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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Metre and Scribal Editing in the Early Manuscripts of &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The metrical and stylistic habits reflected in the variants of WBP manuscripts Hengwrt, Ellesmere, Gg, Ha4, CP, and Dd indicate scribal rather than authorial origins.  In comparison with Hengwrt, Ellesmere does not reflect a consistent effort to improve meter, but in the first half of WBP Ellesmere shares with Gg a relatively formal style.  Ha4 and Cp reflect consistent metrical revision; Dd, somewhat less consistent metrical revision.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272370">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Metrical Landscape]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions the idea that Chaucer&#039;s relationship with the alliterative verse of his contemporaries, such as the &quot;Gawain&quot;-poet and Langland, was antagonistic. Instead, suggests that the alliterative and the London poets participate in a shared metrical phonology and a range of metrical choices far more complex than a simple binary between long-line alliterative and decasyllabic verse.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264759">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Metrical Lines: Some Internal evidence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Though we cannot recover the facts of Chaucer&#039;s versification,his lines in CT are basically iambic pentameter.  Of the first hundred lines of GP in the Ellesmere MS., eighty may be so scanned with little difficulty.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275248">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Middle English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Chaucer&#039;s language as a dialect and a stage in the development of English. Designed for classroom use, includes sections on vocabulary, grammar, style and register, and the opening eighteen lines of the GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Miller and &quot;Pilates Voys.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the assigning of &quot;Pilates voys&quot; to the Miller (MilP 1.3124) may be due in part to the apocryphal notion that Pilate was the son of a miller&#039;s daughter, as recorded in the &quot;Legenda Aurea.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274543">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Miller, Pilate, and the Devil.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores associative and metaphoric links between Chaucer&#039;s Miller (GP and MilP), the devil, and Pilate, who was &quot;traditionally an agent of the devil.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265299">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Miller&#039;s Curious Characters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Both the Miller and characters in his &quot;Tale&quot; exhibit &quot;curiositas,&quot; defined by medieval Church fathers as the exercise of curiosity in pursuit of idle knowledge, i.e., knowledge not directly leading to salvation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268562">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Miller&#039;s Tale and Reeve&#039;s Tale, Boccaccio&#039;s Decameron, and the French Fabliaux]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Several motifs and verbal echoes among MilT, RvT, and &quot;The Decameron&quot; strengthen the case for &quot;memorial borrowing&quot; and invite the invention of a new critical term for Chaucer&#039;s poems: &quot;metrical novellas.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272864">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Mind and Art]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors, six of them previously published. For the newly published essays, search for Chaucer&#039;s Mind and Art under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267084">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Misfit Pilgrims : The Miller, Reeve, Prioress, and Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Miller is a stereotypical Celt, disparaged by society; Oswald the Reeve is an Anglo-Saxon who resents the Celtic Miller&#039;s &quot;specialized trade.&quot; The Prioress is distanced from secular society by her profession and distanced from her profession by her secularity. The Wife of Bath meets no one&#039;s standards but her own.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266780">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Missing Children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As in late-medieval lyrics and drama, the suffering of mothers and children in Chaucer&#039;s works is presented as analogous to the suffering of Mary and Jesus. Surveys the presence and absence of references to children in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264908">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Mnemonic Verses and the Siege of Thebes in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The short verse argument to the &quot;Thebaid&quot; prefixed to most manuscripts of TC had probably been memorized in Chaucer&#039;s youth and was used for the later books of TC.  While the siege of Troy continues, Cassandra completes the story of the siege of Thebes; at the center of both narratives is a man betrayed by a faithless woman.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276422">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Modest and Homely Poem: The &quot;Parlement.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews J. A. W. Bennett&#039;s 1957 book &quot;The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation,&quot; exploring the weaknesses and strengths of his critical methodology and application.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265888">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Moments in the &#039;Kneeling World&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces a strain of Marian mysticism in Chaucer&#039;s works, including ABC and several aspects of SNT and PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272442">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk and Sports and Games in Medieval Monasteries and Cathedral Churches]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the impact of medieval monastic culture on the evolution of sports, such as hockey, football and, in particular, tennis, including commentary on Chaucer&#039;s criticism of ecclesiastics engaged in sport. Argues that Chaucer&#039;s clerics reflect the contradictory nature of a supposedly sinful, yet popular monastic pastime.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269972">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk Illuminated: Zenobia as Role Model]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer may have intended to end MkT with the  account of Zenobia--extracting it from LGW--and thereby to offer her narrative  as a remedy for the Monk&#039;s &quot;spiritual condition,&quot; which develops over the course of CT. Lindeboom compares Chaucer&#039;s version of Zenobia to that in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;De Claris Mulieribus.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265712">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk: &#039;A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[MkT makes a political statement reflecting Richard II&#039;s tyrannous activities during the altter years of his reign.  The stories of misgovernment suggest a late date of composition for the work.  The character of the Monk is based on Nimrod, himself an &quot;unholy hunter,&quot; a &quot;tyrant-priest,&quot; more concerned for his own personal wealth (as supposedly was Richard) than for common profit.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263019">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk: An Errant Exegete]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s portrait of the Monk is consistent throughout CT.  In narrating MkT, the Monk distorts biblical passages such as the Samson exemplum, showing himself remiss in biblical studies just as the GP Monk is lax in other clerical duties.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273282">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk: Baldness, Venery, and Embonpoint.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies the sexual and medical implications of several details in the GP description of the Monk, including his association with venery and food, his baldness, and his being fat &quot;in good point&quot; (1.200).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265366">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk: The Poetics of Abbreviation, Aggression, and Tragedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Monk (who, alone among the pilgrims, discusses both meter and genre at length) with his hundred tragedies can be viewed as a &quot;rival poet&quot; whose &quot;imaginative narrowness,&quot; &quot;verbal repetition,&quot; &quot;tiresome&quot; syntax, and encapsulated world view stand in marked contrast to Chaucer&#039;s own.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263266">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk: The Rochester Connection]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The reference to Rochester just before MkT helps explain the choice of teller, the nature of the tale, and the narrator&#039;s refusal to &quot;pleye&quot; when he is interrupted.  Rochester Cathedral included a monastic house; it contained a mural of Fortune&#039;s Wheel; and its bishop, Thomas Brinton, preached against monastic corruption.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261980">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The labors of Hercules, employed by Boethius to show how man may determine his own fortune, are misused by the Monk, who sees the &quot;Consolation&quot; only as a source for secular tales.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266101">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Monogram and the &#039;Hoccleve Portrait&#039; Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Read in accord with the medieval one-handed alphabet, the hand positions in Chaucer&#039;s Hoccleve portrait form the monogram GC.  These positions appear to be a constant in the tradition of Chaucer portraiture, including the Ellesmere miniature.  Such devices were used in medieval portraiture to particularize otherwise typical and timeless images.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262854">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Moon: Cinthia, Diana, Latona, Lucina, Prosperpina]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Each of the five names Chaucer uses for the moon goddess denotes a particular aspect of the goddess.  A study of these names in TC, FranT, KnT, and MerT and of the functions they denote helps us understand the personalities of the women who invoke her and over whose lives she presides.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273452">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Moose.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that the opening of Elizabeth Bishop&#039;s &quot;The Moose&quot; contains several echoes of GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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