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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Boke of Coumfort of Bois.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Publishes &quot;for the first time a full transcription of an anonymous Middle English translation of Book I of the &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; which is held by the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and catalogued as MS AUCT. F.3.5,&quot; drawing the title from &quot;author&#039;s introduction&quot; to the work, and accepting a suggestion in the Bodleian catalogue that the text &quot;depends upon Chaucer&#039;s translation of the &#039;Consolation&#039;&quot; (i.e., Bo), although &quot;&#039;modified and paraphrased and to some extent accompanied by a commentary&#039;.&quot; The brief Introduction focuses on the commentary, and on linguistic and textual concerns.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Boke of Coumfort of Bois. [Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Auct. F.3.5]: A Transcription with Introduction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Transcribes the text of &quot;The Boke of Coumfort of Bois,&quot; a Middle English translation of Book 1 of Boethius&#039;s Consolation of Philosophy, found only in MS Auct. F.3.5. Accepts the claim in the Bodleian catalogue that the translation depends upon Chaucer&#039;s Bo as its source, &quot;modified and paraphrased and to some extent accompanied by a commentary.&quot; Originally transcribed, edited, and introduced by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Jason Edward Streed, and William H. Watts in Carmina Philosophiae 2 (1993): 55-104.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276256">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interrogates differences and tensions between modern black British poetry and the dominant Anglo-American tradition, focusing on the use of &quot;Caribbean creole&quot; to resist colonial subordination of black voices. Refers to Chaucer and the tradition of pentameter verse as constraint, and contrasts Chaucer&#039;s use of London-based English with the &quot;sheer naked energy and brutality&quot; of the language of &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276255">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Astronomy and Astrology of Geoffrey Chaucer: With Special Reference to the Frankleyn&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Aurelius&#039;s prayer to Apollo (FranT 5.1031ff.) and the clerk&#039;s astronomical calculations (1261ff.), clarifying details and terminology.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276254">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer: A Selection of His Works.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints (generally from Chaucer Society publications) selections from Chaucer&#039;s short poems (MercB, Ros, Sted, Buk, Adam, and Purse) and from CT (GP, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, NPT, ParPT, and Ret), with sidebar glosses and bottom-of-page explanatory notes. The Introduction includes a &quot;Brief Biography,&quot; discussion of Chaucer&#039;s social and literary milieu, the CT generally, and Chaucer&#039;s language, grammar, and versification, accompanied by a short bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Neglected Witness to Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Boece&quot; in a Medieval Devotional Commentary on &quot;The Consolation of Philosophy.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reinforces Mark Liddell&#039;s argument (&quot;The Academy,&quot; March, 1896, n.p.) that &quot;The Boke of Coumfort&quot; (MS Bodley Auct F.33.5) depended upon Chaucer&#039;s translation of Boethius in Bo, showing that it adds material from the Latin commentary tradition. Further demonstrates that in several respects &quot;Boke&quot; also &quot;gives to&quot; Bo a distinctly &quot;devotional character.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276252">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Preamble and Tale of the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits the GP portrait of the Wife of Bath, WBP (with excisions and interspersed summaries), WBT, and a portion of FrP, with bottom-of-page textual notes, and end-of-text explanatory notes and glossary. The Introduction addresses the base-text Ellesmere manuscript (El), linguistic and metrical issues, order and placement of the WB materials in the CT, characterization and tale-teller relations, major themes, and sources, with sections on Chaucer&#039;s Life and Times, his works, and a brief bibliography. Includes facsimiles of the WB portrait from El, with commentary, and a portion of f. 75 (WBP 575-99).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276251">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Chaucer no Yasashisa to Nagusame no Shudai.&quot; [Chaucer and the Theme of Tenderness and Consolation].]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses occurrences of the diction and sentiment of tenderness, pity, and consolation in Chaucer&#039;s works (GP Prioress, BD, TC), linking them with Bothius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy.&quot; In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276250">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale. Together with the Version Printed in the 1868-79 Edition of the Ellesmere Manuscript.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Limited art edition (200 copies printed) of MerPT, translated by Nevill Coghill (1960), illustrated by Derek Cousins, and designed by Thomas Simmonds. Coghill&#039;s translation is interleaved for comparison with the text from the Ellesmere manuscript, with modified punctuation. Two cover illustrations (Merchant and Wife of Bath), with fourteen full-page illustrations of MerT and one of a group of pilgrims (black and white against single-color backgrounds), plus a medallion portrait of Chaucer as a frontispiece.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276249">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rewriting Old Age from Chaucer to Shakespeare: The Invention of English Senex Style.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers &quot;senex style&quot; as the a label for an particular network of themes of aging, related rhetorical commonplaces, and narrative poses in a range of late-medieval and early modern works, focusing on those where an &quot;I-persona that extols the wisdom, pains, and effects of personal age&quot; resists the putative disabilities of old age, sometimes obliquely, and engages with literary history and authority. Includes analysis of the Reeve, RvT, Chaucer&#039;s &quot;authorial pose,&quot; and various connections with Scog, Adam, Purse, and their occurrence in British Library MS Additional 22139.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276247">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Landscapes in Medieval British Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the &quot;textual landscapes and ecological details&quot; in various late-medieval British romances, including discussion of seaside and shipwreck in MLT and in Gower&#039;s analogous Tale of Constance &quot;as a simultaneously inviting and threatening space whose multifaceted nature as a geographical, political, and social boundary embodies the complex range of meanings embedded in the Middle English concept of &#039;play&#039;.&quot; Considers several other literary topographies, including discussion of how the &quot;agricultural&quot; landscape in &quot;The Tale of Gamelyn&quot; and other works reflects &quot;anxieties about the lack of human control&quot; resulting from civil war, plague, and the &quot;Little Ice Age.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276246">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hoi histories tou Kantermpery.