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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boethius, Chaucer, and &#039;The Kingis Quair&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads &quot;The Kingis Quair&quot; as a &quot;direct response&quot; to Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; and to TC and KnT, taking up their concerns with Fortune. &quot;Quair&quot; shares the concern with worldly love found in Chaucer&#039;s two poems, although it presents love as a means to transcend fortune without the world denying aloofness required in Boethius&#039;s treatise and echoed in Chaucer&#039;s poems.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boethius, Philosophy and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Marriage Group&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[With the exception of Dorigen, the women in the Marriage Group (WBPT, ClT, MerT, FranT) are similar to Boethius&#039;s character Philosophy: they assume authoritative roles, echo some of her sentiments, and sometimes recall her voice. Dorigen&#039;s behavior is more similar to that of the character Boethius in the Consolation of Philosophy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boethius, the Wife of Bath, and the Dialectic of Paradox]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the logic of paradox from its roots in Zeno through Boethius&#039;s Consolation to its uses in WBPT. Notes examples from Alain de Lille and Jean de Meun and discusses the Wife of Bath&#039;s uses of synthesis beyond contradiction and paradox.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bohemian Gower: &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; Queen Anne, and Machaut&#039;s Judgment Poems.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reiterates traditional discussions of similarities between LGW and John Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; develops recent arguments of the importance of Anne of Bohemia to both poems (emphasizing Gower&#039;s), and uses these connections and others to argue that the &quot;Confessio&quot;--like LGW--was powerfully influenced by Guillaume de Machaut&#039;s &quot;Jugement dou roi de Navarre.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bonds in a Selection of Middle English Breton Lays.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the notion of commitment in connection with the contradictory and untenable verbal pledges in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bonnes manières et dessous de table: &#039;The Boke of Nurture&#039; de John Russell]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the relationship between narration and food in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Niebrzydowski documents &quot;significant attention,&quot; positive and negative, paid to wives and wifehood in the literature and architecture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. The volume is structured to &quot;follow the life cycle of a wife,&quot; from the canon law of eligibility to topics such as marital contracts, sex education, childbirth and motherhood, and depictions of life with a husband--drawing on art, literature, and history for examples of the freedoms and constraints of female marital life. The wide variety of texts (conduct literature, homilies, historical records, cycle plays, the Book of Margery Kempe, and more) indicates how wifehood was &quot;constructed by patriarchal textual discourses.&quot; Includes sustained discussions of ClT, MerT, MLT, and especially WBPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267419">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Book and Verse : A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature. Illinois Medieval Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bibliographical guide to Middle English biblical literature, including manuscript and publication information, descriptions of the works, and identification of the biblical sources, covering some 110 individual works or sets of related works. Includes indexes of biblical citations and biblical names and topics, as well as a general index (eighteen Chaucer references). Four introductory chapters consider the medieval &quot;idea&quot; of the Bible, its official status and resistance to this status, the English vernacular, and literary concerns of genre, audience, and self-representation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261318">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fifteen original essays on such topics as early book design, book purchasing and ownership, Caxton, and production of various kinds of books.  Includes C. Paul Christianson on &quot;Evidence for the Study of London&#039;s Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade,&quot; (pp. 87-108), and &quot;The Manuscripts of the Major English Poetic Texts,&quot; by A. S. G. Edwards and Pearsall, with a statistical appendix (pp. 257-78).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267650">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bookburning in Chaucer and Austen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies WBP as the inspiration for Harriet Byron&#039;s burning of a prayer book in the second act of Jane Austen&#039;s play, &quot;Sir Charles Grandison,&quot; noting in both works the importance of hyperbole, the manipulation of language, and ironic commentary on masculine and literary authority.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focusing on perspectives evident in Chaucer&#039;s Adam (and the career of Adam Pinkhurst) and &quot;Mum and the Sothsegger,&quot; Gillespie explores the importance of &quot;the book&quot; as a technology that spans the oral-print divide.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books and Authority]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Yeager summarizes Chaucer&#039;s education and career for the purpose of identifying the books, languages, and classical and vernacular literatures with which Chaucer was clearly acquainted. Discusses Chaucer&#039;s strategies for keeping literary authority at &quot;stave&#039;s length&quot; through a narrative persona and the dream vision, and his techniques for &quot;asserting a claim upon it&quot; in his most mature works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275933">
