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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing before 1700]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes a wide variety of selections from classical, biblical, medieval, and early modern literatures in a &quot;companion to literary or cultural study of premodern ecological concerns.&quot; Includes two samples from Chaucer: a conflation of portions of the first 200 lines of LGWP-F and LGWP-G, and lines 302–71 of PF, both in modernized spelling, accompanied by glosses at the bottom of the page and brief introductions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268019">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fourteen essays by various authors in honor of John Block Friedman, covering topics that include Anglo-Saxon, Mandeville&#039;s Travels, Cleanness, Gesta Herwardi, Froissart&#039;s &quot;Debate of the Horse and the Greyhound,&quot; apocrypha, insanity, nude Cyclops, and portentous births. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary Magdalene as New Custance?: &quot;The Woman Cast Adrift&quot; in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores relations between medieval romance and medieval religious drama, focusing on the &quot;woman cast adrift&quot; motif in the Digby Mary Magdalene play. Assesses how contrasts between the protagonists&#039; agency in the play and in versions of the Constance story by Chaucer, Trevet, and Gower may have enhanced the status of Magdalene as an active and powerful &quot;female heroine&quot; for a late-medieval audience.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary Shelley, Godwin&#039;s Chaucer, and the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ganim argues that Mary Shelley was influenced by her father, William Godwin, who wrote &quot;Life of Chaucer&quot; and from whom she learned a dual attitude toward the Middle Ages: people are shaped by historical circumstances, and they must seek to rise above these circumstances through reason and individual discovery.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267925">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary Shelton and Her Tudor Literary Milieu]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Remley describes the Devonshire manuscript (British Library Additional 17492) and assesses the role and purposes of Shelton&#039;s writing it-e.g., protesting the incarceration of Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard, reflecting Tudor practices of &quot;making&quot; poetry, and indicating the role of printed texts in Tudor manuscript anthologies. Shelton&#039;s pastiche of Chaucerian works (excerpts from TC, Anel, and apocrypha) derives from Thynne&#039;s edition and offers a &quot;defense of its subjects&#039; right to love at will.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270801">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary, Motherhood, and Theatricality in the Old Polish &#039;Listen, Dear Brothers&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the &quot;theatricality of imagery&quot; in MLT, particularly in Constance&#039;s prayer to the Virgin (2.841-54), with the Polish Marian crucifixion lament &quot;Listen, Dear Brothers.&quot; Includes an English translation of the Polish lyric.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary, Sanctity and Prayers to Saints: Chaucer and the Late-Medieval Piety]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores religious content of Marian prayers found in ABC, PrP, SNP, Ret and MLT. Argues that Chaucer does not attempt to &quot;simplify moral issues and theological questions&quot; in his tales of saints.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary&#039;s Swollen Womb: What It Looks Like to Overcome Tyranny in the Second Nun&#039;s Prologue and Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the contrast between the Marian womb imagery of SNP (7.43-49) and the deflated bladder of Almachius&#039;s power in SNT (7.437-41), finding in the contrast &quot;a vision of the Church that attests freedom and obedience, as well as Chaucer&#039;s embracing the task of the Christian artist who would imitate a creator who generates dependence without control.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262784">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community: The Self Loving in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the social psychology and structure of male power--aggression in gazing, rape imagery and fantasy, objectification of women, competitive assertiveness among males--as aspects of &quot;love&quot; and the social expectations for masculine identity in the closed social world of the courtly community in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266770">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction by the editor, plus seventeen essays by various authors.  The collection includes one essay on the Host, thirteen on CT, and three on TC. For the individual essays, search for Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270011">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masculinity and Its Hydraulic Semiotics in Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Troilus&#039;s secret entry into Criseyde&#039;s bedroom in Pandarus&#039;s house alludes to  King David&#039;s surprise of the Jebusites when conquering their city (2 Samuel  5); it attests to Troilus&#039;s masculine heroism and derives in part from Chaucer&#039;s experiences in draining marshes when he was Clerk of Works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268114">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masks of the Unconscious: Bad Faith and Casuistry in the Dramatic Monologue]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reader-response analysis of various dramatic monologues. Shaw focuses on the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning and other Victorians but clarifies the functions of deception, self-deception, casuistry, irony, double irony, and Sartre&#039;s concept of &quot;bad faith&quot; by assessing works of Chaucer, Donne, the Earl of Rochester, and others. Shaw describes the Pardoner as a &quot;simple liar&quot; and examines the potential for double ironies in the GP description of the Wife of Bath and in WBP, focusing on &quot;daungerous&quot; (3.151) in the latter.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masochism, Masculinity, and the Pleasures of Troilus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Troilus&#039;s suffering in TC is informed by a &quot;Christian economy&quot; of pain that valorizes a new kind of manhood, one that activates others through its passivity and converts weakness to strength &quot;through a managed display.&quot;  Troilus&#039;s identity &quot;emerges from inaction,&quot; and his &quot;masculinity is produced  as masochistic to secure its privileged position.