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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Knight]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents a historical perspective on crusading in the Middle  Ages and provides historical details about the Knight&#039;s battle locations in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Five Guildsmen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer&#039;s creation of the five Guildsmen in GP. Stresses the &quot;complex phenomenon,&quot; historical background, and proliferation of medieval guilds and fraternities in the fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273121">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Chaucer: Literature, History, and Ideology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces a collection of essays and emphasizes how different social, historical, and ethical &quot;interpretative frameworks&quot; can deepen an understanding  of Chaucer&#039;s pilgrims in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Yeoman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains the role of the &quot;yeoman in medieval society,&quot; providing different interpretations for understanding the social significance of Chaucer&#039;s Yeoman.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer the Poet and Chaucer the Pilgrim]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the character of Chaucer the pilgrim in GP. Includes history of Chaucer&#039;s life at Aldgate, his work as controller of customs, and later years when he moved away from London.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273118">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ploughman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews the history of rural society in late fourteenth-century England, as well as stereotypes of medieval ploughmen.  Reinforces how the plagues affected labor issues and &quot;social relations within the third estate.&quot; Argues that Chaucer&#039;s Ploughman combines &quot;characteristics of the estates ideal and the model Christian.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273117">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Host]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers reasons why Chaucer uses a &quot;recognizable contemporary,&quot; Henry Bailly, or Bailif (he used both names), as a model for the Host  in CT. Provides biographical details on Henry Bailly, or Bailif, of Southwark; historical background of innkeeping in England during the Middle  Ages; and details about the historical Tabard Inn.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Historians on Chaucer: The &quot;General Prologue&quot; to the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interdisciplinary collection of essays by medieval historians showcasing how application of social, economic, political, religious, and historical frameworks illuminates interpretation of CT. Surveys current debates over social meaning of Chaucer&#039;s work.  Each chapter discusses one of Chaucer&#039;s pilgrims. For the twenty-six individual essays, search for Historians on Chaucer under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Approaches to Teaching Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Second edition of 1980 volume, &quot;Approaches to Teaching Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales,&#039;&quot; providing articles on pedagogical approaches to teaching CT and including updated section, &quot;The Canterbury Tales in the Digital Age.&quot; Sections offer strategies for teaching CT in a variety of classroom scenarios, applying critical theoretical approaches and using classroom technologies, electronic, and multimedia materials. Features thirty-six essays, including many essays from the first edition; summaries of reference and background materials; editions; translations; critical works; and ideas for teaching Chaucer&#039;s language.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273114">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Narration of the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: Themes and Variations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines various aspects of the narrations in CT, ranging from the use of tropes to the author&#039;s political position. In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric in the &quot;Canterbury Tales,&quot; &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot; and Other Works]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with conventional costume description and fabric reference in medieval genres, especially romances and fabliaux, and argues that Chaucer often reverses traditional patterns of audience expectation in which romances are decorated with costume rhetoric and fabliaux are unembellished with sartorial ornamentation in order to underscore a theme with his well-read audience. Concludes with consideration of lesser but still significant features of costume rhetoric such as color symbolism, figures of speech, and the inclusion of fabric terms. Special attention is paid to KnT, ClT, MilT, and Th.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Taverners of Ipswich: The Influence of His Paternal Ancestors upon some Portraits and upon His Descendants]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that as he grew older, Chaucer became disenchanted with the affectations of court life and with the mercantile life of his own father  and developed an interest in his paternal ancestors who had been provincial taverners in Ipswich in the county of Suffolk. This development  is reflected in the portrait gallery of the GP where Chaucer displays his aversion to affectation and his interest in provincial people.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Food and the Literary Imagination]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines production and reception of food in canonical literary works, including writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, and George Eliot. Chapter 3, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food,&quot; focuses on how issues of &quot;food security and anxieties of sustenance&quot; shape the actions and personalities of Chaucer&#039;s pilgrims. Also mentions RvT, NPT, and GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The World is Variable: Expressions du passage et de la précarité dans la littérature anglaise de la fin du Moyen Age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contains references to the expression of time and mutability in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273109">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Gower and the Limits of the Law]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In an analysis of Gower&#039;s legal associations, examines how Chaucer uses &quot;jurisprudential topoi&quot; in CT, particularly in SumT. Also  discusses law in FrT, PardT, and Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[F. J. Furnivall&#039;s Last Fling: The Wyclif Society and Anglo-German Scholarly Relations,1882-1922]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[F. J. Furnivall founded seven literary and publishing societies (including the Chaucer and New Shakespeare Societies). Furnivall  describes Wyclif  &quot;as the first translator of our Bible and THE FATHER OF ENGLISH  PROSE&quot; in an attempt &quot;to foist prose paternity onto Wyclif (in pleasing symmetry with Chaucer&#039;s fatherhood of English poetry, alleged by Matthew Arnold).&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the collision between eroticisms and anti-eroticisms in Chaucer&#039;s works in which the queer appears. When these two concepts circulate in Chaucer&#039;s stories, the characters must confront both their identity-formation and their becoming-queer within their  respective genre and normative expectations. Chaucer&#039;s characters find their erotic desires unsatisfied, which leads to a fuller sense of queer-selfhood and humanness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273106">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wide-ranging introduction to Chaucer&#039;s life and works for students and scholars. Includes philosophical, theoretical, and literary  connections that celebrate the canonical importance of Chaucer&#039;s authority.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of Jill Mann&#039;s previously published essays, edited with an introduction by Mark David Rasmussen. The Preface explains that the essays are organized around exploring the implications of key words as ways to understand human experience in medieval literature.  Focuses on Mann&#039;s contributions to Middle English studies.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273104">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dreams, Medicine, and Exploring the Western LiteraryTradition through Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Highlights prominent connections among dreams, medicine, and literature in Chaucer&#039;s poetry.  Argues that dreams and medicine are integral aspects of Chaucer&#039;s works and that the poet shows how they can be experienced through literature  to bring about social and individual  harmony.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273103">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Forests, Parks, and Groves]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rather than consider the forests and woods in Chaucer&#039;s work symbolically, offers an eco-materialist reading of Chaucer&#039;s work as Clerk  of the King and as forester of North Petherton. Argues that these positions inform Chaucer&#039;s settings and descriptions of woods and land-use in his literary works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[First Phases]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes brief commentary on the medieval use of &quot;incipits,&quot; with specific reference to TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses queer readings and the asynchrony of time within medieval tales in relation to &quot;amateur medievalists&quot; and scholars. Study includes discussion of temporality, queer historicism, and autobiographical anecdotes, providing a fresh way of thinking about scholarly approaches to medieval studies and medievalism.  Discusses relationship between &quot;past and present&quot; in comparing CT with1944 film &quot;A Canterbury Tale,&quot; written and directed by Michael Powell.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Thir they Byen Thralls . . .&#039; Chaucer&#039;s Boethian Poems and Usk&#039;s &#039;Testament of Love&#039;: Foundations of English Prison Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the titular writings as early examples of English prison writing, with an eye toward political implications of the texts and the establishment of a relationship between social status and &quot;carceral experience&quot; in these works. Includes discussion of Chaucer&#039;s legal expertise and many works of his works, with extended commentary on SNT and KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Envy and Ethics: &#039;Plesaunce Leefful&#039; in &quot;The Parson&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emphasizes an ironic view of Parson&#039;s &quot;exploration of &#039;lawful pleasure&#039;&quot; and contends that ParsT can be viewed as a &quot;psychological   experience of delight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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