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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: &quot;Worldly Cares&quot; at St. Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the works of Thomas Walsingham for their importance in the field of late fourteenth-century English &quot;public classical literature,&quot; helping to define this field by focusing on nuances in Walsingham&#039;s treatments of political events in classicized terms, imagery, and allusions, compared with treatments by contemporaneous writers, especially Chaucer. Includes discussion of Chaucer&#039;s Monk and his tale as an ironic commentary on Walsingham, revisions of previously published discussions of MLT and TC in relation to Walsingham&#039;s writing, explorations of the political vocabularies of Anglo-Latin and vernacular writings of the time, and a description of differences between &quot;classisizing&quot; literature and humanism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[By the Will of the King: Majestic and Political Rhetoric in Ricardian Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines CT and Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; as part of an imaginative reaction to the political circumstances following the Second Barons&#039; War, arriving at a new role in &quot;speaking to and for&quot; the Henrician community.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Faces in Gower and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that ClT, using &quot;distinctively Gowerian terms&quot; such as &quot;corage&quot; and &quot;visage,&quot; is Chaucer&#039;s response to Gower&#039;s perceived challenge at the conclusion of the &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; for Chaucer &quot;to drop his well-known political reticence and take a personal stand on the sorry state of English political affairs in the last decade of the fourteenth century.&quot; Perceives ClT as turning the table on Gower by pointing to Genius&#039;s advice in Book 7 of the &quot;Confessio&quot; for a king to &quot;shape his face so as to control what it expresses to others&quot; as &quot;inconsistent with Gower&#039;s commitment to plainness and transparency, both ethical and referential&quot; in the education of a king.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gower, Lydgate, and Incest.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;alone of the three &#039;fathers of English poesy [Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate],&#039; Gower openly grapples with an acute awareness of the cultural centrality of a concept that extends from a betrayal of love&#039;s intimacy to social, political, and even poetic, dysfunction.&quot; Concludes that &quot;Gower&#039;s exploration of incest posed a problem that Chaucer felt impelled to address, and that Lydgate felt impelled to try to solve.&quot; In exploring the divergences between Gower and Chaucer, regards Gower&#039;s examination of incest as &quot;fuller and more searching,&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s treatment--as addressed in MLH, MLT, and ClT--as falling on the side of &quot;dominant repression.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ends of Storytelling.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Finds &quot;ideas of mortality, the end of life, and the end of storytelling . . . closely linked&quot; in Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot; Argues that the work leads the narrator, the poet, and the audience to a conclusion in which all &quot;can share in his hope of joy on the other side of the apocalypse, the end of the world, the end of story.&quot; Reflects how this shared understanding and vision are presented in CT, especially in GP, KnT, ParsT, and Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Gower: Others and the Self.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects sixteen essays from the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society and divides into three groups: Part 1, &quot;Knowing the Self and Others&quot;; Part 2, &quot;The Essence of Strangers&quot;; Part 3, &quot;Social Ethics, Ethical Poetics.&quot; The collection contains numerous references to Chaucer and his works, some illustrating common threads between Gower and Chaucer, others pointing to differences between the two poets. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for John Gower: Others and the Self under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Gower Copies Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the ways in which Gower and Chaucer use their source material differently. Gower uses Ovid to emphasize morality while Chaucer uses Ovid to explore both the courtly and the romantic.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; and the Origin of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses connections between Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; and CT, with particular focus on ShT, MilT, and WBT. Presents a &quot;hermeneutic argument&quot; that explores areas including &quot;alchemy, domestic spaces, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics, manuscripts, and misogyny&quot; in works of Boccaccio and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Matter and Form in Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Aristotelian theories of matter, form, and substance interact with medieval poetics, particularly in such works as ManT, SqT, &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and those of Hoccleve and Metham.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ellesmere Dragon.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the two marginal dragons found in the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, arguing that, like dragons in bestiaries and iconography, they &quot;symbolize the marvelous,&quot; but in addition they also &quot;prompt readers to attend to the marvelous aspects of Chaucer&#039;s poem.&quot; Includes 4 color illus.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Not Diane: The Risk of Error in Chaucerian Classicism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores scribal errors in copying and comprehending details regarding classical characters and classical allusions in poetry, and how poets&#039; phrasing implies awareness of those risks and seeks to mitigate them. These problems in transmission reveal how classicism, which later became a monumental tradition, was a risky interaction in some of its earliest phases. These problems also suggest the risks of writing for scribal transmission in general.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Initial Position in the Middle English Verse Line.