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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the History of Rome]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval understandings of Rome and its history as background to understanding Chaucer&#039;s allusions to Rome and Romans, especially his treatments of them in PhyT, SNT, the Caesar and Nero accounts in MkT, and the Lucrece legend of LGW. Concludes with a comparison of Chaucer&#039;s depictions with Gower&#039;s.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Holy Cross of Bromholm.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies the appropriateness of Symkin&#039;s wife swearing by the &quot;croys of Bromeholm&quot; (RvT 1. 4286), adducing Roger of Wendover&#039;s &quot;Flores Historiarum&quot; and, possibly, the clerical status of the wife&#039;s father.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Horse.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the &quot;equestrian vocabulary&quot; used by Chaucer, with particular attention to GP, but including his other references to horses, their tackle, colors, names, conditions, movements, etc., clarifying the denotations of the terminology. Includes b&amp;w reproductions of thirteen of the pilgrim-portraits from the Ellesmere manuscript, interleaved and unpaginated, with commentary on these portraits in an Appendix.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the House of Fame]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Historical detective novel, with Chaucer as the investigator of a string of murders while on a diplomatic mission to France in 1370.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Idea of a Poet]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Postulates a crucial division in Chaucer&#039;s poetic career, separated by a &quot;courteous but thoughtful and decisive rejection of &#039;fine amour&#039;,&quot; reflected in PF, TC, and LGWP. Acknowledges the impact of French and Italian models on Chaucer&#039;s changing idea of himself as a poet, suggests that he may have been affected by Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; and its social concerns, and cautiously posits that Machaut&#039;s &quot;Le Voir Dit&quot; may have influenced Chaucer&#039;s rejection of his earlier role as a promulgator of courtly conventions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Idea of the Theatrical Performance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines theatricality in Chaucer&#039;s work evidenced in spatial representations, the specialized behavior of performers, and the presence of an audience in PrT, SNT, and MilT.  Some attention to TC, HF, MkT, SqT, and FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Idols of the Market]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Despite David Wallace&#039;s assertion that London is &quot;absent&quot; in Chaucer, and D. W. Robertson&#039;s contention that medieval Londoners were content within &quot;an hierarchical classless society,&quot; CT depicts London as an &quot;underworld,&quot; where unscrupulous characters tell unreliable tales.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Chaucer&#039;s London is, in fact, a mercantile place that &quot;mirrors in a perverse image the order of the ideal.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Juxtaposes &quot;visual materials and their literary analogues&quot; to illuminate larger images created by narrative action.  Seven chapters treat medieval hypotheses of audience and image; Chaucerian aesthetics of the image in the poem; KnT, the prison-garden, and the tournament amphitheater; nature, youth, and Noah&#039;s Flood in MilT; Death-as-Tapster and horse unbridled in RvP, RvT; CkT and MLH as crossing the Hengwrt-Ellesmere gap; and the rudderless ship and the sea in MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Imagery of Woe: The Blind Briton and the Veiled Child in the &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presented differently than in Trevet, Chaucer&#039;s scenes of the blind Briton and the blindfolded Maurice in MLT emphasize the helplessness of humankind and the help of God.  The emphasis is consistent with Innocent III&#039;s &quot;De miseria condicionis humane&quot; and with the characterization of Custance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[HF, a turning point in Chaucer&#039;s career and in English literary culture, reflects attitudes toward fame and glory from Homer to the Scholastics to writers of the Italian &quot;trecento.&quot;  The poem deals with issues of fame, poetry, and linguistic theory and explores archetypal imagery.  HF is probably &quot;in-finite&quot; rather than unfinished.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Imagination]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines through the eyes of modern poets the ability of medieval imagination &quot;to bridge gaps gracefully between the poets and the world around them&quot;--addressing &quot;all varieties of experience, aspiration, and frustration,&quot; often through fresh and vivid imagery of springtime.  Peck reviews the difficult circumstances of Chaucer&#039;s life at the time he was involved in brilliant exercises of the imagination in LGW, BD, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Interpretation of Medieval Narrative: An Essay on the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys criticism of ClT in order to show the &quot;inadequacy&quot; of this criticism and reads the Tale as a &quot;typological allegory&quot; even though it goes steps beyond its sources in depicting the plot realistically.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Invention of English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sociohistorical commentary on the rise of prestige markers in English writing and speech, focusing on accent as a marker in Chaucer&#039;s time and soon after, in particular the pronunciation of final -e, the Great Vowel Shift, and northern dialect features of RvT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Italian Trecento]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Essays on Anglo-Italian relationships and Chaucer&#039;s borrowings.  For individual essays,  of this volume.