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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Julius defines anti-Semitism and describes its history and politics in England. Literary anti-Semitism has &quot;distinct tropes and themes, deployed without respect for genre boundaries.&quot; The &quot;master trope&quot; of &quot;a well intentioned Christian place in peril by a sinister Jew or Jews&quot; underlies PrT as well as Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Merchant of Venice,&quot; Dickens&#039;s &quot;Oliver Twist,&quot; and many other works. Despite Chaucer&#039;s &quot;humane and skeptical sentiments,&quot; PrT canonized the blood-libel legend and stands at the head of an authoritative tradition of its acceptance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;A Revelation of Purgatory&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s Prioress]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the Prioress in light of &quot;A Revelation of Purgatory by an Unknown, Fifteenth-Century Woman Visionary&quot; (1422), arguing that the later work provides evidence that Chaucer&#039;s character would have been found &quot;culpable&quot; for her worldliness.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nuns]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wallace explores &quot;degrees of enclosure&quot; for nuns and surveys representations of nuns in medieval and Renaissance literature and art. Comments on Chaucer&#039;s depictions of the Prioress and the Second Nun: Chaucer &quot;tells us much about one of his nuns and nothing about the other,&quot; an imbalance typical of the medieval representation of nuns.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wrestling for the Ram: Competition and Feedback in &#039;Sir Thopas&#039; and &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers patronage and the developing status of the poet in the role of &quot;court maker&quot; in late medieval England, aligning the change with the influence of Italian culture. In his response to Th, the Host represents a courtly &quot;negative feedback loop,&quot; probably reflects Chaucer&#039;s personal experiences as a young poet, and suggests Chaucer&#039;s awareness that his poetry is innovative and subject to audience response.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Proverbs and the Wisdom of Literature: &#039;The Proverbs of Alfred&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Tale of Melibee&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores medieval definitions and aesthetic responses to proverbs by examining &quot;The Proverbs of Alfred&quot; and Mel, exploring how each depends upon &quot;acts of recognition that are produced by the repetition of well-worn truths.&quot; Both works are examples of &quot;wisdom literature,&quot; which depends on an aesthetic sense alien to modern valorization of originality--one that satisfies by teaching us what we already know.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270853">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Multiple Ways of Thinking: With Special Reference to Proverbial Expressions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer&#039;s proverbial wisdom in Mel. In Japanese]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Word Pairs or Doublets in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Tale of Melibee&#039; and Their Variant Readings: A Preliminary Examination]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Evidence from variants in manuscripts of Mel indicates that Chaucer&#039;s contemporaries accepted his use of doublets in &quot;curial style.&quot; The variants reinforce affiliations between Hg and El and between Corpus Christi College 198 and Lansdowne 851, Cambridge; Caxton&#039;s reduction of doublets in his first edition may reflect his printing methods.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Tale of Melibee and the Failure of Allegory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Mel as an allegory of translation, proposing that Chaucer applies legal theory drawn from Henry de Bracton&#039;s &quot;De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae&quot; to questions of ownership. In MelP, Chaucer uses &quot;thyng&quot; as a legal term pertaining to an author&#039;s use or ownership of an allegory.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Knowing Fortune: The Limits of Boethian Knowledge in The Monk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[MkT reflects Boethian epistemology and demonstrates the limits of human reason. The Monk presents Fortune as in Books 1 and 2 of the &quot;Consolation,&quot; but he lacks the faith necessary to understand the divine, while the mocking Knight and Host misunderstand the Tale&#039;s Boethian nature. Grimes contrasts the Monk with Troilus, who finds clear vision only in death.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270849">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Getting Out of Henry of Derby&#039;s Clutches: Richard II and the &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads NPT as a political commentary, with Chauntecleer and Pertelote as Richard and Anne and the fox as Henry Derby (later Henry IV), one of the appellants. Lindeboom comments on May 3, the dreams as Richard&#039;s anxieties, dating and astrological allusion in the poem, and the Tale&#039;s relationship to &quot;Le Roman de Renart.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Apollo&#039;s Chariot and the Christian Subtext of The Franklin&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lee assesses FranT as a &quot;sequel&quot; to SqT that repudiates its magic, replaces its stasis with moral development in the idea of &quot;gentilesse,&quot; and provides a missing Christian subtext--a &quot;Christmas miniature&quot; that precedes the apparent disappearance of the rocks. The tales of Fragment 5 are also fused by references to Apollo, which Lee explains in light of Chaucer&#039;s Mars, his ABC, and the apocryphal &quot;Flower and the Leaf.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Subtle Crafts: Magic and Exploitation in Medieval English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The use of magic was exploitative and morally ambiguous; however, with the thirteenth-century rise of universities, attitudes shifted: through natural magic and great learning, one could harness natural powers. The &quot;highly intellectual&quot; FranT explores the power of natural (rather than demonic) magic to affect perception and exert a dangerous physical and mental control over others.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;My body to warente . . . &#039;: Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers PardPT in light of Augustinian semiotic theory. Focus on the body in the Pardoner&#039;s materials signals the need to attend to the objects of signs, and the quarrel with the Host &quot;renders impotent&quot; the Pardoner&#039;s nominalist &quot;attack on signification.&quot; PardPT reconfigures the Sophist question of whether a false person can tell a good tale, placing responsibility on readers to attend to all available signs.