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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Concepts of Literary Closure: Theory and Practice]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[First, McGerr reviews modern theories on closure and examines medieval theory on literary design and closure in Geoffrey of Vinsauf, John of Garland, Ludolf of Hildesheim, Brunetto Latini, Dante, and others to show that &quot;medieval concepts of closure were both more complex and closer to modern concepts than is usually assumed.&quot;  The medieval concept of closure included &quot;the sense of recapitulation of the whole, framed to have the greatest impact on the audience.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Second, McGerr examines &quot;the relationship of theory and practice&quot; in medieval works, including those of Bocaccio, Machaut, and Jean de Meun and Chaucer&#039;s BD, PF, KnT, WBT, FranT, TC, HF, and CT--especially the playfulness in TC, which &quot;reflects a self-consciousness about language and fiction that modern closure theory attributes to modern literature alone.&quot;  Medieval writers and readers appreciated &quot;openness&quot; or &quot;suspension of closure.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Cosmology and European Literature: Dante and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes &quot;Aristotelian cosmology&quot; and describes its role as a structural and thematic device in Dante&#039;s &quot;Paradiso.&quot; Describes the roles of astrology, the humours, and alchemy in Chaucer&#039;s CT, especially in the description of the Physician and in CYPT. Includes a brief bibliographical essay on science in the works of the two poets.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Crime and Social Control]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. The essays focus on intersections between literary and historical texts, especially those concerned with representations of law and transgression of law. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Crime and Social Control under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers brief backgrounds to historical novels, medievalism, and crime fiction, and surveys the subgenre of medieval crime fiction, i.e., novels &quot;featuring   crime or mystery that is solved by a &#039;detective&#039; and set during the European Middle Ages.&quot; Chapter 6, &quot;Poet or PI?,&quot; considers narratives about medieval historical figures who are &quot;recast as detectives,&quot; and shows that Chaucer is &quot;by far the most popular medieval figure to be fictionalized this way,&quot; describing some fifteen novels in which he appears in major roles, and commenting on Chaucerian characters and motifs that appear in similar works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how the &quot;sacred and the secular interact&quot; in Latin, French, and English texts and frames this &quot;crossover concept&quot; as key to understanding medieval literature. Includes discussion of PrT, FranT, KnT, MLT, WBPT, LGW, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269189">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seventeen essays by various authors on topics such as Robin Hood, Chaucer, medieval romance, medievalism, cultural studies, and modern crime fiction. Includes an introduction (pp. 1-6) and a bibliography of Knight&#039;s publications (pp. 269-77). For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Cultural Studies under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Culture and Society.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An anthology of readings from medieval sources--literary, political, religious, etc.-- translated into modern English. Includes GP (translated by Frank E. Hill), titled &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Picture of Medieval Society,&quot; with a brief descriptive introduction.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Culture: The Image and the City.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes selections and excerpts from medieval literature and history (most in modern English), offered for use as a textbook in social history. Includes GP, lines 1-274 (pp. 228-48), in normalized Middle English, with no notes or glosses, accompanied by b&amp;w details of four pages of the Ellesmere manuscript.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes a wide array of medieval texts that pertain to disability studies, each with an introduction and apparatus by individual contributors. Entries include Historical and Medical Documents, Religious Texts, Poetry, Prose, Drama, and visual Images. The Poetry section includes Middle English editions, with notes and glosses, of MerT (Moria Fitzgibbons), MLT (Paul A. Broyles), and the GP description of the Wife of Bath, with WBPT (Tory V. Pearman). The volume includes a General Introduction by the editor and a Thematic Table of Contents.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Discussions of the Role of the Author: A Preliminary Survey, with Particular Reference to Chaucer and Gower]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Theological commentators in the Middle Ages distinguished between the roles of &quot;auctor&quot; and &quot;compilator.&quot;  Gower seems to have modeled his main literary stances (as &quot;propheta&quot; in the &quot;Vox Clamantis&quot; and &quot;sapiens&quot; in the &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot;) on the theological descriptions of the authorial role.  By contrast, Chaucer gradually became aware of the potential of the &quot;compilatio,&quot; which he fully exploited in CT. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  The literary stances which he adopted in this work resemble the compilers&#039; description of their role.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Dog Whisperers: The Poetics of Rehabilitation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Departs from purely functional or allegorical approaches to the whelp in BD by situating the narrative&#039;s portrayal of canine-human relations within the field of critical animal studies. Establishes the role of the whelp in rectifying human dysfunction by focusing on problems of identity and communication and drawing on literary, as well as sociological, frameworks (e.g., modern prison rehabilitation programs). The uncanny communicative bond between whelp and dreamer reveals a &quot;motion away from subhuman singularity and toward humane community.