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Establishes that scribes are less likely than otherwise to introduce their own spellings of words that occur in initial position in verse lines, exploring why in psycholinguistic terms, and suggesting several implications for manuscript study. The discussion is based on data derived from ten manuscripts of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[(In)completeness in Middle English Literature: The Case of the &quot;Cook&#039;s Tale&quot; and the &quot;Tale of Gamelyn.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers literary completeness, its relations to philosophies of perfection, and &quot;the ways in which incompleteness is a special characteristic of Middle English literature,&quot; particularly in manuscript studies. Surveys kinds of incompleteness in CT, and focuses on scribal responses to the fragmentary CkT, suggesting that digital editions can &quot;equip readers to explore the constant elaboration, the polyvalent properties and voices of manuscript texts.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Compilational Reading: Richard Osbarn and Huntington Library MS HM 114.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;compositional choices&quot; made in the compilation of the texts included in San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, and maintains that TC (among others) was copied early and incorporated into this larger collection in response to a purchaser&#039;s request.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Codex Theory: Codicology and the Aesthetics of Reading in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the treatment of books as physical objects in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve, suggesting that this treatment may create a way of perceiving the text on the part of the reader.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Bibles: Late Medieval Biblicism and Compilational Form.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on how manuscript compilations, especially biblical materials, are evoked in CT. Argues that a strictly historical arpproach to this material is inadequate and examines how an author can use the material form of books for specific literary purposes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274604">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Vernacular Authorship and the Control of Manuscript Production.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;various degrees of control&quot; exerted by medieval vernacular poets over the production of their manuscripts, maintaining that evidence from the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts indicates Chaucer &quot;was clearly not moving expeditiously toward a complete, finished, and definitive version of his work.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on aspects of the cultural situations of the medieval book. Examines elements of bibliography, social context, linguistics, archeology, and conservation within a broader view of the theory and praxis of manuscript study. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Three Troublesome Lines in Chaucer&#039;s General Prologue: 11 (So priketh hem Nature), 176 (The space), 739 (Crist spak himself ful brode).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that line 11 is not parenthetical and that &quot;so&quot; is an adverb of degree, in &quot;They sleep all night with their eyes open, nature pricks them so in their hearts.&quot; In line 176, &quot;the space&quot; means &quot;in the meantime,&quot; and not the object of &quot;held.&quot; As for line 736, ample evidence from the Gospels, the noncanonical sayings, and some Psalms makes clear how much latitude Jesus allowed himself in his speech--and Chaucer&#039;s own similar latitude, &quot;sermo humilis&quot; in imitation of Christ, marks his art as Christian.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of essays on the production, reception, and editing of medieval English manuscripts. For an essay on Chaucer, search for Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts under Alternative Title]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining the Literary in Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates the category of &quot;the literary&quot; in medieval English texts, surveying prior attempts to define or describe the category and indicating their utility. Comments on a range of Chaucerian topics, including the &quot;cunningly self-authorizing discursive form&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s dream visions; the goals of the original Chaucer Society; Chaucer&#039;s translation of Petrarch&#039;s sonnet as Troilus&#039;s &quot;song&quot;; and the possibility that, for Chaucer, &quot;the idea of &#039;the literary&quot; is the &quot;problem and desire of possessing something earthly that is wholly valuable in itself, rather than merely referentially meaningful.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirteen essays by various authors consider new and traditional conceptualizations of medieval English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Imagining Medieval English under Alternative Title]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nature of Material Evidence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers how manuscript evidence informs our understanding of Middle English, addressing the value of autograph manuscripts and personal letters, the process of standardization, and the importance of sociolinguistics. Includes analysis of the habits of Chaucer scribes Geoffrey Spirleng and Adam Pinkhurst and maintains that, generally, when &quot;copying Chaucer, scribes tended to preserve older London forms associated with Chaucer&#039;s own usage.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Secretary &quot;a&quot; in Ellesmere&#039;s Latin Quotations.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the use of the minuscule &quot;a&quot; in the Latin quotations of the Ellesmere manuscript to support the argument that these annotations derive from the ways Chaucer imagines the form of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Joseph Holland&#039;s &quot;thoroughgoing renovation&quot; of the Chaucer manuscript he owned in the sixteenth century (now Cambridge University Library, MS Gg 4.27), detailing how he imitated the corpus and presentation found in Thomas Speght&#039;s 1598 edition of Chaucer&#039;s works, and exemplifying how transmission can affect &quot;the way medieval books are read and preserved&quot;--even though &quot;[m]ost traces of Holland&#039;s involvement have been removed&quot; in later restoration of Gg 4.27.]]></dcterms:description>
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