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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ending a Poem Before Beginning It, or The &#039;Cas&#039; of Troilus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In TC 1, the narrator&#039;s initial confidence that Troilus is an exemplary figure conflicts with the reader&#039;s growing awareness of the narrator&#039;s limited knowledge of love and its conventions, paralleling Troilus&#039;s own movement from confidence to uncertainty.  As a result, the reader is provoked to seek to understand love more fully.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267480">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ending in the Middle : Closure, Openness, and Significance in Embedded Medieval Narratives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Concerned with issues of closure in texts of Guillaume de Lorris, Dante, and Boccaccio. Introduction notes recent criticism treating Chaucer&#039;s &quot;open endings.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engagements de Gauvain et courtoisie dans &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the notion of commitment in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; and briefly mentions MilT in relation to the several meanings of the term &quot;hend(e).&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engaging with Chaucer: Practice, Authority, Reading.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints ten essays on Chaucer by various authors, each previously edited by Moseley for two issues of the journal Critical Survey: 29, no. 3 (2017) and 30, no. 2 (2018). The volume includes an introductory essay by Moseley and a comprehensive index.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engaging Words : The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes depictions of reading in books of hours and assesses the theme of reading in Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, examining a new &quot;reflexive relationship&quot; between &quot;reading habits and the shaping of identity&quot; in the late Middle Ages. Challenging the notion of a static authoritative text, Chaucer encouraged his audience to recognize that selves are &quot;textually constructed&quot; and that reading is fundmentally ethical.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[HFdefines Chaucer&#039;s assumptions about reading, and TC portrays reading as a &quot;private act with social ramifications.&quot; In CT, the Wife of Bath&#039;s attitudes toward texts contrasts with the &quot;unreflective attitudes&quot; of the Prioress. The Clerk exemplifies self-conscious uses of texts, and Chaucer promotes awareness of the roles of texts in creating subjectivity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engendering Authority: Father and Daughter, State and Church in Gower&#039;s &#039;Tale of Constance&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Gower&#039;s version of the Constance story, incest is a metaphor for the relationship between the Church and the crown, a means to critique the two. In contrast, MLT &quot;tries to avoid suggesting any tension between lay and clerical power.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engendering Obligation: Sworn Brotherhood and Love Rivalry in Medieval English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Stretter comments on various romances and includes discussion of how, in KnT, Palamon and Arcite&#039;s mutual love for Emily disrupts their sworn brotherhood, a powerful bond of obligation and friendship. Chaucer alters a long cultural and literary tradition of fidelity between sworn brothers by introducing the element of erotic love. The rupture between Palamon and Arcite may reflect cultural anxiety regarding &quot;trouthe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engendering Pity in the &#039;Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the sexual politics of FranT, arguing that its fundamental ideas of &quot;gentilesse&quot; and &quot;pitee&quot; reflect an aristocratic, masculinist hierarchy.  The courtly setting entails this hierarchy, which dominates the tale, but Dorigen&#039;s complaint and the closing unanswered question enable readers to dissent against such assumptions about class and gender.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270661">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces recent critical engagement with the &quot;problem&quot; of late medieval English national identity in Chaucer, especially as it reflects anxieties about political upheaval, linguistic variety, cultural &quot;hybridity,&quot; and English geographical isolation. Lavezzo draws together comments on the Auchinleck Book, &quot;Sir Orfeo,&quot; Higden&#039;s &quot;Polychronicon,&quot; and several of the tales in CT, especially Th, which, she argues, obliquely engages concerns of nation presented directly in Guy of Warwick.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays by various authors on topics in the social, literary, and cultural relations between England and Bohemia in the late fourteenth century, embodied in the marriage between Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. The introduction by the editors clarifies Chaucer&#039;s place in this milieu and introduces the individual essays; the volume includes an index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England and the Crusade of Nicropolis, 1396]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the GP sketch of the Knight, Gower&#039;s &quot;To King Henry the Fourth,&quot; and the Wilton Diptych as evidence of English support for Philippe de Mezieres&#039;s promotion of the 1396 crusade against the Turks, perhaps evidence of English participation in the crusade.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes comparison of PrT with sources and analogues: the Anglo-Norman Hughes de Lincoln and two accounts--&quot;The Child Slain by Jews&quot; and &quot;The Jewish Boy&quot;--found in the Vernon manuscript. Analyzes the stories&#039; various contributions to the racialization of England, arguing that PrT &quot;conjures England as a new kind of space where Christians are a population &#039;ycomen of Cristen blood&#039;--a de facto race whose time had come, in a post-expulsion land.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England in the Age of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Social history of England, particularly London, in the late fourteenth century, focusing on the laboring class and the Uprising of 1381 (Peasants&#039; Revolt).  