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Camargo details how the Pardoner &quot;pointedly rejects every tenet&quot; of moral instruction found in chapter 1 of Waleys&#039;s &quot;De modo componendi sermones&quot; and shows how the treatise discloses flaws in the Pardoner&#039;s rhetorical techniques. The Pardoner &quot;may have been&quot; self-deluded about his verbal prowess. The collection appends Camargo&#039;s translation of chapter 1 of Waleys&#039;s treatise.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Commentary on an Unacknowledged Text: Chaucer&#039;s Debt to Langland]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Middleton reads the Pardoner materials as Chaucer&#039;s &quot;formal and ideational&quot; tribute to Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman&quot;--an embodiment of his appreciation of Langland&#039;s struggles with poetic self-representation, the gendered status of the poet, and the poetics of confession. Langland inspired the Pardoner and the penitential ending of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270843">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The True Cross: Chaucer, Calvin, and the Relic Mongers]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on brief selections from a translation of PardT as evidence that Chaucer accepts the validity of the True Cross even though he rejects the Pardoner&#039;s &quot;fraudulent&quot; practice. Discusses how John Calvin &quot;took the matter several steps further&quot; and asserts that there is no &quot;credible evidence&quot; that Saint Helena ever found the Cross.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Place]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares what PardT and Erasmus&#039;s &quot;Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion&quot; reveal about the &quot;locatability&quot; and placelessness of the Church, exclusion from Church locations, and disgust associated with such exclusion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Religious Practice in Chaucer&#039;s Prioress&#039;s Tale: Rabbit and/or Duck?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Both PrP and PrT express &quot;affective devotional piety,&quot; while simultaneously they are &quot;swollen with reference to targets of Wycliffite polemic.&quot; As a result, their Marian generic affiliations and the &quot;collocational patterns&quot; of their diction can and do provoke distinctly orthodox and heterodox responses that are equally valid and probably sequentially evident to Chaucer&#039;s audience. Barr includes significant attention to liturgical concerns, the phrase &quot;by rote&quot; (in contrast to &quot;in herte&quot;), and the interpretive process of &quot;inferencing.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jewish Connection: Chaucer and the Paris Jews, 1394]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Delany explores the &quot;imbrication&quot; of life and art in PrT and the expulsion of Jews from France in 1394. She gauges Chaucer&#039;s contact with Jews and describes the conditions under which Jews lived in fourteenth-century France, specifically the results of the supposed abduction of Denis Machaut, a Jewish convert to Christianity. Delany identifies elements that PrT shares with history rather than what it shares with literary analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;To wondre upon this thyng&#039;: Chaucer&#039;s Prioress&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[PrT depicts &quot;the production and exigencies of wonder&quot; in concert with the ambiguity and inscrutability of the miraculous. The abbot reestablishes the distinction between the animate and the inanimate by removing the mysterious &quot;greyn,&quot; which does not &quot;produce song&quot; but instead &quot;prolongs wonder.&quot; Medieval religious wonder, in turn, may provoke both passivity before what cannot be assimilated and &quot;an active desire to assimilate and appropriate it.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Muslim Griselda: The Politics of Gender and Religion in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039; and Pramoedya Ananta Toer&#039;s &#039;The Girl from the Coast&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Raybin compares the work by the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer with ClT. Both works involve a powerful man who marries a poor girl and who eventually dismisses her. Pramoedya pays careful attention to the heroine&#039;s thoughts and feelings, while Chaucer largely obscures Griselda&#039;s feelings. Both works show how literature depicts the emotional life of &quot;the oppressed female poor.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[May in January&#039;s Tree: Genealogical Configuration in the Merchant&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the concern with propagating robust and pure lineages in numerous areas of medieval culture--including Chaucer&#039;s ClT, KnT, and MerT in particular. The denouement of the latter may be read as May&#039;s inserting herself into January&#039;s family tree, even as she foils his desire for &quot;leveful&quot; offspring by arranging &quot;the prospect of offspring from a more attractive source.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[De la généalogie sexualle à la généalogie textuelle: L&#039;obscénité du &#039;Lidia&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the nature and constitutive motifs of obscenity in the twelfth-century &quot;Lidia,&quot; Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; 7.9, MerT, and the fifteenth-century &quot;Cent nouvelles nouvelles.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270835">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the development of mercantile practice in the late Middle Ages and depictions of merchants in English literature, from early satires to greater acceptability. Includes sections on merchants in Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; Gower&#039;s &quot;Mirour de l&#039;Omme,&quot; the &quot;Book of Margery Kempe,&quot; the &quot;Libelle of Englyshe Polycye,&quot; the &quot;Tale of Beryn,&quot; the York cycle, and Chaucer&#039;s CT. Chapter 4, &quot;The Deliberate Ambiguity of Chaucer&#039;s Anxious Merchants&quot; (pp. 77-100), assesses Chaucer&#039;s concern with the &quot;efficacy of satire&quot; as he offers both pro- and antimercantile treatments in the GP description of the &quot;elusive&quot; Merchant, the &quot;unmercantile&quot; MerT, and ShT, where mercantilism is displaced to France. Through this variety, Ladd traces what &quot;Chaucer requires from his readers.&quot;.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;O Sweete Venym Queynte!&#039;: Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores a &quot;gendered model of disability&quot; in MerT, where the carnivalesque grotesqueness of May&#039;s performed pregnancy replaces January&#039;s blindness and impotence as a kind of disability.]]></dcterms:description>
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