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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Conditioning the Soul: Spiritual Athleticism in Medieval English Theology and Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eyler considers the Pauline concept of &quot;spiritual athleticism&quot; (a means of struggling with temptation) in hagiographic literature and in canonical medieval English texts, including CT. Argues that the spiritual athlete moves from &quot;trope in early medieval English texts to metaphorical construct in late medieval and early modern English literature.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269232">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pilgrimage Route to Paradise: The Sacred and Profane Along the Dixie Highway]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares people and places of twentieth-century journeys on the Dixie Highway to several medieval pilgrimages, real and fictional, including CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[London and Southwark Poetic Companies: &#039;Si tost c&#039;amis&#039; and the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cooper discusses the poetic confraternities called &quot;puys,&quot; devoted to competitive writing of poetry. An edition and translation of Renaud de Hoiland&#039;s &quot;Si tost c&#039;amis&quot; serves as an example of the kind of civil performance being rejected by the storytellers of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marriage, Sexuality and the Family]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cartlidge examines the range of attitudes toward marriage, sexuality, and the family in CT - including questions of marriage as an ordering principle, sexuality as a threat to marriage, and sexuality as a form of aggression outside of marriage. Also assesses notions of extended family, maternal grief, and paternal affection. Considers MilT, RvT, MLT, WBPT, ClT, MerT, Sq-FranL, FranT, PhyT, PrT, and ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On &#039;. . . redoutynge of Mars and of his glorie&#039; - Attitudes to War in Middle English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Witalisz explores ambivalent attitudes toward war in Middle English romances, particularly those concerned with Troy or King Arthur. Chaucer&#039;s attitude is &quot;only implicit,&quot; and the anti-war stance attributed to him is based on &quot;his deliberate silence on the subject.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seventeen essays by various authors on topics ranging from the Middle English St. Francis to the Passion plays, the York Cycle, John Wycliff, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; Gower, Margery Kempe, and other medieval writers and their literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Medieval Dream Vision as Survey of Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Watts explains the pedagogy of teaching the dream vision at the undergraduate level, covering texts that include Macrobius, the &quot;Dream of the Rood,&quot; the&quot; Roman de la Rose,&quot; Dante, &quot;Pearl,&quot; &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; Christine de Pizan&#039;s &quot;Book of the City of Ladies,&quot; and selections from Chaucer. Comments that BD and HF (like other works surveyed) allow students to explore the &quot;processes of imitation, appropriation, and innovation&quot; that characterize much medieval literature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269226">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Crusades: A Study in Late Medieval Literary and Political Thought]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the Knight and Squire (and their respective tales) as embodiments of differing philosophies toward the Crusades. The Knight is linked to the Crusades&#039; earlier origins, while the Squire is seen as embodying a more romanticized approach to the conflicts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269225">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Past Perfect: Will It Do To Say Anything More About Chaucer?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on James Russell Lowell&#039;s essay &quot;Chaucer,&quot; published in North American Review 111 (1870): 155-99.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269224">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics and London Life]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Divided into three sections - &quot;Politics and Discourse,&quot; &quot;London Life and Chaucer&#039;s Poetry,&quot; and &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Social Circle&quot; - this essay surveys a variety of Chaucer&#039;s narratives and short poems, showing how they reflect urban and political elements in fourteenth-century London.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tambling reads several late medieval and Renaissance texts in relation to Walter Benjamin&#039;s notions of melancholy and Freudian concepts of death, as well as allegory and history. Individual chapters treat &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; Hoccleve&#039;s &quot;Complaint and Dialogue,&quot; Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Fall of Princes,&quot; Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid,&quot; and Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Henry V&quot;I and &quot;Richard III.&quot; A separate chapter - &quot;The Knight Sets Forth: Chaucer, Chrétien and Durer&quot; (pp. 64-93) - discusses &quot;madness, complaint and violence&quot; in KnT, focusing on exploration of the &quot;reasons for destructiveness in people so committed to order.&quot; Tambling compares Arcite&#039;s melancholy to the love-madness in Chrétien&#039;s &quot;Yvain,&quot; reads the &quot;modern instances&quot; of MkT as a critique of KnT, and comments on relations between KnT and Albrecht Durer&#039;s print &quot;The Knight, Death and the Devil.