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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Italy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the cultural, social, economic, religious, and literary aspects of Italy in Chaucer&#039;s day.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277359">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Italy.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interpretive biography and critical exploration of Chaucer&#039;s professional, diplomatic, and literary engagements with Italy, Italians, and Italian culture, seeking to &quot;follow in Chaucer&#039;s footsteps--to Milan, Genoa, Florence, Pavia, and beyond--and describe what he would have seen and experienced.&quot; Explores Chaucer&#039;s literary relations with Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sercambi, and others up to Pier Paolo Pasolini, addressing Italian Chaucer scholarship, and emphasizing the range and variety of Italian topics in Chaucer&#039;s life and works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275543">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Jailer&#039;s Daughter: Character and Source in &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how the Jailer&#039;s Daughter of Shakespeare and Fletcher&#039;s play, a character not found in KnT, reflects a complex form of influence derived not only from KnT, but from MilT and RvT as well. Considers water imagery and liquidity, and &quot;madness, secular village life, comic cruelty, and erotic, feminine desire&quot; as manifestations of how the Daughter &quot;quits&quot; the play, as Chaucer&#039;s fabliaux quit his romance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s January and May: Counterparts in Claudian]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Glosses in Class Alpha mss of Claudian&#039;s &quot;De Raptu Proserpinae,&quot; which Chaucer could have used at school, explain his description of Pluto and Proserpina as Fairies, his &quot;many a lady&quot; following Proserpina, the terrifying tone of Pluto&#039;s &quot;grisely carte,&quot; the trickery practised by the godes, the offense January gave to Nature, and the January/May, Pluto/Proserpina contrasts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268534">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Jobs]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s occupations--domestic servant, customs agent, justice of the peace, and clerk of the King&#039;s Works--shaped his literature, and his &quot;servility&quot; enabled him to become the &quot;father&quot; of English poetry. His biography and his works alike reveal &quot;submersion in the interests of power,&quot; so that the early complaints mythologize the &quot;ideal of the aristocratic good life&quot;; TC is an &quot;apology for the good life of erotic preoccupation&quot;; and CT gives voice to some dissidence, only to police and suppress it. Admirers and imitators of Chaucer emulated his servility and, in doing so, shaped his critical legacy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Joke Against the Egle: The House of Fame, 1011-1017]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues for the adoption of &quot;thy selven&quot; instead of &quot;they shynen&quot; (line 1015) as the &quot;lectio difficilior: and as the reading supported by Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16, the copy-text for most editions of HF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Joly Absolon]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The epithet &quot;joly&quot; or &quot;jolif,&quot; used seven times to characterize Absolon in MilT, is inadequately translated as &quot;jolly.&quot;  Chaucer makes use of many Middle English meanings of the word to portray Absolon as &quot;happy and light-hearted, amorous, a convivial drinker, finely dressed, self-confident, proud, and pretty--although perhaps somewhat overweight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Journeys in 1368.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues from the evidence of life-records that Chaucer might well have accompanied Prince Lionel to Milan in 1368 when the latter wedded Violanta Visconti. Presents this in support of Ethel Seaton&#039;s discussion of PF (Medium Aevum 25.3 [1956]: 168-74) as a chronicle of the betrothal.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Kneeling Friar]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The two references to kneeling in SumT help create irony.  The friar&#039;s kneeling in the first half of the tale &quot;forecasts&quot; his &quot;spiritual downfall&quot; in the last scene.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267773">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight : A Christian Killer?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The GP description of the Knight engages late-medieval questions of war and pacifism, confronting the audience with an &quot;ethical and political dilemma.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and His Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the Knight as an &quot;enlightened pragmatist&quot; and interprets various details and stylistic devices of KnT (including &quot;occupatio&quot; and various kinds of opposition) as evidence that the teller is a man who seeks to affirm &quot;ordering principles&quot; but who is also &quot;open to a range of unruly evidence&quot; (64).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and Some of His Fellow-Fighters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Elucidates the puzzling portrait of the GP Knight by &quot;historical information on chivalry&quot; and especially on knights who went to Prussia as &quot;Crusaders&quot;; modifies opposing views of the Knight (as chivalric ideal or murderous hypocrite).