&quot;  His exaltation at the end of the poem confirms the audience&#039;s enjoyment of his suffering.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mastering Aesop : Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the use of Latin beast fables in medieval schools and the legacy of this material in the works of late-medieval authors who were educated in the tradition and who wrote in English. Focuses on fables associated with the legendary Roman emperor Romulus and explores adaptations of this and related materials in NPT, John Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Isopes Fabules,&quot; and Robert Henryson&#039;s &quot;Morall Fabillis.&quot; Chaucer and Henryson more successfully adapted the conventions of the tradition than did Lydgate. Includes five appendices of Latin fables, English translations, commentaries, and apparatus. Chapter four is a revised version of &quot;Commentary Displacing Text: The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale and the Scholastic Fable Tradition&quot; (SAC 20 [1998], no. 234).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277306">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masterplots: 510 Plots in Story from the World&#039;s Fine Literature. 2 vols.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes (vol. 2, pp. 1030-31) a summary of the plot and main characters of TC, categorizing it as a &quot;Chivalric romance,&quot; and praising it as an &quot;almost perfectly constructed narrative poem&quot; with &quot;effective depiction of character&quot; that &quot;forecast[s] the shrewd observations of human nature made in&quot; GP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273415">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masters and Commanders: Considering the Concept of the Edited Text.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions the concept of a &quot;standard edition&quot; in the postmodern world of textual editing and uses the controversy about Adam Pinkhurst (Was he Chaucer&#039;s scribe cited in Adam?) as evidence that &quot;medievalists really seek editorial closure,&quot; despite insufficient, open-ended, or ambiguous data.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268726">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mate or Mother: Positioning Criseyde Among Chaucer&#039;s Widows]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer resists the prevailing &quot;lusty widow&quot; stereotype in his depictions of the Wife of Bath and Criseyde, paving the way for more positive images of widows on the Renaissance stage.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274426">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Materiality and the Hylomorphic Imagination.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;cultural connotation of physical matter&quot; expressed in gendered hylomorphic metaphors (matter/form) in the Medea accounts of LGW and John Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book,&quot; arguing that Chaucer&#039;s representation raises questions about &quot;the human as a category,&quot; challenges traditional theories of causation, and interrogates the nature of desire.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Materials]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Da Rold&#039;s study of Cambridge University Library MS Dd.4.24 (a manuscript of CT) suggests that variations in shades of ink helps to disclose scribal habits of copying and emendation as well as the continuity of the exemplars used. Argues for further study of the transmission of CT manuscripts to be done by examining ink shading and parchment thickness in conjunction.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Matheolus, Chaucer, and the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An important immediate source of Chaucer&#039;s work is in the Latin &quot;Lamentations of Matheolus,&quot; a thirteenth-century French cleric, whose work Jean le Fevre translated into French and expanded in the fourteenth century.  In excess of one hundred parallels between &quot;Lamentations&quot; and WBP/WBT are proposed. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In French and in Latin the work survives in fourteenth-century mss in the British Library.  It is also a source for Deschamps&#039; &quot;Miroir de Mariage,&quot; not published until after 1406, and obviously not a source for Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273162">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Matière orientale et valeurs du temps dans le &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039; de Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the oriental influences on Chaucer&#039;s SqT and on his treatment of the marvelous in light of the medieval controversial approach to mechanisms.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Matter and Form in Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Aristotelian theories of matter, form, and substance interact with medieval poetics, particularly in such works as ManT, SqT, &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and those of Hoccleve and Metham.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271179">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maupassant&#039;s Empty Frame: A New Look at &#039;Boule de Suif&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;ironic references&quot; to frame tales in Guy de Maupassant&#039;s story, &quot;Boule de Suif,&quot; tallying similarities and differences between these references and Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s CT, and Marguerite de Navarre&#039;s &quot;Heptaméron.&quot; Also comments that Maupassant&#039;s protagonist, Élizabeth Rousset, may have been partly inspired by the Wife of Bath and that there are parallels between her situation and that of Cecilia in SNT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273618">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maximo Manso: Love&#039;s Fool.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Perez Galdos&#039;s &quot;El amigo Manso&quot; (1882) echoes TC in its concern with philosophical consolation, the theme of kinds of knowledge, and the narrator protagonist&#039;s mocking of his mourners in the afterlife. Like Troilus, Manso is an idealistic lover whose beloved does not match his ideal.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[May Devoid of All Delight: January, the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale and the &#039;Romance of the Rose&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reason&#039;s speeches in the &quot;Roman de la Rose&quot; connect lust and avarice with merchants and thus provide a gloss for MerT.  Amant, January, and the Merchant are similar moral types; the Merchant and January are dramatically related in that both marry &quot;worldly goods&quot; and both are guilty of avarice.]]></dcterms:description>
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