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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;O Hebraic People!&quot;: English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the extant Anglo-Hebrew authors, lost to Chaucer and his readers, which are, &quot;nevertheless, a productive memory for his current readers.&quot; Catalogues a range of authors and genres, showing the flowering of the Jewish literary environment in Angevin England. Special emphasis is given to Berekhiah Ha-Nakdan, a Hebrew grammarian of the twelfth or thirteenth century, and his &quot;Fox Fables.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Hazard of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the &quot;Oriental Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the framed narratives and their progression throughout the Mediterranean, emphasizing framed tales, especially in Italian, that &quot;present narration as a high-stakes wager that may save a population in peril.&quot; By examining this Italian tradition in relation to Chaucer&#039;s works, shows that this &quot;narrative environment . . . provides a context in which his own literary decisions may be better understood and appreciated.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions &quot;to what extent might late medieval Christian intellectual and historical engagements with Judaism be productive for readings of Chaucerian texts not only when Jews are directly represented but also in the absence of such explicit reference?&quot; Begins by cataloguing the explicit mentions of Jews and Judaism in CT before discussing how Judaism might be read in temporality, metaphysics, and spatiality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Anticlericalism,&quot; Inter-Clerical Polemic, and Theological Vernaculars.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reassesses &quot;anti-clericalism,&quot; reframing what has been &quot;a concept useful within very real limits&quot; as a kind of inter-clerical polemic, as most of these examples of so-called anti-clericalism are clerically authored. Treats MkT and PardT as examples of inter-clerical polemic. Includes discussion of SNT and Chaucer&#039;s fluency in &quot;theological vernacularizing.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books and Booklessness in Chaucer&#039;s England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reassesses D. S. Brewer&#039;s claim about the relative paucity of the book in the fourteenth century, suggesting instead that &quot;in Chaucer&#039;s time, new technologies and new social circumstances were making it easier, faster, and cheaper to produce and transmit written text.&quot; The chapter examines some of those technologies and the books they produced.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Introduction: Placing the Past.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that every handbook or guide to Chaucer is invested in time. Demonstrates how the essays in this volume bring together noted Chaucerians alongside experts in other fields. Provides an overview of previous handbooks and guides to Chaucer, and contends that this volume reflects advances in Middle English studies, in particular, from queer studies and the history of religion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Gaufred, Deere, Maister Soverain&quot;: Chaucer and Rhetoric.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on Chaucer&#039;s rhetoric and presents a chapter targeted at students, with an &quot;aim to persuade the student of the richness and literary fertility of Chaucer&#039;s rhetorical culture.&quot; Offers background of contemporary scholarship on Chaucer and rhetoric, before tracing Chaucer&#039;s own rhetorical background.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in &quot;The Kingis Quair&quot; and &quot;The Testament of Cresseid.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;The Kingis Quair&quot; and &quot;The Testament of Cresseid,&quot; the &#039;two Scottish works that respond most fully&#039; to Chaucer&#039;s corpus, demonstrating how these poems rework Chaucerian verse and its framings for new and possibly subversive ends. Compares the allusive nature of &quot;Quair&quot;&#039;s engagement to Chaucerian conventions and mediation with the openly responsive nature of Henryson&#039;s reframing.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Logic and Mathematics: The Oxford Calculators.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the work and influence of the &quot;Oxford Calculators&quot; (William Heytesbury, Thomas Bradwardine, Walter Burley, Richard Kilvington, Roger and Richard Swineshead, and John Dumbleton), demonstrating how Chaucer &quot;might have picked up some of their ideas.&quot; Discusses theological and logical issues of HF and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Historians on John Gower.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Consists of fourteen essays and a calendar of life records by various authors, clarifying Gower&#039;s life and works in relation to the &quot;intellectual culture of the social, religious, and political controversies of his day.&quot; No single essay focuses on Chaucer, but the index cites him numerous times, often referencing comparisons between the two poets (along with Langland), most often having to do<br />
with estates satire.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maps out Dante&#039;s depiction of the infernal city and traces the &quot;infernal mode of representation of urban experience,&quot; by suggesting that Dante describes the city<br />
