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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing Remembering Orality: Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s Sir Thopas]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Børch discusses Th as an &quot;oral romance,&quot; surveying its oral characteristics and exploring how these characteristics - when they are written - help to parody the &quot;chivalric ethos&quot; that underlies the genre of romance. Th also exposes for consideration the differences between written and oral modes of narration, which, in turn, reflect Chaucer&#039;s concern with the relations among his Continental and English models.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Host Desecration, Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale,&#039; and Prague 1389]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Accusations of eucharistic host desecration in Prague in 1389 may be read as a backdrop for PrT. Stanbury summarizes the events of mob violence that led to a massacre of Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Shadow of Chaucer&#039;s Jews]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[PrT and SNT mirror each other but &quot;with a telling difference.&quot; The two stand in relation to each other as Old Testament figura to New Testament fulfillment (the shadow and substance of the title). Ironically, in this figural scheme, PrT takes the place of the rejected term, the Jew.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Life in The Prioress&#039;s Tale: A Child Martyrdom and Its Expression Through Senses]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines as ritual murder the death of the clergeon in PrT. In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Opfer &#039;Christlicher&#039; Gewalt: Juden im Texten des Englischen Mittelalters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bauer assesses formulaic or stereotypic depictions of Jews in &quot;Cursor Mundi,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s PrT, Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; (7.3207-3360), &quot;Elene,&quot; &quot;The Siege of Jerusalem,&quot; passion treatises, and The Croxton Play of the Sacrament.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of the &quot;reiteration, instability and changing valence of the Jewish image as inscribed in medieval English books,&quot; focusing on four generic narratives: the Jew of Tewkesbury, the Marian miracle of the boy singer, the cult of Robert of Bury St. Edmunds, and the &quot;literary and decorative scheme&quot; of the Arma Christi. Bale explores philosemitism as well as antisemitism to see how attitudes toward Jews constitute one of the defining myths or legends of the Middle Ages. Discusses PrT in light of analogous narratives, including fifteenth-century &quot;reactions&quot; to the Tale found in manuscript anthologies, which convey pious sentiment and diminish Chaucer&#039;s satire of the Prioress.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269303">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Great Household in the City: The Shipman&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As reflected in ShT, medieval urban space allows the powerful to exert political influence by converting capital into noncommercial culture.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Domestic Opportunities: The Social Comedy of the Shipman&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Read in the light of late medieval letter collections and conduct manuals for women, the comedy of ShT springs from a recognition of the merchant&#039;s wife&#039;s &quot;clever manipulation of her roles: as hostess, social networker, housekeeper, business assistant, and status symbol.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s &#039;lewed peple&#039;: Apes, Japes, and the Pre-history of Mass Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Trigg addresses relationships among the reading audience, the pilgrim audience, and the &quot;lewed peple&quot; of PardPT. Set against the GP description of the Parson and his flock, the Pardoner&#039;s description of his preaching to the people may indicate their resistance to him. This dynamic is a &quot;proleptic glimpse&quot; into some of the issues confronting modern cultural studies.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s Promises: Preaching and Policing Indulgences in the Fourteenth-Century English Church]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Late medieval literary and historical attitudes toward pardoners suggest that the depictions in &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; and PardPT are exaggerated. Shaffern documents ecclesiastical efforts to control abuse of the office.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Physician&#039;s Tale and Remembered Texts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that written texts are not the only valid sources of PhyT and acknowledges the need to consider &quot;remembered texts, semantic fields, and pictorial images&quot; - &quot;intertexts&quot; theorized by Michael Riffaterre.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039; Seen in the Context of the Tales About Calumniated Women]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wicher tallies a number of folktale motifs in FranT and argues that they are rationalized or obscured in ways that qualify the exemplary value of the Tale. Central is the motif of the &quot;rash promise given to a supernatural suitor,&quot; with Arveragus, Aurelius, and the clerk functioning as &quot;avatars&quot; of the husband figure (and paralleling the three females in WBT). Wicher comments on other folktale elements in WBT, ClT, and MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Between Precedent and Possibility: Liminality, Historicity, and Narrative in Chaucer&#039;s The Franklin&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nowlin contends that FranT &quot;offers an interpretation of the forces that shape the ability to imagine beyond exempla.&quot; Draws on Victor Turner&#039;s notions of liminality to discuss the concern with genre as frame in FranT, which shows how frames of reference give way to new ideas and possibilities.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Re-Sounding Echo]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Aurelius&#039;s comparison of himself to the nymph Echo early in FranT enables glimpses of Narcissus in Dorigen and emphasizes the importance of speech and interpretation in the Tale: in particular, Aurelius&#039;s Echo-like interpretations of Dorigen&#039;s speeches. Like Echo, Aurelius produces distorted versions of what he hears.