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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magia e Miracolo in Due Favole Medievali]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Petrarch&#039;s account of a gemstone ring that, under the tongue of a beautiful corpse, drove Charlemagne mad with passion (&quot;Familiares&quot; 1.1.4) may have been known to Chaucer.  The legend provides a suggestive analogue for the motif of the &quot;grain&quot; in the PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273680">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and Honor in &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that parallels between the &quot;sacrifices&quot; in FranT and two analogous ones found in Jean Froissart&#039;s &quot;Chroniques&quot; 2.137-38 encourage us to see the offer of the Franklin&#039;s magician to be illusory and worthless while Arveragus&#039;s offer of the &quot;honor of his wife&quot; is &quot;very generous.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265086">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and Illusion in &#039;The Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The magic of the Orleans clerk is nothing but stage illusion achieved by natural means.  The inability of the characters (and indeed of the narrator himself) to distinguish these harmless tricks from astrology and witchcraft reveal their cultural myopia and moral shallowness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275083">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-five essays by various authors on a wide array of topics. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Magic and Magicians in the Middle and the Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264532">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and Meaning: The Poetics of Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An examination of some works commonly classified as romances--WBT, &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; &quot;The Tale of King Arthur,&quot; &quot;The Tempest,&quot; &quot;The Winter&#039;s Tale,&quot; and &quot;As You Like It&quot;--yields a definition of &quot;romance.&quot;  It is the magician who defines romance and his magic--his deep understanding of nature--that defines the development of the plot. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Through the magician, the hero can overcome the obstacles that lie before him at the outset of the plot; and, through the intervention of the magician, the audience can come to hope in a benign providence rather than a cruel, inexorable fate.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268128">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and Metafiction in the Franklin&#039;s Tale: Chaucer&#039;s Clerk of Orléans as Double of the Franklin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Similarities between magic and tale-telling and between the clerk of Orléans and the Franklin recur in FranT, despite the Franklin&#039;s attempts to distance them. As the clerk seeks to educate Aurelius, the Franklin tries to teach the Squire.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270755">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Saunders studies medieval understandings of &quot;magic, enchantment, the demonic, marvel and miracle.&quot; Surveys these topics in biblical and classical precedents, focuses on a range of romances in Middle English, and provides an epilogue that looks toward the English Renaissance. Includes recurrent references to Chaucer, his romances, and his commentaries on magic and magicians, with sustained attention to SqT and FranT, which &quot;make clear distinctions&quot; between natural magic and &quot;less acceptable practices.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267332">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic in Medieval Romance from Chrétien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Magic enables discussion of contemporary political and social issues and timeless questions of faith, love, loyalty, fate, and destiny. The concluding chapter shows how magic in FranT enables discussion of free will and challenges the Franklin&#039;s concept of nobility. By mixing illusion and magic, Chaucer debates fundamentals of social status and issues of contemporary class-climbing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265276">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic, Machines, and Deception: Technology in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer most often depicts technology as an aid to trickery and fraud.  Chaucer&#039;s mechanical wonders--such as those in FrT, SqT, and CYT--are potentially dangerous to persons lacking inside knowledge.  Even simple machines can deceive. Though Chaucer is not necessarily antitechnological, he is generally skeptical of machinery.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269216">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic, Science and Romance: Chaucer and the Supernatural]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval beliefs and learning about magic and explores the narrative function and resonance of magic and the supernatural in Chaucer&#039;s writing. Also considers relations to natural philosophy or &quot;science&quot; and the shift from medieval to Renaissance notions of magic and the supernatural.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271238">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that a &quot;relationship between magic, spectacle, and morality . . . preoccupies a number&quot; of fourteenth-century Middle English texts, focusing on the magical objects in SqT and other instances of magic in CT to exemplify the variety and complexities of the relationship. Considers at length how Canacee&#039;s ring links magic to morality because it &quot;facilitates true communication.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277135">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magical Places.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Creative non-fiction contemplation of storytelling, Chicanx identity, and spatial politics, including, in Chapter 3, &quot;Disciplines and Disciples,&quot; a brief consideration of &quot;discipline&quot; in CYT (8.1253), as it relates to alchemy, deception, storytelling, and belief.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271175">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magill&#039;s Survey of World Literature. Revised Edition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introductions to 380 writers who are &quot;at the heart of literary studies for middle and high school students and at the center of book discussions among library patrons.