with an &quot;urban variation on the vertical cosmos of the Last Judgment.&quot; Documents the influence of this depiction of the infernal city on Boccaccio, Chaucer, François Villon, and Christine de Pizan.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the &quot;very novelty of Gower&#039;s claim to be a nationally significant, elite, literary author by examining specific articulations of this claim.&quot; Examining the implications of such a claim, McCabe argues for Gower&#039;s influence on English poetry through Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on Chaucer&#039;s own poetic mode in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Petrarch: &quot;enlumyned ben they.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the connections between Petrarch and Dante for Chaucer, while simultaneously showing the depth of Petrarch&#039;s influence on Chaucer&#039;s verse. Discusses fame and Petrarch in ClT, MkT, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the &quot;the rise and coalescence of trespass law, both as a theory of legal relationality and a practice of litigation.&quot; Traces the effect of trespass law on other forms of English law and demonstrates the effect of this law on poetry. Emphasizes TC and its relationship to Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato,&quot; highlighting how the former can be viewed through the evolution of English law.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medicine and Science in Chaucer&#039;s Day.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the influence of Dominican friar Henry Daniel, and his efforts, along with other English scientists, &quot;to appropriate into their language the scientific learning available in Latin, and to lay the foundations for future development.&quot; Demonstrates how Daniel&#039;s appropriation of Latin scientific language applies to Chaucer&#039;s own verse.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boccaccio&#039;s Early Romances.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats Boccaccio&#039;s romances, concentrating on &quot;Filostrato&quot; and &quot;Teseida,&quot; &quot;as if they were intralingual translations,&#039; by analyzing the collusion and contravention of the narratives&#039; aims by their own prologues. These prologues, apparently unknown or ignored by Chaucer, &quot;nevertheless produced poems that are [Walter] Benjamin-like translations of them.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces connections between Ovid and Chaucer and asserts that &quot;Chaucer emerges not simply as a conveyor of or apprentice to Ovid, but as a &#039;collaborator&#039; in an Ovidian poetic, one who necessarily and wilfully transforms Ovid&#039;s &#039;book&#039; into his own.&quot; In the sections that follow an introduction of Chaucerian and Ovidian resonances, makes a case for viewing Chaucer as Ovid&#039;s &quot;dynamic partner and active contributor to Ovidian intertextuality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dante and the Author of the &quot;Decameron.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues &quot;that far from being occasional, accidental, or haphazard, Boccaccio&#039;s engagement with Dante structures the authorial interventions in the frame of the &quot;&#039;Decameron/.&quot; Traces Boccaccio&#039;s use of Dante to demonstrate how Chaucer uses Boccaccio in similar ways.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys some of the sources of and connections among the various texts that predate Chaucer and that describe Troy and its fall. Discusses a range of Chaucerian engagements with Troy, including BD and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lydgate&#039;s Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines connections between Chaucer and Lydgate, tracing &quot;some of the ways in which Lydgate received and (re)constructed Chaucer&#039;s poetry.&quot; Concentrating on &quot;The Mumming at Bishopswood,&quot; the &quot;Siege of Thebes,&quot; and the patronage between Lydgate and the Chaucer family, demonstrates how &quot;Lydgate&#039;s use of Chaucer finds new meanings for Chaucer&#039;s poetry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Historiography: Nicholas Trevet&#039;s Transnational History.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Nicholas Trevet&#039;s Anglo-Norman chronicle and discusses &quot;the ways in which Trevet&#039;s larger vision of history is reflected in Chaucer&#039;s writing.&quot; Catalogues the various models for history available to and used by Chaucer, including Geoffrey of Monmouth, Ranulf Higden, and Orosius, before moving on to &quot;moments of intensification in Chaucer that correspond to moments of intensification . . . in Trevet.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses the figure of Genius from Alan of Lille&#039;s &quot;De planctu Naturae&quot; to flesh out the role of the scribe for Chaucer and his works. Focuses on the role of the scribe not only in Chaucer&#039;s work and manuscripts, but also in contemporary scholarship, and claims that, similarly to Genius, &quot;these scribes function at times as a mirror or other self of the author whose work they produce.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[At Home and in the &quot;Counter-Hous&quot;: Chaucer&#039;s Polyglot Dwellings.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the way connections of polyglot London and England trace how &quot;London&#039;s polyglot character informs Chaucer&#039;s fictive portrayal of urban living&quot; in HF and ShT. Connects Chaucer&#039;s work at the customs house and his house in Aldgate with HF and highlights the &quot;shared urban contexts&quot; by mapping out the complex linguistic interplay in HF and ShT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275914">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a comprehensive, &quot;stereoscopic,&quot; and wide-ranging view of Chaucer&#039;s culture and connections in a collection of essays focusing on current work in Middle English studies. For twenty-nine individual essays by various authors, search for Oxford Handbook of Chaucer under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Travels for the Court]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Details the extant evidence for Chaucer&#039;s travel, both in England and abroad, noting that all known travel is for the court, if we define it as &quot;the various royal households with which Geoffrey Chaucer was associated.&quot; Explores countries and places Chaucer would have known from books and does not limit analysis to physical travel. Traces the complex relationship between travel and Chaucer&#039;s works, suggesting that there is no simple link between that travel and his writing.]]></dcterms:description>
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