possesses a dangerous independence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261450">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Assured Manner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC 1.78-82 is based on Machaut&#039;s Le jugement du roy de Behaigne and his Remede de fortune.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268728">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Beauty: Chaucer and Aesthetics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Knapp examines how Chaucer makes Criseyde beautiful to his audience (then and now) and how critical readings of her character rely on cultural constructs of aesthetic beauty.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274986">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Blasphemous Aube.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that anachronistic details of Criseyde&#039;s address to night in TC 3.1429-42 deviate from traditional albas and indicate that she &quot;challenges God&quot; in favor of her own will, indicated by her unorthodox attitude toward Providence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263595">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Book of the Romance of Thebes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A shortened version of a paper in Medievalia et Humanistica 12 (1984): 167-85.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272623">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Brows Once Again]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Chaucer&#039;s interest in the physiognomic implications of Criseyde&#039;s joined eyebrows in relation to his sources.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270209">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Chances: Courtly Love and Ethics About to Come]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads courtly love in TC through a Levinasian lens: courtly desire is ethical because it is never satisfied. Yet, Criseyde&#039;s case disallows a direct application of Levinasian ethical theory. Mitchell comments on the role of fortune in TC, the exchange of Criseyde, and the possibility of her becoming a moral subject. Also comments on gender differences in relation to the question of ethics and erotic love in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272633">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Character in the Major Writers from Benoît through Dryden: The Changes and Their Significance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes chapters on Benoît, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, and Dryden, treating Chaucer&#039;s Criseyde as &quot;the most delightful of them all&quot;--a character of &quot;infinite complexity and infinite charm.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263275">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Choices]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes TC 2.449-62, 3.568-81, and 5.1016-29 to show syntactically &quot;the process by which Criseyde exercises her will, makes a choice, without acknowledging (it)...while preserving her image...as a passive instrument of forces greater than herself&quot; (&quot;a profound investment in inexactitude and the obscuring of causes&quot;), and convinces herself that she has no choice but to do what she wants to do.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pearsall examines the contemporary debate on free will and predestination and concludes, &quot;Criseyde has only the illusion of this freedom.&quot;  Criseyde is also compared with Griselda and Constance.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271953">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Descriptions and the Ethics of Feminine Experience]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests Chaucer&#039;s portrayal of Criseyde challenges the &quot;traditional &#039;descriptio&#039; as a restrictive benchmark of feminine beauty.&quot; Describes Criseyde&#039;s transformations in TC as an &quot;experiential journey through love and war.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262006">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Dream of the Eagle: Love and War in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Foreshadowing submission to Troilus and Diomede, Criseyde&#039;s erotic dream of the eagle symbolizes her fear of man&#039;s aggressive nature and her belief in love&#039;s ennobling influence.  Throughout the poem love modifies the worst in Troilus, the warrior, inspiring moral virtues.  Tragically love cannot resist war&#039;s greater aggression.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264270">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Heart and the Weakness of Women: An Essay in Lexical Interpretation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the phrase &quot;slydynge of corage&quot; used to characterize Criseyde&#039;s moral character refers to &quot;infirmity of resolve&quot; but also involves unstable affections.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265504">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Honor: Interiority and Public Identity in Chaucer&#039;s Courtly Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s status as a widow and her self-conscious concern with her &quot;honour&quot; and &quot;estat&quot; help characterize her as someone &quot;concerned with maintaining herself and her household as independent units.&quot;  Her inconstancy is a rational response to her social and political context.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262014">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Indirections]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Criseyde protects herself from self-knowledge by distancing indirections--dream, pun, reference to the dead husband, etc.--which still tell the truth.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272933">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Infidelity and the Moral of the &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes Criseyde in TC as a good, even perfect, courtly heroine until she is unfaithful to Troilus, a result of the very human &quot;weakness in the face of death.&quot; More than does Boccaccio in &quot;Filostrato,&quot; Chaucer creates a sense of inevitability about events in his poem, including Criseyde&#039;s infidelity, and reinforces it with dramatic irony. As a result, when Criseyde chooses dishonor before death or loneliness, her infidelity conveys the transience of all worldly love and happiness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261780">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Inner Debate: The Dialectic of Enamorment in the &#039;Filostrato&#039; and the &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the rhetoric of the passages in &quot;Filostrato&quot; and TC in which Criseyde first sees Troilus outside her window.  Chaucer combines his own &quot;fictional vision&quot; with rhetorical and narrative conventions drawn from Ovid and romance to create the illusion of &quot;complex consciousness,&quot; an essential aspect of psychological characterization.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271817">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Last Word]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Criseyde&#039;s &quot;slipperiness and unreliability&quot; in TC, focusing on her last letter to Troilus, which is &quot;Chaucer&#039;s own addition,&quot; as a way of understanding her character.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262790">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Oaths of Love: Do They Really Belong to the Tradition of Lying-Songs?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Susan Schibanoff (JEGP, 1977) is in error when she argues that the &quot;impossibilia&quot; testifying to Criseyde&#039;s love (TC 3.1492-98) suggests the medieval genre of the antifeminist lying-song.  Rather, such &quot;impossibilia&quot; belong in a courtly context, and the audience would have understood them as sincere.  Their recurrence in Bk. 5 shows &quot;how much unfailing love has failed.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268720">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Poem: The Anxieties of the Classical Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Against the backdrop of two of his own studies exploring the classical roots of TC, Fleming argues that Chaucer subverts gender stereotypes and the force of literary tradition as much as he can by giving Criseyde a measure of agency and by depicting Deiphoebus as betrayed not by Helen but by Pandarus.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268396">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Prudence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In her &quot;active suffering,&quot; Criseyde reflects a Boethian notion of agency. In her prudential counseling of Troilus, she properly dissuades him from &quot;treasonable elopement in time of war.&quot; The article explores how Criseyde&#039;s advice to Troilus and her later commentary on Prudence (TC 5.744-49) reflect her fundamental &quot;trouthe.&quot; McAlpine contrasts Criseyde&#039;s perspectives with those of Troilus, Calkas, and Cassandra to disclose Chaucer&#039;s anxieties about how knowledge of the future can distort ethical judgment.]]></dcterms:description>
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