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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Political Pamphleteer in Late Medieval England : Thomas Fovent, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Usk, and the Merciless Parliament of 1388]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the identity and political career of Thomas Fovent (Favent), author of the polemical treatise on the Merciless Parliament--&quot;Historia Mirabilis Parliament&quot;--arguing that the treatise is best regarded as a &quot;pamphlet,&quot; an index to the public opinion of the age, not partisan propaganda. Oliver compares and contrasts Fovent&#039;s political savvy and caution with those of Chaucer and Usk.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Absent Glosses : A Crisis of Vernacular Hermeneutics in Late-Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the lack of extensive glosses and commentaries on late Middle English literature, including Chaucer, arguing that in England, unlike on the Continent, the concern with &quot;translatio studii&quot; (transferring the authority of the ancients to the present) was &quot;tainted by the Lollards&quot; and their promotion of the vernacular.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268606">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Proverbs : A Handbook]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction to the study of proverbs (paremiology), covering definition and classification, several examples over time, scholarly approaches, and analyses of the contexts in which proverbs appear (e.g., song, advertising, cartoons, and literature). Traces &quot;first come, first served&quot; to WBP and discusses the development and disappearance of the association of millers with gold thumbs.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268605">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages : A Sourcebook]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthology for teaching medieval ideas about love, sex, and marriage; includes modern translation of portions of Chaucer&#039;s works: PardT, WBP, and Buk.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268604">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector : Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirty-eight essays and two commemorations celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Takamiya, focusing on &quot;medieval manuscripts and early printed books, Arthurian literature, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism.&quot; Many of the essays pertain to volumes in the honoree&#039;s collection. The book includes a bibliography of Takamiya&#039;s publications.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For seven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Book and a Modern Collector under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2004]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Team Teaching the Literature of the European and Islamic Middle Ages : The European Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lynch describes how a team-taught, cross-cultural course in European and Islamic literatures discovers dimensions in the literatures, including SqT, FranT, and MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268602">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining a Medieval English Nation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction by the editor and ten essays by various authors consider the presence and nature of nationalism in medieval England. Medieval scholarly tradition and political structures anticipate the nation state and the nationalist discourses of modernity. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Imagining a Medieval English Nation under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268601">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer as Performer: Narrative Strategies in the Dream Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the &quot;linguistic, communicative and narrative markers of performativity&quot; in BD, HF, and PF, arguing that Chaucer composed them for live performance but also with an eye to repeated performance or reading.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268600">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Literature for Children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sixteen essays by various authors, most of them addressing individual texts as literature written for children--for example, &quot;The Babees Book,&quot; &quot;Sir Gowther,&quot; Aelfric&#039;s &quot;Colloquy,&quot; and selections from the &quot;Gesta Romanorum&quot; and from Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In his introduction, Kline assesses &quot;the history and definition of medieval children&#039;s literature.&quot; Includes references to Chaucer throughout. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Literature for Children under Alterative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268599">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Room of One&#039;s Own : Reale und mentale Innenraume weiblicher Selbstbestimmung im spatmittelalterlichen England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines interior space in late medieval English architecture, manuscript illumination, and literature, focusing on homes, churches, and their imagery as they helped to shape feminine identity.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Topics include Margaret Beaufort and her circle, Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, cycle plays, &quot;The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ,&quot; and works by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and others. Recurrent attention to CT, LGW, and especially TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268598">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Dream and the Book : Chaucer&#039;s Dream-Poetry, Faculty Psychology, and the Poetics of Recombination]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines medieval notions of poetics and faculty psychology as approaches to BD, HF, PF, and LGWP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interstices: Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors, a forward and an introduction, a bibliography of Rigg&#039;s publications, and a subject index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer; search for Interstices under Alternative Title..]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Lat be thyne olde ensaumples&#039; : Chaucer and Proverbs]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gray comments on the cultural value and functions of proverbs and their kin (adages, aphorisms, etc.), focusing on two &quot;clusters&quot; of proverbs: the &quot;proverb war&quot; of WBP and the complex and intricate uses of proverbs by Pandarus, Criseyde, and the narrator in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268595">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ratgeber des Konigs : Furstenspiegel und Herrscherideal im spatmittelalterlichen England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A New Historicist assessment of Middle English mirrors for princes: Chaucer&#039;s Mel and works by Trevisa, Hoccleve, Lydgate and Burgh, Hays, Ashby, and Gower. These texts construct an ideal king and normative social values and-set against the reign and deposition of Richard II-disclose much about contemporary society.