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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Anima carnis in sanguine est&quot;: Blood, Life, and &quot;The King of Tars.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connects the shapeless mass of flesh, which Christian baptism miraculously reforms into a baby in the Middle English romance &quot;The King of Tars,&quot; with a bloodless mass described by Chaucer&#039;s contemporary Henry Daniel as an &quot;elvysch cake.&quot; Claims that &quot;elvysch&quot; can be interpreted as strange, transformational, and excessive, in a &quot;Chaucerian sense,&quot; and the concept may be echoed in the rumor of a &quot;fiendish&quot; birth in MLT and of Saracen &quot;bloodlessness&quot; in SNT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gower before Chaucer: Narrative and Ethics in &quot;The Tale of Tereus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comparative essay that includes commentary on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;volatile response&quot; to the story of Philomela in his LGW, suggesting that Chaucer&#039;s account may reflect anxiety about Gower&#039;s influence.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Hag Transformed: &quot;The Tale of Florent,&quot; Ethical Choice, and Female Desire in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts Gower&#039;s tale of Florent with WBT and &quot;The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,&quot; arguing that Gower and Chaucer &quot;grapple with ethical circumstances in human relationships&quot; (matters of right conduct and governance, respectively) while the &quot;Wedding&quot; exposes the &quot;fragility of courtly virtues.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Social Class in the Classroom: Gower&#039;s Estates Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts the uses of estates literature in works by Gower, Chaucer, and William Langland, explaining the didacticism of Gower, Chaucer&#039;s &quot;playful &#039;show--don&#039;t tell&#039;&quot; in GP, and Langland&#039;s allusive allegorizing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274021">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teaching Gower&#039;s Reception: A Poet for All Ages,]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys Gower&#039;s reception among fellow poets and critics, including comments on the effect of Chaucer upon Gower&#039;s reputation and the value of comparing their versions of individual stories.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274020">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-five pedagogical essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274019">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes and discusses two analogues to the pear tree episode in MerT (and in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot;), one in Persian by Rumi in his &quot;Mathnavī,&quot; and one in Arabic by Ibn al-Jawzi in his &quot;Kitāb al-adhkiyā&#039;.&quot; Also describes and discusses two analogues to MLT, one in Persian by Farid al-Din Attar in his &quot;Elahi-Nameh&quot; (&quot;Ilāhī-nāmā&quot;) and an earlier one in Arabic by al-Kulaynī in the &quot;Kitāb al-kāfī.&quot; Throughout, includes attention to other source-and-analogue information that relates to the episodes, and includes as appendices transliterations and English translations of the Persian and Arabic materials, with the exception of Attar&#039;s Chaste Maiden account.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274018">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poetic Voices of John Gower: Politics and Personae in the &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Gower&#039;s intention in &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; is both &quot;poetic, as well as political.&quot; Emphasizes how Chaucer and Gower are concerned with &quot;authority and experience&quot; in their poems. Discusses WBT in relation to Gower&#039;s &quot;Tale of Florent.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274017">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Englishing&quot; Horace: The Influence of the Horatian Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Horatian influence on works ranging from the Exeter Book to Langland, Gower, and Fragments VIII and IX of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Silent Italy.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a &quot;new description of Chaucer&#039;s interaction with Italian poetry,&quot; focusing on how he avoids borrowing several of its most innovative features: the &quot;presence of a beatific lady,&quot; the tendency to elevate the poet&#039;s poetry to high authority, and the defense of poetry as &quot;truth beneath a pleasing veil of fiction that concomitantly makes theology the poetry of God.&quot; Contends that Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio is unique in his time, and suggests that the lack of the above Italianate features defines his own poetics.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274015">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s French Sources--Literary and Codicological Play and the Author&#039;s Persona.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Chaucer&#039;s engagement with his French contemporaries (e.g., Machaut, Froissart, Deschamps), suggesting that Chaucer may have adapted elements from those writers such as voice and form in establishing his own poetic authority.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274014">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining the Mass of Death in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&quot;: A Critique of Medieval Eucharistic Practices.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the intersection of death, money, and elements of the Catholic mass in PardT. In the wake of the plague, the mass became closely associated with death because of the spreading practice of saying masses for the souls of the dead. The rioters&#039; parodic performance of the mass, including partaking of poisoned (thus substantially altered) wine, &quot;attempts to subvert as it mimics&quot; the ritual of the Eucharist.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274013">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effects of the Black Death: The Plague in Fourteenth-Century Religion, Literature, and Art.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer&#039;s awareness of the plague and reference to it in his works, especially PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274012">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Bonum est mortis meditari&quot;: Meanings and Functions of the Medieval Double Macabre Portrait.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Refers to the death-bearing rioters in PardT as an example of the theme, found in medieval art, of &quot;death as living within&quot; the body.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274011">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects essays that focus on the theme of death from the later heroic era to the eighteenth century. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that Chaucer contributes to the debate concerning the translation of the Bible into English through his exploitation of the Old Testament in MLT and WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274009">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Italy: Contexts and/of Sources.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys studies of Chaucer&#039;s uses of Dante and Boccaccio as sources, focusing on work done since 1980 and &quot;highlighting new and forthcoming work.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274008">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Introduction to &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents comprehensive overview of all three iterations of Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot; Provides discussion of differences between Langland&#039;s characters and Chaucer&#039;s depictions of social characters in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274007">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[De Chaucer à Cranach: vers une nouvelle image poétique et picturale de Lucrèce?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines echoes, resemblances, and differences between the evocations of Lucretia in LGW, BD, and CT, and German painter Lucas Cranach&#039;s portrait (1513) of the Roman paragon of wifely virtue. References to Chaucer&#039;s poems, its ancient sources, and the sensuous pictorial representation reveal how the image of Lucretia evolved from the mythic, classic icon to a more realistic, erotic figure. Argues that she morphed, through the prism of male imagination, from an ancient archetype of near saintly perfection, to a prototype of the new woman in the Renaissance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Disconsolations of Philosophy: Boethius, Agency, and Literary Form in Late Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Chaucer engages the Boethian tradition in TC and HF, only to challenge (and ultimately reject) that tradition&#039;s ideas of self-regulation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; and the End of Constantinian Christianity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides close reading and interpretation of &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and observes how Chaucer and Langland often share similar political and religious views of medieval society. Refers to SumT, WBPT, GP, KnT, ParsT, RvT, and PF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274004">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Names in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the name &quot;Pertelote&quot; in NPT as &quot;beautiful paramour&quot; and &quot;little beauty,&quot; and &quot;Colle,&quot; &quot;Talbot,&quot; and &quot;Gerland&quot; as dog-names. Includes recurrent concern with levels of style in Chaucer&#039;s naming and on names that link aspects of CT, e.g., &quot;Talbot&quot; with &quot;Tabard.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prefix y-: Grammatical Marker or Meaningless Appendage? A Contrastive Analysis of Selected Manuscripts of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the occurrences of the preverbal y- prefix in seven manuscripts of CT, attending to grammatical, syntactic, and metrical considerations. Concludes that, although the construction is used to form passive constructions clearly, the data also indicate that scribes used it to &quot;create an additional syllable or clarify complex phrase structure.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Use and Development of Middle English: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge 2008.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fourteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and an index. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Use and Development of Middle English under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274001">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Shirley&#039;s Early Bureaucratic Career.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Establishes that scribe John Shirley lived in Westminster/London early in his career (in the 1390s) and therefore may have been familiar with Chaucer at the time, lending credibility to Shirley&#039;s opinions about Chaucer&#039;s works and their dates of composition.]]></dcterms:description>
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