    <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[Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy&#039;s Literary Influences.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Locates a quotation from PardT in Cormac McCarthy&#039;s notes for his novel &quot;Blood Meridian&quot;; links McCarthy&#039;s penchant for &quot;the stories-within-stories motif&quot; to Chaucer; and identifies echoes of PardT in the old Mennonite episode of &quot;Blood Meridian&quot; and in Llewellyn Moss&#039;s death scene in &quot;No Country for Old Men.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269199">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the cultural, literary, and codicological contexts for English late medieval works of revealed writing - apocalyptic, visionary, mystical, prophetic, etc. - considering the reception of Continental works in England and works composed in English. Clarifies how works by Joachim of Fiore, William de St. Amour, Peter Olivi, William of Ockham, the &quot;Opus arduum,&quot; and others are related to and separate from Wyclifitte writings, concentrating on their status as heretical texts and their influences on Middle English literature: Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and several of Chaucer&#039;s works. Reads Rom (part C) in light of orthodoxy and the Roman de la Rose; HF as a &quot;teasing satire of the revelatory&quot; (especially Langland&#039;s Piers); ClT and NPT on free will and God&#039;s power; and Ret as a conservative withdrawal of humanist fiction. Contains a useful &quot;Chronology&quot; of non-Wycliffite cases of heresy and related events (xix-lii), plus three related appendices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277180">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Borderlands Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;imperfect analogies between Chaucerian poetics and border theory/pedagogy,&quot; reporting on classroom experiences and discussing what Chaucer can teach us about &quot;inhabiting borderlands.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Borders and the Global North Atlantic: Chaucer, Pilgrimage, and Crusade.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in conceptualizing the global North Atlantic, and argues that in several places in CT (e.g., GP description of Knight, MLT, Pedro in MkT) Chaucer uses paradigms that are similar to those of &quot;settler colonialism so that England is at the top of a racialized, Christian, European hierarchy in which Muslims are expelled.&quot; Encourages alternative views.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270500">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boring Virtue and Interesting Vice: The Literary Conflict Between Morality and Vitality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sketches a range of evaluative criteria (moral, social, hedonistic, materialistic, and artistic) to explore how in literature--and in the GP in particular--&quot;moral judgements are largely subverted by artistic judgements,&quot; in part the result of the reader&#039;s &quot;escape from real life.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Borrowed Armor/Free Grace: The Quest for Authority in &#039;The Faerie Queene 1&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Tale of Sir Thopas&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads two sections of Edmund Spenser&#039;s &quot;Faerie Queene&quot; (the opening lines and Arthur&#039;s dream, 1.9) as examples of inscripted biographical details and the poetic anxiety of the work. Considers Spenser&#039;s adaptations of PF and, especially, Thop, reading Thop (and to an extent Mel) as a biographical and libidinal projection of Chaucer&#039;s own anxieties about social and poetic success.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Both Fixed and Free: Language and Destiny in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039; and &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the &quot;ambiguous relationship between &#039;aventure&#039; and &#039;tydynges&#039;&quot; mentioned in HF, or one of Chaucer&#039;s most frequent themes:  Fortune (or Providence) versus necessity, divine prescience, and free will, as seen in KnT and TC.  Discusses the &quot;bodily ear&quot; and the &quot;circumscription of the Word&quot; in TC, KnT, MilT; language and Fortune in TC, KnT; the failure of Palamon and Arcite to read signs and the literal answers to prayers in KnT; Troilus and the fate of fiction in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Both the Edge and the Centre: The Politics of Understanding Music in Middle English Poetry--An Interdisciplinary Study.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the philosophical ramifications of understanding music, particularly as evidenced in BD, HF, PF, and ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bottom-Kissing and the Fragility of Status in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on a study of status in MilT and traces the positioning of Nicholas and Alisoun and their displays of their buttocks in the window toward Absolon. Fleshing out the context and history of bottom-kissing as well as the averting of demons by open displays of the buttocks and/or genitals, maps out how Absolon and Nicholas highlight the fragility of status in the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263367">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bottom&#039;s Dream and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Documents an additional Chaucerian allusion in &quot;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream.&quot;  Like the dreamer in BD, Shakespeare&#039;s Bottom says his dream cannot be interpreted; it can only be written down.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bovine (E)Sc(h)atology: Papal &#039;Bulles Assoiling&#039; in &#039;The Pardoner&#039;s Prologue and Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The verb &quot;assoillen&quot; and the noun &quot;bulle,&quot; two terms that cluster in the prologue and epilogue to PardT, engage in wordplay with &quot;soilen&quot; and &quot;boles&quot; respectively.  The Pardoner, who implicity claims to be God, attempts to &quot;soilen&quot; the pilgrims morally and spiritually.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boy Crucifixion, Sainthood, and the Puzzling Case of Harold of Gloucester.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that the clergeon in PrT invokes Hugh of Lincoln, one of a number of Christian boys purportedly crucified by Jews in mockery of Christ&#039;s Passion. Addresses why the victims in such stories are boys, not adults as Jesus was when he was crucified, and argues that peculiarities in Harold of Gloucester&#039;s story suggest that the boy victim arises primarily from Christian interpretation of Exodus 12:3–9, the Passover narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
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