Concentrates on economic conditions, legal practice, sanitation and medicine, plague, urban growth, activities of the seasons, entertainments and rituals--all illustrated with black and white figures and wide-ranging examples drawn from historical records and contemporary literature, especially Chaucer, Langland, Froissart, and other chronicles. Includes a section on literature and patronage which includes commentary on Chaucer&#039;s works, and recurrently characterizes Chaucer and Wycliffe as harbingers of future attitudes and perspectives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265253">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes five essays on relations between image and text, three on literature, and three on the church and society. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for England in the Fourteenth Century under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England in The Reign of Edward III]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A descriptive political history of Edward&#039;s reign that explores how his personality and style of ruling were crucial to the development of political order and various domestic institutions.  Pt. 1 surveys major events of Edward&#039;s reign; pts. 2 and 3 define the economic and social context.  Pt. 4 examines Edward&#039;s government and various kinds of community evident in his time; pt. 5 explores the process of negotiating political conflict and consent.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England: Literature and Society]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rigby explores how a variety of Middle English texts reflect and reinforce the normative ideologies of class and gender in late medieval England. Contempt for the world helped to assert social hierarchies, justify inequalities, and quell tensions. Cites several works by Chaucer, with recurrent references to ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274197">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England&#039;s Dead Boys: Telling Tales of Christian-Jewish Relations before and After the First European Expulsion of the Jews.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares several late-medieval boy-murder narratives to assess attitudes toward Jews before and after their 1290 expulsion from England. Chaucer&#039;s PrT is the &quot;finest aesthetic treatment&quot; of the story in the Middle Ages and, in comparison with other versions, it has relatively little emphasis on filth and desecration. Importantly, the tale makes a &quot;remarkable contribution&quot; to the &quot;racialization of England,&quot; representing genealogical, spatial, and pedagogical aspects of defining Christians by contrast with Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England&#039;s Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Combines New Historicism and cultural psychoanalysis to explore how the Lancastrian dynasty and its supporters responded to and helped to construct a response to Henry Lancaster&#039;s usurpation of Richard II&#039;s throne. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Interrogates the indeterminacies of literary and historical texts to formulate a &quot;series of perspectives on the relations between textuality and political process,&quot; examining how such perspectives contributed to &quot;Lancastrian self-legitimation&quot; (xiii). ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Lancastrian dynastic texts are particularly &quot;amnesiac,&quot; since their aim was often to repress information, but such amnesia is endemic in all texts. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Recurrent references to various chronicles, prophecies, Lollard texts, and works by Hoccleve and Lygate; occasional references to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England&#039;s Spain: An Invisible Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapter 2 comprises discussion of how &quot;astronomy travelled from Spain to England&quot; and speculation about &quot;how Chaucer might have benefitted [sic] from this collaboration in order to produce&quot; Astr.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Englische und Amerikanische Dichtung, 1: Englische Dichtung, von Chaucer bis Milton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this anthology includes material by Chaucer in German translation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Analogues to the &quot;Liber Scalae.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the transmission of the &quot;Liber Scalae&quot; (ultimately Arabic), and identifies similarities between its eschatological and cosmological details and those found in late-medieval English works, including &quot;Pearl,&quot; &quot;The Land of Cockayne,&quot; and HF, some mediated by Dante&#039;s &quot;Commedia.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English and French in England After 1362]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anglo-Norman should be considered &quot;a coherent, if constantly changing, entity from 1066 to the middle of the fifteenth century&quot; (559), with widely different forms that influenced English in the fifteenth-century, when scribes were working both in English and French. In the GP portrait of Chaucer&#039;s Sergeant of the Lawe, many French legal terms have meanings particular to their use in England.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English and International Studies in the Literature, Art, and Patronage of Medieval England. Ed. Derek Pearsall and Nicolette Zeeman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sixteen articles and excerpts, some previously published (including three on TC), some published for the first time.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the sustained influence of Italian culture in England from Chaucer through Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Gascoigne, Marston, Fletcher, and Shakespeare. Summarizes the development of Italian city-states and explores topics such as Italian influence on English education, humanism, and literary genres and modes: epic, comedy, novella, and pastoral. Individual chapters examine Italian influence on Chaucer and on Shakespeare, including the influence of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on HF, CT, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Auctores and Authorial Readers: Early Modernizations of Chaucer and Lydgate]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses how two seventeenth-century modernizations reflect the reception of their Middle English originals. Jonathan Sidnam&#039;s modernization of the first three books of TC (ca. 1630) offers respectful tribute to Chaucer and seeks to preserve his legacy, while &quot;The Life and Death of Hector&quot; (1614), an anonymous modernization of Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book,&quot; seeks to replace the original.]]></dcterms:description>
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