&quot; Originally published in 1993-95, edited by Frank N. Magill. The entry about Chaucer (pp. 532-39), by William Nelles, includes a biographical sketch and descriptive analyses of each of the poet&#039;s major works, accompanied by a bibliography and topics for discussion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274711">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contains nineteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors, on literary and historical topics, Arthuriana, and women in the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for &quot;Magistra doctissima&quot; under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267004">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magnitude and Direction : An Examination of Rhetorical Features of Minimal Manuals, Past and Present]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this study of a specialized kind of computer manual, Chaucer&#039;s Astr is cited as a prototype and analyzed for its use of three characteristic rhetorical features.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269032">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maintaining Injustice : Literary Representation of the Legal System c. 1400]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Mel as a medieval critique of the interplay between the justice system and the practice of livery and maintenance.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268688">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maintaining Love Through Accord in the Tale of Melibee]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Events depicted in Chaucer&#039;s French source &quot;mirror a popular English legal remedy, the loveday or accord,&quot; and Chaucer uses the occasion to comment on the importance and role of &quot;maintenance&quot; (the &quot;exchange of money and influence between a lord and high level-servants, kinsmen, and friends&quot;). Chaucer&#039;s translation reveals the &quot;limitations of out-of-court settlement: informal conflict resolution could be compromised by powerful retainer lords,&quot; just as it often was in the courts and Chancery.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270104">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines a variety of medieval social relations as forms of &quot;maintenance,&quot; i.e., &quot;being provided or providing the wherewithal to live.&quot; Lord-retainer, master-servant, and husband-wife relations are analogous forms of maintenance that inform one another as depicted in late medieval English literature, including letters and historical records. Kennedy&#039;s literary topics focus on works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and Hoccleve. She discusses concerns with coverture and rape in FranT and in WBT and its analogue, &quot;The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271796">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Major Middle English Poets and Manuscript Studies, 1300-1450]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Section 5, &quot;Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the Canterbury Tales,&quot; analyzes structural and scribal differences in CT manuscripts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Make Believe: Chaucer&#039;s Rationale of Story-telling in &#039;The House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer questions the nature of storytelling and the possibility of writing &quot;truth&quot; in imaginative literature.  Two words express the divergence  of the problem in the Middle Ages:  &quot;sooth,&quot; which is axiomatic truth (often expressed proverbially); and &quot;trouthe,&quot; which refers to personal worth and reliability.  &quot;The longer Chaucer went on composing, the more completely he liberated himself from the restriction of a single voice of &quot;trouthe&quot; imposed by oral tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The greater authority his &quot;trouthe&quot; acquired, the more voices he could speak in, so that he came to depend more and more upon his audience for the completion of the &quot;sooth&quot; of his stories.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273972">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Make Room for Daddy: Translating Chaucer into American.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies difficulties in translating Chaucer for American audiences: linguistic difficulties (especially false cognates such as &quot;countrefete&quot; and &quot;lust&quot;) and several social changes that make Chaucer the &quot;absent father in the United States.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273015">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S. G. Edwards]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays honoring A. S. G. Edward&#039;s career, as well  as his scholarly work on the &quot;transitional period between manuscript  and print culture.&quot;  For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Makers and Users of Medieval Books under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266692">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Making a Play for Criseyde: The Staging of Pandarus&#039;s House in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Pandarus&#039;s house and its literary functions in light of architectural details of fourteenth-century houses such as the &quot;privy,&quot; &quot;stewe,&quot; and &quot;trappe&quot; and in relation to conventions of medieval dramatic staging.  Pandarus, leading Troilus through the trap, may be reminiscent of stage devils emerging from hell.  Pandarus acts as director and author of the scene, while Criseyde serves as the audience.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276869">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Making an Edition in an App.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews the history, planning, making, distribution, an early use of the CantApp edition of GP (2020), designed to be accessed on a mobile device, the first of its kind. Offers suggestions for similar efforts in the future and includes description of pedagogical applications for reading Chaucer aloud.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270967">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Making an Entrance: From Chaucer to Tarleton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes commentary (pp. 16-18) on the &quot;entrances&quot; of Chanticleer and Russell into NPT, suggesting parallels between features of the Tale and the staging of a play.]]></dcterms:description>
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