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270102">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays by various authors (and an introduction by the editors) address a range of topics: domestic and monastic spaces, attitudes toward living alone, various literary and historical depictions of homes and households, etc. The collection cites Chaucer&#039;s works throughout. For one essay that focuse on ClT, search for Medieval Domesticity under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268920">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Dream Visions : Chaucer&#039;s Book of the Duchess]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quinn defines the genre of dream vision, surveys &quot;standard readings&quot; of BD, and offers a &quot;re-vision&quot; of the poem that reconciles its humor and sadness by imagining it as a performance some years after the death of Blanche. The poem may have been performed on the occasion of Gaunt&#039;s betrothal to Constanza of Castile or in acknowledgment of his love of Katherine Swynford.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Dream-Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the backgrounds and traditions of &quot;dream-poetry&quot; in English literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, exploring poets&#039; awareness of writing within an ongoing tradition and their uses of the dream device to express their self-reflexive consciousness about being writers. Although not properly a genre, such poetry capitalizes on various earlier traditions of dreams and visions in literature (the Bible, Macrobius, Boethius, etc.), particularly the French &quot;Roman de le Rose.&quot; Considers Chaucer; the alliterative tradition of &quot;Pearl,&quot; &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; &quot;Winner and Waster,&quot; etc.; and the &quot;Chaucerian tradition&quot; of Lydgate, Clanvowe, Dunbar, Skelton, Scottish poetry, and more.  Examines each of Chaucer&#039;s dream poems (BD, HF, PF, and LGWP) in turn, reading them as a developing sequence that reflects cognizance of real dreams. Also attends to Chaucer&#039;s comments on dreams in TC and NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Ekphrasis: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes &quot;medieval approaches to vision, to the relations between text and image and to ekphrasis&quot; before assessing KnT as Chaucer&#039;s critique of &quot;attempts to essentialise and keep separate different media and genres, especially the verbal and the visual.&quot; Focuses on the temples, Emily&#039;s ablutions, and the tournament battle.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277463">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers precedents from medieval texts to show that to learn from a text, readers &quot;have reason to consider what its author means&quot;; that, when readers are &quot;morally engaged with a text,&quot; they have reason to engage with the author&#039;s intentions&quot;; and that, when moved by a text, readers &quot;attempt an interpersonal connection with the author behind the words.&quot; Draws examples from various works, including Chaucer&#039;s Th and Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270521">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval England: A Ten Day Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Instructions, outlines, plot synopses, and handouts for use in teaching English medieval literature (including selections from CT) to high school seniors.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval England: An Encyclopedia]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An alphabetical encyclopedia from &quot;Abbo of Fleury&quot; to &quot;York Virgin and Child.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Written by members of a team of contributors, the entries provide fundamental, descriptive information and bibliographies for further reading. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The volume is cross-referenced and indexed and includes maps, genealogies, and several glossaries of specialized terminology. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The entry on Chaucer (pp. 172-75) is by Helen Cooper; on Chaucerian apocrypha (pp. 175-76), by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269487">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Comedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors discuss comedy in Old English literature and in several Middle English media: drama, narrative poetry, stained glass, illuminations, and misericords. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English Comedy under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269184">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes five essays that pertain to Chaucer; for the individual essays search for Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This textbook anthology is organized by genre, and includes Chaucer&#039;s MilT, Th, and Purse.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Textbook anthology of Old and Middle English literature that includes selections from Chaucer (pp. 119-283) in Middle English with glosses, notes, and introductions to Chaucer&#039;s life, works, and language. Selections include GP, MilPT, NPPT (with two cock-and-fox analogues), WBPT, FranPT, PardPT, Ret, Gent, Truth, the rondel from PF, TC 1.400-20, the Ballade from LGWP, Ros, Purse, and Adam. Second edition in 2002.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268406">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Literature and the Idea of the Anthology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the idea of the anthology as a fundamental characteristic of medieval literature, using CT as an example because individual tales were often copied into other anthologies.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Literature: A Spanish Approach]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s knowledge of Spain in light of medieval Spanish-English relations.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Pedro-of-Spain stanzas of MkT and historical evidence suggest that Chaucer had direct contact with Spain in the 1360s, perhaps as an important envoy of the English royal family.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274098">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers essays that reflect the variety of critical viewpoints of medieval writers, including William Langland and Chaucer. Part 2 is devoted to Chaucer scholarship. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English Literature (Fannon) under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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