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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letters to the Dukes of Lancaster in 1381 and 1399]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The letters provide a new perspective on the uprising of 1381,the usurpation of 1399, and exploitation of the language of love.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268993">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Leve Brother : Fraternalism and Craft Identity in the Miller&#039;s Prologue and Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pappano characterizes late medieval craft guilds and the roles they play in CT, particularly the recurrent concern with &quot;male artisan identity.&quot; Through MilPT, Chaucer critiques the exclusionary nature of &quot;craft fraternalism.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270082">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Levinas and Medieval Literature: The &quot;Difficult Reading&quot; of English and Rabbinic Texts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by various authors, plus an introduction by the editors, consider interactions among Christian allegory, talmudic hermeneutics, and the interpretive theory of Emmanuel Levinas. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Levinas and Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270161">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Levinas, Allegory, and Chaucer&#039;s Clerk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines parallels between Levinas&#039;s writing and medieval allegory. Yager reads ClT in a Levinasian mode to generate an open-ended reading or &quot;an exercise in ifs.&quot; ClT can be read as an ethical allegory; Chaucer, as an ethical allegorist. Yager discusses similarities between Griselda and the ethical other.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264706">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lewis Clifford and the Kingdom of Navarre]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Newly discovered Spanish document reports 400 gold &quot;fortes&quot; paid to Lewis Clifford, Chaucer&#039;s friend, on behalf of Carlos II of Navarre, thus connecting Clifford with the Black Prince&#039;s Spanish campaign, and explaining some of his other connections with British and Spanish royalty.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lex Scripta et Lex Non Scripta: Tensions Between Law and Language in Late Fourteenth-Century England and Its Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how Chaucer and the Gawain poet explore the legal power of written and spoken words. &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; challenges the potency of oral oaths, WBT parodies courtroom rhetoric, the GP sketch of the Sergeant of Law exposes legal subversion of land law, PardPT abuse and fetishize texts, and CYPT depicts the fearful prospect that texts are empty and language inauthentic.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269311">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lexical and Literary Evidence for Medieval Trade in Precious Goods: Old French &#039;Rohal,&#039; &#039;Roal,&#039; and Middle English &#039;Walrus (and Narwhal?) Ivory&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Linguistic and economic background to uses of ivory in medieval decoration, including the saddle of Sir Thopas (Th 7.875-78).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263504">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lexical Proximity and Its Application to a Literary Text: A Case Study on &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Lexical proximity&quot; contributes to irony in MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268227">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lexis and Context in Chaucer: Slydynge and Its Related Words in Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses &quot;slydynge&quot; and related words (such as &quot;kynde&quot; and &quot;pite&quot;) with regard to Criseyde&#039;s characterization. Examines also the syntactic structures containing those words.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262498">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lexis and Structure in &#039;The Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In CYT, Chaucer&#039;s comic use of technical terms related to alchemy or to alchemists (e.g., &quot;craft,&quot; &quot;disciplyne,&quot; &quot;emprise,&quot; &quot;experience,&quot; &quot;labour,&quot; &quot;loore,&quot; &quot;maistrie,&quot; &quot;multiplicatioun,&quot; &quot;philosophie,&quot; &quot;science,&quot; &quot;travaille,&quot; &quot;wirkyng,&quot; &quot;philosophre,&quot; &quot;alkamystre&quot;) reveals the falsehood and follies naturally inherent in the Canon and his &quot;craft.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266373">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Libertine Scribes and Maidenly Editors: Meditations on Textual Criticism and Metrics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Dryden&#039;s and Tyrwhitt&#039;s views of Chaucer&#039;s meter as background to assessing editorial treatments of the meter of &quot;Pearl.&quot;  Argues that editors need to emend the manuscript of &quot;Pearl&quot; more aggressively to minimize scribal interventions and clarify the metrical virtuosity of the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lie and Fable in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Manciple&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that both the structure and the content of ManT explore the relativity of truth and lie. Regarding the structure, the dependence on literature of practical wisdom raises a doubt as to the tale&#039;s authority as an exemplum. As for the content, ManT is &quot;no longer about the delayed discovery of truth as in &#039;Othello&#039;,&quot; and instead focuses on Phoebus&#039;s &quot;confused state of mind,&quot; in which &quot;truth is whatever he wishes to believe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261660">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lie It As It Plays: Chaucer Becomes an Author]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In GP, Chaucer poses himself as a &quot;liar,&quot; capable of impossible feats of memory; in tales such as MilT, he capitalizes on the oral genre of joking.  As a liar and a joker, the literate Chaucer manipulates oral expectations, compelling his audience to recognize the art of fiction and join in his laughter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261572">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Liebe als Krankheit]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the forms and conventions of Middle English lyrics that treat love-sickness, including MercB, and those in TC and KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Liebe als Krankheit: 3. Kolloquium der Forschungsstelle fur europaische Lyrik des Mittelalters an der Universitat Mannheim]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine essays by various authors on love-sickness in classical and medieval literature.  The essays discuss the topos in medicine, classical writing, medieval Latin, Islamic writing, troubadour poetry, ansd medieval vernacular languages: Spanish, French, English, and German.<br />