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Italian Trecento: A Bibliography]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[On Chaucer&#039;s Italian sources.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Italians]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Boitani surveys Chaucer&#039;s &quot;ongoing dialogue&quot; with Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, discussing how Chaucer&#039;s borrowings reflect his &quot;prodigious memory and striking associative and intertextual skill.&quot; Draws examples from PF, TC, KnT and ClT and comments on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century legacies of Italian influence on English literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Jews]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cites evidence from medieval theology, sermon literature, etc., to show fourteenth-century religious tolerance of Jews and the belief that they could gain salvation.  PrT is Chaucer&#039;s ironic comment on the Prioress, religious prejudice, and common miracle lore.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in Richard Rex, &quot;The Sins of Madame Eglentyne and Other Essays on Chaucer&quot; (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fourteen essays by various authors who study Jews as an absent presence in medieval England, considering fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts for their literary, historical, theological, and visual representations of Jews. Some essays reprinted. For eight new essays that pertain to Chaucer directly, search by the title of this volume. The volume includes an introduction, select bibliography, and brief index.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Just Society: Conceptions of Natural Law and the Nobility in the &#039;Parliament of Fowls&#039;, the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale,&#039; and the Portraits of the Miller and Reeve]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads PF in light of its sources as an allegory of aristocratic responsibility for maintaining natural law and a just society; KnT as an exploration of lawlessness set against the background of Status&#039;s &quot;Thebaid,&quot; focusing on the tournament; and the GP descriptions of the Miller and Reeve as satiric &quot;caricatures of erring nobility.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Language of Contemporary Preaching]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The influence of sermon language and structure has been recognized in certain of Chaucer&#039;s characterizations.  However, his reliance on contemporary preaching obviously goes beyond such loose imitation to the borrowing of story plots, images, and technical terms of fourteenth-century sermon literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Language of London]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[CYT is Chaucer&#039;s London tale par excellence; its &quot;craft sounds&quot; evoke both what the city is and what it is not.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Late Medieval World]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Chaucer&#039;s works for the ways they reflect the &quot;conflicting realities he confronted in his world.&quot;  An opening section on &quot;The Poet and His World&quot; introduces the &quot;double vision&quot; of the intellectual world Chaucer inherited and describes his balanced &quot;conception of his task as a poet.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Subsequent sections introduce social and historical backgrounds   to the following topics and then examine how the subtopics are reflected in     Chaucer&#039;s works:  Religion (hierarchy and heresy, quest for perfection, and     popular religion), Class Commerce (chivalry, social unrest and economy), and    Gender and Sexuality (views of women, love, and marriage).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bisson focuses on CT and TC but mentions all of Chaucer&#039;s major works, concluding that CT is especially marked by the carnivalesque tensions between high and low, sacred and profane, and serious and comic characteristics of Chaucer&#039;s age.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Latin Classics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies various difficulties in determining &quot;how much classical Latin literature&quot; Chaucer knew and details his relative familiarity with works by Cicero, Livy, Cato, Lucan, Statius, Claudian, Virgil, and Ovid. Chaucer was little influenced by moralized versions, but his occasional errors, samples of his &quot;weak poetry,&quot; and his uses of translational aids indicate that he was a middling Latinist. Comments on many works and includes sustained consideration of Chaucer&#039;s adaptations of Ovid in the Dido and Aeneas story of LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Latin Muses]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the sources of Chaucer&#039;s knowledge of the muses, considering especially the meaning of his reference to Clio in TC 1 and to Calliope in TC 3.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Law]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Chaucer&#039;s legal background, his connection with English canon law of agreements, the secular law of agreements, and medieval English criminal law and procedure. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the appeal of felony in WBT and MLT; bill procedure in ABC, Pity, ParsT, and PhyT; treason and litigation in TC; commercial instruments in ShT; covenant for debt in FranT and WBT; dower and conveyance of property in MerT; agreement in GP; &quot;ernest&quot; in FrT; homage and fealty in BD and TC; &quot;hue and cry&quot; in MilT, NPT, and WBT; intention in FranT and FrT; loans in ShT; mainprise in Mel and WBT;;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  marriage agreements in FranT and MerT; marriage debt in MerT, ShT, and WBP; ordeal in TC; pledge of faith in FranT, FrT, KnT, SumT, WBT, and TC; rape in RvT and WBT; releases in FranT; tally in ShT; treason in LGW, MLT, MerT, ParsT, BD, PF, Mel, and TC; and murder in PrT, NPT, PardT, and ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
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