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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;In Hir Tellyng Difference&#039;: Gender, Authority, and Interpretation in the Tale of Melibee]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Mel is &quot;very much about what happens when texts are taken out of one context and put to work in another.&quot; Prudence invokes gender in shaping her arguments, and her presentation of her authorities reminds us that the &quot;processes of textual engendering and reproduction&quot; are not simple transmission. Her &quot;work&quot; as a compiler and interpreter &quot;mirrors Chaucer&#039;s own role&quot; in compiling his tales, as well as his concern about the relationship between authority and authorship.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269030">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contradiction and Conciliation in Chaucer&#039;s Tale of Melibee]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contradictions inherent in medieval social order are evident in the sources of Mel, but Chaucer reconciles these contradictions through his treatment of pity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269029">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Squire&#039;s Tale and the Renaissance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bloomfield considers natural law, an interest in distant geography, and the similarities between magic and technology in SqT as evidence of the &quot;new spirit of the Renaissance&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269028">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wifely Eye for the Manly Guy: Trading the Masculine Image in the Shipman&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The wife in ShT refuses to submit to the &quot;comprehensive masculine dominance&quot; of the competitive world of her husband and the monk. The two men understand their manliness in terms of the &quot;image of potency&quot;; like commerce, manliness is based on appearance only.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A revised version of this essay is in Crocker&#039;s Chaucer&#039;s Visions of Masculinity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Mayde Child&#039; in The Shipman&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the upbringing of young people in CT. Mentioned in only three lines, the &quot;mayde child&quot; in ShT exemplifies the late medieval practice of wardship. The words signify the callous immorality of the guardian who, like the governesses castigated in PhyT, fails to set a good moral example.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269026">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Cecilia : Chaucer&#039;s Valiant Woman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Like the Valiant Woman of Proverbs 31:10-31, Cecilia brings honor to her husband, manages her household well, works untiringly, and faces danger with fearless self-confidence. In contrast to Harry Bailly, who sets up the rules and pragmatic externals of the pilgrimage, Cecilia points the way to a transformative pilgrimage.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269025">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fifteenth-Century Collections of Female Saints&#039; Lives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the contents of Cambridge University Library MS Additional 4122 with similar contemporary compilations, encouraging further study of such devotional collections. The presence of Chaucer&#039;s SNT in such anthologies may indicate his shaping influence on the tradition, later modified by Lydgate, Bokenham, and Capgrave.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269024">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Representing the Countryside in Fourteenth-Century England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As part of a larger discussion of medieval estate management and its literary representations, Morris examines the character of Piers Plowman and Chaucer&#039;s Oswald the Reeve.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269023">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sin and Sensibility : The Conscience of Chaucer&#039;s Prioress]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the GP description of the Prioress, the term conscience, used to describe her mental operations, implies not sensibility or emotion but rather prescription or governance. The Prioress&#039;s display is not emotive but mimetic, and her performance reveals the moral disengagement of the court and cloister.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269022">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Punishment of the Jews, Hugh of Lincoln, and the Question of Satire in Chaucer&#039;s Prioress&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s ties to Lincoln and the reference to Hugh of Lincoln in PrT make it unlikely that Chaucer was satirizing anti-Semitism in the Tale. The punishment of drawing and hanging in PrT refers to historical cruelty and reflects an attitude prevalent among important members of Chaucer&#039;s audience, including John of Gaunt and his circle.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269021">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lumiansky&#039;s Paradox : Ethics, Aesthetics and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The linked anti-Semitism and poetic virtuosity of PrT confront medievalists with a paradox, in which accurately representing the past and combating bigotry in the present are pitted against each other. Resolving this paradox by ignoring aesthetics in favor of historicism is not a solution; engaging it illuminates the possibility of an ethical aesthetics.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269020">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ignorance, System, and Sacrifice : A Literary Reading of the Prioress&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads PrT as satiric, an exposé of the horrors of &quot;institutional ignorance,&quot; both Christian and Jewish.