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Nat that I chalange any thyng of right&#039;: Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In FranT, Chaucer presents a &quot;moral dilemma that might be described as scholastic in its contrived intractability.&quot; The &quot;quaestio disputanda&quot; posed at the end of FranT compels readers to confront the Tale&#039;s irresolvable legal complexities of contract. Cartlidge shows parallels with other medieval texts that have legal implications.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Gift (If There Is Any)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores gift-giving in Part 5 of CT, from the magical gifts given to Ghengis Khan in SqT to the concern with generosity that ends FranT. Uses Derridean notions of gifts and exchange to argue that the sequence is Chaucer&#039;s means to &quot;erase unproductive expenditure . . . by safely framing and containing it by economy and exchange.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Your Malady Is No &#039;Sodeyn Hap&#039;: Ophthalmology, Benvenutus Grassus, and January&#039;s Blindness]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considered in the light of writings by thirteenth-century ophthalmologist Benvenutus Grassus, January&#039;s blindness in MerT is no sudden infirmity. With his admitted habit of &quot;overindulgence&quot; in women, food, and drink, January has been working on becoming blind for quite some time.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boccaccios Griselda und Hiob]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A detailed comparison of the Job story and Boccaccio&#039;s Decameron 10.10. Boccaccio&#039;s novella is seen as a variation of the biblical Job story that lacks the justification of God&#039;s divine attributes. Schöpflin argues that Boccaccio and subsequent authors such as Petrarch and Chaucer modeled their versions of the Griselda story on this interpretation of Job.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Necessity of History: The Example of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Patterson reads ClT in light of negotiations over the marriage of Richard II and Isabelle of France in 1396 and of the texts surrounding those negotiations, especially those concerned with the ideology of sacral kingship. Chaucer knew of the marriage negotiations through John Pritwell, the royal sergeant-at-arms who obtained safe conduct for diplomats and who worked with Chaucer when Chaucer was Clerk of the King&#039;s Works. Chaucer may have used &quot;L&#039;estoire de Griseldis&quot; as well as Petrarch and the French translation as a reaction to the muting of political and literary issues.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk&#039;s Tale: Sources, Influences, and Allusions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Goodwin explores the practical problems of source study - terminology and the constraints of publication - in relation to ClT. Comments on Boccaccio&#039;s and Philippe de Mézières&#039; Griselda stories as &quot;sources of invention&quot; for Chaucer&#039;s version.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Buried Bodies&#039; of Dante, Boccaccio, and, Petrarch: Chaucerian &#039;Sources&#039; for the Critical Fiction of Obedient Wives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Frese reads water, dressing, and &quot;suckling&quot; imagery in Boccaccio, Petrarch, and ClT as vestiges of Dante&#039;s concern in &quot;De vulgari eloquentia&quot; with using &quot;vernacular&quot; language for &quot;literature of lasting value.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269288">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Povre Griselda and the All-Consuming Archewyves]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Denny-Brown assesses the vacillations between sartorial richesse and rudenesse in ClT, examining the gender and class implications of Griselda&#039;s dressing, undressing, and redressing and counterpointing Walter&#039;s attitudes toward clothing and material consumption with those of his people. The Clerk&#039;s own frugality disguises a &quot;fascination&quot; with &quot;worldly, material aesthetics,&quot; and his Envoy engages his theme of dispence as well as it does the Wife of Bath. The essay also considers the reception of ClT in Lydgate&#039;s &quot;A dyte of womenhis hornys&quot; (&quot;Horns Away&quot;).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading like a Clerk in the Clerk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[If reading is a transformative act, then Griselda&#039;s unwavering &quot;reading&quot; of Walter as a loving husband ultimately transforms him so that Walter&#039;s will conforms with hers. Thus, her association with the Clerk (especially as aligned against the Pardoner, who rejects the moral implications of his own tale) is apt. ClT demonstrates the moral power and importance of acts of interpretation, which can both find and plant good, even where no good was intended.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Privy Speech: Sacred Silence, Dirty Secrets in the Summoner&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Allusions in SumT to the &quot;silent canon&quot; - the clerical practice of offering the Eucharistic consecration prayers silently - open a window on &quot;lay-clerical relations,&quot; exposing the politics governing access to the secrets of the Eucharist. Through its critique of the silent canon, SumT &quot;endorses lay private devotional speech,&quot; while questioning the capacity for any human discourse to &quot;communicate with the divine or aptly articulate sacred mysteries.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Devil Take the Hindmost: Chaucer, John Gay, and the Pecuniary Anus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studying SumT with John Gay&#039;s 1717 poem &quot;An Answer to the Sompner&#039;s Prologue of Chaucer&quot; reveals a continuum of greed in SumT, moving from goods of use value, to coins of exchange value, to excrement and insubstantial air, even as Chaucer satirizes social acceptance of such abstracted value in place of real goods.]]></dcterms:description>
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