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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchants and the Foreign Exchange: An Introduction to Medieval Finance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Demonstrates that the Merchant engages neither in usury nor in illegal speculation.  Selling &quot;sheeldes&quot; (imaginary coins &quot;of accounts&quot; employed in Flanders) is simply a means of &quot;borrowing&quot; English sterling through foreign exchange.  The Merchant is a borrower (&quot;he was in dette&quot;), not a lender.  As such, the odds against his making a profit from the exchange were enormous.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261545">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchants: A Trade-Based Speculation On Their Activities]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fourteenth-century business practices, financial transactions,and fluctuating currency rates illuminate the characters of the ShT monk (a cloth merchant) and the GP Merchant, who probably would have chosen to travel in April, when the relative values of Flemish shields and English sterling were most propitious.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263970">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Mercury and Arcite: The &#039;Aenid&#039; and the World of the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates possible Chaucerian allusions to the &quot;Aenid&quot; in KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Meter and the Myth of the Ellesmere Editor of The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recent editors have privileged the Hengwrt (Hg) manuscript by attributing metrical and morphosyntactic features of Ellesmere (El) to editorial intervention rather than to scribal error. Mann traces the development of the &quot;myth of the El editor,&quot; especially in Manly-Rickert and Norman Blake, and shows where editorial policy has depended on this myth. Mann argues for attention to stress (rather than syllable counting) in assessing Chaucer&#039;s meter and tabulates instances in which El/Hg variants reflect common patterns of scribal variation. Mann also comments on tale order in Hg and El.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261225">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Meter: The Evidence of the Manuscripts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Most Chaucer criticism fails to mention that Chaucer&#039;s poetry is written in verse.  The way we read that verse and respond to its musicality, whether in our heads or when reading aloud, is an important part of our interpretation of and response to the pentameter couplets of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266374">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Meters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the history of approaches to Chaucer&#039;s meter and critiques individual approaches.  Proposes principles of Chaucer&#039;s tetrameter and pentameter, focusing on syntactic inversions and phrase boundaries.  Chaucer&#039;s verse developed from rough tetrameter to regular pentameter to less regular pentameter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276746">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Method of Composition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Accepts that the manuscript of Equat is Chaucer&#039;s own draft, with revisions, and suggests that evidence from TC indicates that &quot;Chaucer did not wait till he had finished his work to have parts of it copied out fair by his scribe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262354">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Metre after Chaucer, I: Chaucer to Hoccleve; II: Lydgate and Barclay]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews scholarship on meter and suggests that the verse of Chaucer&#039;s followers is more interestingly variant in context than is sometimes thought; emphasizes the central role of Hoccleve, some of whose work is available in holograph.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266348">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274508">
    <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/277654">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Miller&#039;s Tale, A 3483-6.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests on textual and etymological grounds that &quot;verye&quot;/&quot;werye&quot; in MilT 1.3485 be emended to &quot;nerye,&quot; reading the line to mean &quot;May the White Pater Noster save (us) from (the perils of the) night.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277647">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Millers and Their Bagpipes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides historical background for Chaucer&#039;s associations of millers with bagpipes in GP 1.565 and in RvT 1.3927, assessing them as an important characterizing details--vivid, realistic, appropriate, and symbolically suggestive of lechery and gluttony.]]></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>
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