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marges/Seuils: Le liminal dans la littérature médiévale anglaise. Actes des journées d&#039;étude de mai 2002, juin 2003, juin 2004]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes seven essays that pertain to Chaucer. For these essays, search for Marges/Seuils under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rembrandt&#039;s Humor: Scatology, Satire, Burlesque, and Irony in Six Etchings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spellman compares Rembrandt&#039;s &quot;The Monk in the Cornfield&quot; to Chaucerian satires of clergy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Schultz critiques uses of &quot;heterosexual&quot; as a term and as an ahistorical concept in queer studies of medieval literature. Chaucerian critics (and others) use the term in ways that &quot;distort the very object&quot; of their studies, &quot;thwart&quot; history, and project modern sensibilities &quot;backward&quot; on the past. &quot;Heterosexual&quot; is as much a recent concept as is &quot;homosexual.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Queer Poetics: Rereading the Dream Trio]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Schibanoff challenges the notion that Chaucer escaped from the decadent, &quot;unmanly&quot; influence of French verse to achieve his status as &quot;father&quot; of English poetry. In BD, Chaucer adopts the persona of &quot;the weak, puerile, and loveless poet - the &#039;queer&#039; poet&quot; - to &quot;inoculate&quot; John of Gaunt against &quot;contemporary moral censure.&quot; In HF, he adopts Dante&#039;s &quot;hermaphroditic aesthetic&quot;; the narrator of HF fails to achieve &quot;the role of queer foil&quot; but compels acknowledgment of &quot;deviant poetics&quot; and dismisses traditional authority. PF offers a queer view of Alan de Lille&#039;s Plaint of Nature, and Chaucer&#039;s Nature &quot;is neither willing nor able to exclude sexual deviance from her realm.&quot; Traditional criticism of these poems is skewed by the &quot;deep-rooted heterosexism of our most basic modern thinking about Chaucer&#039;s art&quot; manifest in the &quot;presumptively heterosexual organic metaphors&quot; of literary criticism in general.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine essays by various authors with an introduction and epilogue that discuss literary and linguistic aspects of early standardization in English. For five essays that consider Chaucer specifically, search for Beginnings of Standardization under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Concise Companion to Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirteen essays intended for the new and returning student of Chaucer. Following the editor&#039;s introduction (pp. 1-10) describing facets of Chaucer&#039;s art and life and the contents of the collection, the work is divided into parts: Chaucer in Context, Dream Visions, Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales, and The Sound of Chaucer. For individual essays, search for Concise Companion to Chaucer under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic, Science and Romance: Chaucer and the Supernatural]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval beliefs and learning about magic and explores the narrative function and resonance of magic and the supernatural in Chaucer&#039;s writing. Also considers relations to natural philosophy or &quot;science&quot; and the shift from medieval to Renaissance notions of magic and the supernatural.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269215">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Apart from Chaucer&#039;s works, most romances in Middle English &quot;rewrite&quot; their French and Latin analogues, representing the virtuous aspects of love rather than the conventions of the courtly game. Chaucer&#039;s writing exemplifies the &quot;extremes of fin amour.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269214">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Companion to Middle English Hagiography]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. The book discusses late medieval English saints from a number of perspectives (readership, shrines and festivals, gender, historiography), with recurrent references to Chaucer, sustained discussion of SNT, references to MLT, and commentary on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;manipulation of hagiographical commonplaces&quot; in LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Introduction to ELN Forums. Cluster 1 : &#039;Vernacular Theology&#039; and Medieval Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Robertson introduces a series of seven essays responding to Nicholas Watson&#039;s Speculum essay &quot;Censorship and Cultural Change in Medieval England: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel&#039;s Constitutions of 1409&quot; (Speculum 70 [1995]: 822-64). Robertson recounts the role of major Chaucerians in the examination of literary production through the lens of religion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rethinking Middle English under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canterbury Tales and London Club Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that a substantial turn away from the topic of idealized love in Chaucer&#039;s writing after 1387 demonstrates a shift in his real and imagined audiences. In the second half of his career, Chaucer&#039;s audience may have been an almost exclusively male &quot;Chaucer circle&quot; whose tastes differed from earlier, court audiences.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints seven of Patterson&#039;s essays, with a new introduction, &quot;Historicism and Postmodernity&quot; (pp. 1-18), that explains why he pursues the &quot;micronarratives&quot; of New Historicism rather than those of psychoanalytic criticism. Patterson affirms the functions of historical criticism despite postmodern challenges to certainty.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269209">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English: Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sixteen essays by various authors on linguistic topics in Old and Middle English, including a survey of the teaching of medieval English in Korea. The papers were presented at the first international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics, Chiba University, Japan, September 1-3, 2005. For two papers that pertain to Chaucer, search for Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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