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Grassnick explores topics such as counsel, virtue, and strategies of transmission and includes an appendix that lists owners of mirrors for princes in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Simply Marvelous]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fradenburg contemplates medieval romance as a product of desire and a producer of jouissance. Considers the functions and values of wonder; the enjoyment and signification of romance; and the relationships of wonder to &quot;vernacularity,&quot; technology, weariness, and realism.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on SqT, Th, TC, and a number of other texts: &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; the &quot;Tain bo Cuailinge,&quot; &quot;Culhwch &amp; Olwen,&quot; and other narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268593">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Narrative : An Introduction]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Davenport describes several categories of medieval narrative, focusing on English literature, particularly Chaucer. Discusses didactic narratives (exempla and fables), historical accounts (chronicle, epic, romance), comic tales (fabliaux and novella), fantasies (otherworldly voyages and dream visions), tragedies, and compilations, as well as prologues and narrative personae.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the development of each category out of classical and vernacular traditions and into late medieval England, commenting on how medieval notions of narrative helped shape later views. Pays sustained attention to CT and TC, with recurrent comments on Chaucer&#039;s other works and a wide range of other medieval stories.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268592">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English Literature : A Guide to Criticism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction to critical approaches to Middle English literature, featuring twenty-two reprinted examples of critical methods by various authors. Chapters include authorship; textual form; genre; language, style and rhetoric; allegory; historicism; gender; and identity. .]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Each chapter includes examples (mostly excerpts), a historical critical introduction, and suggestions for further reading. Discussion of Chaucer and his works (especially CT and TC) is important--often central--to nearly every chapter.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The English Romance in Time : Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The motifs of medieval romances continued to be familiar in Tudor-Stuart England, although their meanings and the ways they were understood changed in time. Cooper traces a broad variety of romance motifs--quest, pilgrimage, encounters with fairies, the &quot;Fair Unknown,&quot; threats to virginity, monstrous birth, magic and nonfunctioning magic, troth-plighting, etc.--documenting their availability to the English Renaissance in black-letter editions of medieval works and discussing their development and appropriation in Renaissance drama and narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[References to Chaucer and his works recur throughout, particularly to TC and the romances of CT (KnT, MLT, WBT, FranT, and Th). Includes an appendix on medieval romance in English after 1500.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Camargo explores how time functions rhetorically in Chaucer&#039;s works, discussing duration as a feature of style (amplification and abbreviation), time as an attribute of action (time as cause) and person (time of birth as character), and several examples of specious argument from opportunity. Draws examples from CT and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Text and Voice : The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors on medieval verbal and visual rhetoric, with recurrent attention to authority, glossing, and vernacularity. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Text and Voice under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shakespeare and the Puppet Sphere]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Barasch traces puppetry from Socrates to the Renaissance, arguing that Elizabethan puppet theatre conveyed popular learning. Chaucer&#039;s descriptions of the pilgrim Geoffrey as a &quot;popet&quot; (7.701-2) and of Alison as a &quot;popelote&quot; (MilT 1.3254) may reflect puppet entertainment in the fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Usefulness and Use Value of Books : A Medieval and Modern Inquiry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses medieval notions of the utility of books, comparing modern and medieval theoretical discussions. Astell&#039;s essay focuses on the symbolic exchange value of books and the &quot;antisacrificial rhetorical strategies&quot; for offering books as gifts to God and to others. Includes discussion of GP as an accessus to CT and of Ret as the place where Chaucer &quot;assumes responsibility for the utilitas of his poetry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268586">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England : Her Life and Representation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays by various authors on topics ranging from Anglo-Norman literature to early modern portraiture and drama. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer,  of this volume.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tracks developments in the theory and practice of personification allegory in medieval literature (especially the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; works by Dante, and works by Chaucer) in relation to optical theory and epistemology. As confidence in the epistemological reliability of vision and language diminishes historically, allegory becomes a less confident genre. According to Akbari, there is a &quot;distinct progression in Chaucer&#039;s use of faculty psychology,&quot; particularly his &quot;use of vision as a metaphor for knowing.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As confidence in the epistemological reliability of vision and language diminishes historically, allegory becomes a less confident genre. According to Akbari, there is a &quot;distinct progression in Chaucer&#039;s use of faculty psychology,&quot; particularly his &quot;use of vision as a metaphor for knowing.&quot; Reliance on allegorical vision in his early works (BD, SNT, Bo) gives way to dependence on sound (PF, HF, LGWP) and eventually to abandonment of personification and allegory in CT (Mel and MerT), although vestiges remain.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Prayer in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Schooler examines WBPT, KnT, and TC, using speech-act theory to reveal Chaucer&#039;s attitudes toward prayer as personal utterance rather than rote activity.]]></dcterms:description>
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