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269019">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Der Antijudische Diskurs im Mittelalter am Beispiel Mittelenglischer Dramen und der Prioress&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bauer compares examples of anti-Jewish discourse in the &quot;Ludus Coventriae&quot; (&quot;deicide&quot;), PrT (&quot;ritual murder&quot;), and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament (&quot;desecration of the host&quot;). All three texts criminalize, victimize, and dehumanize Jews, demonstrating that anti-Jewish discourse did not depend on the presence of a Jewish minority within Christian society but could be memorialized by stereotypes in literary texts from generation to generation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269018">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, Spain, and the Prioress&#039;s Antisemitism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The anti-Semitism of PrT is attributable to the Prioress, not to Chaucer, who would have known Jews through the courts of Castile (referred to in MkT) and who presents Jews as &quot;renowned historians and transmitters of knowledge in the field of astronomy&quot; (in HF and Astr). Besserman examines critical responses to PrT and the reactions of the other pilgrims to the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269017">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Physician and Astronomy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the GP description of Chaucer&#039;s Physician, assessing the extent to which the Physician&#039;s astrological medicine is satiric when seen in relation to such works as Nicholas of Lynn&#039;s Kalendarium.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269016">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Vision of the Tree of Life : Crossing the Road with the Rood in the Parson&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although ParsT relies heavily on Raymond de Penaforte&#039;s &quot;Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio,&quot; Chaucer extracts one chapter from the treatise and substitutes a &quot;tree of life&quot; for Raymond&#039;s pilgrimage metaphor. By indicating that one can live a life of religion here in this world, Chaucer adapts his work to the fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269015">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Public Christianity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s religion is important even in his secular tales, a reflection of his public stance as a lay penitent, a member of the &quot;mediocriter boni,&quot; a category of the religious to be distinguished from the contemplative path of the &quot;perfecti.&quot; Reads ParsT as a virtual autobiography of Chaucer&#039;s view of religion and as indication of how the Pilgrims reflect the values of the &quot;lay religious.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269014">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Paroles d&#039;oiseaux, paroles oiseuses : Le discours amoureux et l&#039;arbitrage du cœur dans Le parlement des oiseaux]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Yvernault explores various levels of the love discourse in PF in relation to the roles played by reflection and silence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269013">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Horticulture et orties : Le paradis contrarié du Parlement des oiseaux]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits that uncertainty and ambiguity are structuring stylistic techniques of Chaucer&#039;s descriptions in PF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269012">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Adaptation of Boccaccio&#039;s Temple of Venus in the Parliament of Fowls]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Following Aristotle, medieval poets consider poetry a branch of moral philosophy. Whether or not Chaucer knew Boccaccio&#039;s own glosses on the &quot;Teseida,&quot; he adapts the Italian work to his own treatment of allegorical figures and so justifies Usk&#039;s description of Chaucer as a noble, philosophical poet.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269011">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Animaux et distanciation dans The Parliament of Fowls]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes Chaucer&#039;s characterization of the birds in PF to explore the process of &quot;distanciation,&quot; stemming from two coexisting viewpoints in the poem: the author&#039;s and the dreamer&#039;s.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269010">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Judaic Other in Dante, the &quot;Gawain&quot; Poet, and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Four chapters and an epilogue. Chapter 1 establishes the background for exploration of &quot;the late medieval legacy of early Christianity&#039;s appropriation of the Hebrew scriptures.&quot; Chapters 2-3 assess Dante&#039;s &quot;Commedia&quot; and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; respectively. Chapter 4, &quot;The Jewish Pardoner and Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales&quot; (pp. 111-44), explores how in PardPT and PrT Christian appropriations of the Old Testament are cast into relief by the conflicts and contingencies of scriptural interpretation. In this way, the appropriations &quot;betray a reliance upon the legitimacy and currency of the original precepts.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269009">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer on the Couch: The Pardoner&#039;s Performance and the Case for Psychoanalytic Criticism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Parapractic&quot; repetitions in PardPT indicate that the Pardoner may be an &quot;unconscious inversion&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s own desires for home and for his absent father.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269008">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Belial, Belialism, and the Diabolic Power of Rhetoric from Cynewulf to Milton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the development of Belial as a personification of the power of rhetoric to deceive; discusses Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner as an example.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;: Mixed Genres and Multi-Layered Worlds of Illusion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[NPT can best be approached by focusing on form and style rather than on theme and narrator. Attempting to define a central theme or message is frustrated by the Tale&#039;s allusive richness and multiplicity of perspectives, and the narrator is largely generated by the Tale. An example of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;virtuoso comic art at its height,&quot; NPT leaves central matters of interpretation to the reader.]]></dcterms:description>
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