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of CT into modern Greek.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276245">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Vintry Ward Death.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this murder mystery involves Chaucer as a young man investigating a case that involves his family and the wine trade in the Vintry Ward,]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Subject of Madness: Insanity, Individuals and Society in Late-Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores secular rather than religious implications of madness in works by Chaucer (MilT and SumT; madness and social class), John Gower (VC, Book I), Thomas Hoccleve (&quot;major works&quot;), and Margery Kempe (&quot;Book of Margery Kempe&quot;). ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276242">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Verba Vana: Empty Words in Ricardian London.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Volume 1 examines various concerns with vacuous, misleading, and/or oblique language in bureaucratic and literary texts produced in London during the reign of Richard II, including discussion of CkT, ManT, and SqT for the ways they depict anxieties about the reliability of communication, with attention to analogous works and those with similar themes. Volume 2 comprises texts and translations of bureaucratic works discussed in volume 1.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276241">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Literature, Logic and Mathematics in the Fourteenth Century.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores interrelations between literary and logical/mathematical texts in late-fourteenth century England, focusing on how &quot;sophismata&quot; (relatively standardized, imagistic, absurd logical puzzles) underlie late-medieval literary texts. Explains the role of &quot;sophismata&quot; in medieval logic, particularly issues of future contingency, and includes extended discussion of &quot;ars-metrick,&quot; insolubles, and &quot;buf&quot; in SumT; the logic of Thomas Bradwardine and Robert Holcot in NPT; and logic and determinism in TC, with attention to its reference to Ralph Strode. Also studies related concerns in Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; and in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; &quot;Pearl,&quot; and &quot;Patience.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276240">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;An ABC&quot; by Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates ABC into modern English verse, retaining Chaucer&#039;s original meter, stanza form, and rhyme scheme. Includes brief introductory description of the poem and a biographical eulogy for Professor John van der Westhuizen, to whom the translation is dedicated.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How to Read Both: The Logic of True Contradictions in Chaucer&#039;s World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that &quot;medieval thought was continually pushed toward true contradictions . . . despite [the] impossibility imposed by classical logic,&quot; citing Aristotle, Abelard, Jean Buridan, Aquinas, and modern thinkers such as Hegel and Graham Priest (who labeled true contradictions &quot;dialetheia&quot;). Argues that, as &quot;a lie of profound moral necessity,&quot; fiction is the &quot;prime tool&quot; for confronting true contradictions, exploring them in Arthurian works, &quot;Pearl,&quot; &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; the ending of TC, and the Pardoner&#039;s &quot;fundamental contradiction&quot; of simultaneously accepting and rejecting eternal judgment.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276238">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Land Tenure in The &quot;Tale of Gamelyn.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents an understanding of the rules of law, chivalry, and inheritance in &quot;The Tale of Gamelyn.&quot; Demonstrates how these rules account for its apparent narrative (and, by extension, aesthetic) inconsistencies by showing how a knowledge of inheritance laws and entailments reveals the possessions and actions of the brothers in the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276237">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Storm in the Garden: Literary Nature in &quot;The Floure and the Leafe.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the conventionality/unconventionality of plot, detail, and image in &quot;The Floure and the Leafe,&quot; arguing that its depiction of &quot;literary nature&quot; presents &quot;poetry as a shared and participatory tradition: a carefully maintained garden from which to gather the natural and literary resources that can ameliorate damage to both people and the environment.&quot; Focuses on the impact of the poem&#039;s &quot;weather event&quot; or storm, and comments on allusions<br />
to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276236">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poetics of the Rule: Form, Biopolitics, Lyric.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rethinks &quot;formalism with respect to biopolitics&quot; as articulated by Giorgio Agamben and describes &quot;premodern and modern concepts of form, life, and rule,&quot; arguing that Chaucer&#039;s Truth, Gent, Sted, and especially For explore &quot;the intersections between form and life by way of the concept of the rule&quot; and &quot;model . . . how poetry can articulate and indeed practice ethics.&quot; Asserts that &quot;these poems demonstrate that Chaucer construes both his Boethianism and his lyricism as biopolitical practices.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276235">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Voices of English Medieval Lyric: An Anthology of Poems ca. 1100–1530.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes 131 poems &quot;that illustrate the range and variety&quot; of Middle English lyrics. Includes none by Chaucer, but refers to his works recurrently to clarify themes and techniques, both in the Introduction and in discussions of individual lyrics and topics, all cited in<br />
the index.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Eye Beams and Boethian Sufficiency in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that TC &quot;dramatizes&quot; the relations among vision, imagination, reason, and intellect found in Bo, tracing the effects of the lovers&#039; &quot;faulty reasoning&quot; in failing to progress from sight-based earthly pleasure to eternal good, emphasized in Criseyde&#039;s use of the Boethian term &quot;suffisaunce&quot; (III.1309) to proclaim her love in the consummation scene.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Nations: Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, Troilus and Criseyde.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in TC Chaucer &quot;initiates&quot; a tradition of presenting the &quot;multiple significations&quot; of the story, while &quot;Henryson makes it Scottish and Shakespeare unintentionally reflects the unification of the two countries on a literary level.&quot; Together, their versions produce an &quot;intra-national literary hybridisation.&quot; Includes an abstract in Turkish and in English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mapping Human Virtue and the Ethics of Desire: The Ludic(rous) as Umpire.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of TC, arguing that the &quot;ironies and games&quot; in the poem &quot;show how closely amorous pursuits may tread to modern conceptions of rape&quot; and depict courtship as a &quot;zero sum game in which each winning move is a loss.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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