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264385">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and the Earl of Warwick]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Similarities between Chaucer&#039;s description of the knight and the descriptions in &quot;Warwick Pageant,&quot; a fifteenth-century complimentary biography of the Earl of Warwick, indicate that Chaucer&#039;s description contains not irony but praise.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and the Hundred Years War]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the GP Knight based on his participation in Christian crusades and his worthy &quot;non-involvement&quot; in the Hundred Years War.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and the Knight&#039;s Theseus: &#039;And Though That He Were Worthy, He Was Wys&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Having moved in his own life from warfare to pilgrimage, Chaucer&#039;s GP Knight depicts Theseus, a conqueror in war at the beginning of his tale, as effecting a solution at the end &quot;by the arts of diplomacy and rhetoric in parliament.&quot;  Theseus, with the Knight&#039;s approval, negotiates an alliance rather than renew a war.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264159">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and the Medieval Tournament]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer took great care in his descriptions of the Knight&#039;s own combats and the combats in KnT to conform to the chivalric norm of his day.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and the Mediterranean]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The discrepancies in the Knight&#039;s military curriculum reflect Chaucer&#039;s attempt to represent a desire for peace at home and for the transfer of destructive military activity to distant frontiers in Prussia and the Mediterranean.  Luttrell explores the history of English knights (their various missions, their modes of fighting, and their motivation) to explain ambiguities of the Knight and Chaucer&#039;s attitude toward the Mediterranean.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight and the Northern &#039;Crusades&#039;: The Example of Henry Bolingbroke]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kelly recounts military and political events in Lithuania around 1390-92 involving Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox Christians, and recent converts. Focuses on the involvement of Henry Bolingbroke and on uses of the word &quot;pagan,&quot; as backdrop to Chaucer&#039;s GP description of the Knight.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight as &#039;Persona&#039;: Narration as Control]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads KnT as an expression of the narrator&#039;s pessimistic yet stoic view of human &quot;travails and uncertainties,&quot; evident in the prevailing &quot;sense of the insignificance of the major actions&quot; of the plot, and reinforced by grim humor and by the tension between rising and falling action and the rhetorical device of occupatio.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight as Don Quijote]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines details and reads tonal shifts in the GP description of the Knight (in comparison with the Monk) and in KnT, considering them as evidence of Chaucer&#039;s gentle, humorous depiction of chivalry. Neither sharply satiric nor wholly idealistic, KnT is parodied by the MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight as Hero and Machaut&#039;s &#039;Prise d&#039;Alexandrie&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Like Peter of Cyprus, celebrated in Machaut&#039;s &quot;Prise,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s Knight is a hero, his lists of battles showing him to be a Crusader-knight virtuous in devotion to duty.  Chaucer deemed the knightly ideal possible in his contemporary world.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight as Revisionist Historian: Anachronism in The Knight&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads KnT as  &quot;historical narrative constructed upon a foundation of misleading anachronism . . . to lend strength to the potentially  objectionable sociopolitical agenda of its narrator.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight in Lithuania: British and Polish Critical Assessments]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer criticism rather than praise of the Knight in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight, the Alliterative &#039;Morte Arthure&#039;, and the Medieval Laws of War: A Reconsideration]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Refutes the view that Chaucer&#039;s portrayal of the Knight in CT and the portrait of Arthur in the alliterative &#039;Morte Arthure&#039; are condemnatory.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Knight, the English Aristocracy and the Crusade]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Why is the Knight identified with crusades against the infidel at a time when crusading fervor had supposedly dissipated?  Evidence from three contemporary disputes over armorial bearings (at one of which Chaucer testified) suggests that the crusading ideal had inspired many Englishmen to join the campaigns named by Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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