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Liebe als Krankheit under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lies, Puns, Tallies: Marital and Material Deceit in Langland and Chaucer.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes Langland&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;tally-tale-tail&quot; puns in &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; and ShT, clarifying medieval understandings of signification, polysemy, equivocation, deception, economic value, and misogyny. Unlike Lady Mede, who is trapped in a &quot;loop of polysemous equivocations&quot;&quot; the merchant&#039;s  wife in ShT recognizes &quot;the mercantile, circulatory structures that ensnare her and use[s] them to pursue her own pleasures.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266410">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Draws from thirteenth-century pastoral literature (much of it in manuscript) that treats &quot;Sins of the Tongue&quot; to demonstrate how a pastoral &quot;speech code&quot; was &quot;woven into late medieval [literary] texts.&quot;  Chapters 1 and 2 distinguish in the pastoral literature certain &quot;rhetorical paradigms,&quot; while Chapters 3-6 identify and explore these paradigms in &quot;Patience,&quot; &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Craun concludes that in GP, ManP, and ManT the Manciple &quot;subverts the prudential strain in pastoral discourse, just as he practices deviant speech with impunity.&quot;  In ParsT, however, the Parson restores order, &quot;responding&quot; to the Manciple with &quot;conventional pastoral discourse on verbal sin&quot; and &quot;enact[ing] what he exhorts of others.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261289">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Life and Fiction in the Canterbury Tales: A New Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s use of the name &quot;Eglentyne&quot; in the description of the Prioress in GP and in a scene of KnT emphasizes the disparity between reality and the courtly love tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273105">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of Jill Mann&#039;s previously published essays, edited with an introduction by Mark David Rasmussen. The Preface explains that the essays are organized around exploring the implications of key words as ways to understand human experience in medieval literature.  Focuses on Mann&#039;s contributions to Middle English studies.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Life without Death: The Old Man in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Old Man of PardT, wretched because of his inability to die, embodies a lesson of &quot;contemptus mundi&quot; that should correct the rioters&#039; &quot;rash wish&quot; to overcome physical death,but due to their spiritual blindness, they fail to heed his warning.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274725">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Life&#039;s Reach: Territory, Display, Ekphrasis.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates and appreciates the &quot;indisputable fact of our common aliveness,&quot; exploring various topics for evidence of cognitive and aesthetic similarities: biosemiotics, real estate advertising, human natal development, communal grooming, and the temporal yearnings of Virgilian ekphrasis and its reflexes in BD and HF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277604">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lifelines: Tracing Organic Vitalities in Sacred and Secular Biography.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;what constitutes &#039;life&#039; in hagiographical literature&quot; and medieval life-writing in general, focusing on &quot;philosophical and organic categories of life&quot; rather than &quot;political, social, and ecclesiastic content.&quot; Assesses Walter Daniel&#039;s &quot;Life of Aelred of Rievaulx,&quot; animal encounters in the &quot;South English Legendary,&quot; &quot;thing power&quot; in &quot;Pearl&quot; and SNT, and enlivening relationships in MkT (Cenobia) and &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Light and Darkness in &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;--The &#039;Aesthetics of Light&#039; of Gothic Art]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pseudo Dionysius Areopagita&#039;s theory of &quot;One Light of God&quot; had very much to do with the rich achievements of Gothic art.  Consciously or unconsciously, Chaucer was a man in the High Gothic era.  In BD his aesthetic idea is clearly presented by the fine counterpointing of &quot;white&quot; and &quot;black&quot; and the metaphor of &quot;light.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265265">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Light of Learning: Selected Essays of Morton W. Bloomfield, 1970-1986]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints twenty-four essays by Morton W. Bloomfield. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The eight devoted to Chaucer are &quot;The &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039; as Framed Narrative&quot;; &quot;The &#039;Miller&#039;s Tale&#039;--An UnBoethian Interpretation&quot;; &quot;The &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;: A Tragedy of Victimization and a Christian Comedy&quot;; &quot;The &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: A Tragicomedy of the Neglect of Counsel--The Limits of Art&quot;; &quot;The &#039;Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;: A Story of Unanswered Questions&quot;; &quot;The &#039;Friar&#039;s Tale&#039; As a Liminal Tale&quot;; &quot;Troilus&#039; Paraclausithyron and Its Setting&quot;; and &quot;The Gloomy Chaucer.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277177">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lik Antigone v predmoderni literaturi.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys depictions of Antigone in western literature from Antiquity through the late Middle Ages, with assessment of Chaucer&#039;s characterization of her in TC as an interweaving of Trojan and Theban traditions. In Bulgarian with English abstract.]]></dcterms:description>
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