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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Monism and Abuse of Authority in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer abuses authority throughout CT.  He refers to so many authorities that they cannot be reduced to anything like unity.  Such abuse reflects the farcical potential of the academic procedure of disputation as well as the dilemma of the authoritative texts themselves.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Monks and Friars: Differing Literary Perceptions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes various depictions of monks and friars in late medieval English vernacular literature, observing that, despite prevalent anti-fraternal satire, friars &quot;retained considerable support&quot; in this literature. Because they were cloistered, monks generally &quot;receive less attention.&quot; Comments on Chaucer&#039;s Monk, Friar, and ShT, as well as other works of the English Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269176">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Murder - Modern Crime Fiction]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Barnes contrasts the absence of the city of London in medieval fiction (CkT, CYT, and Athelston) with fictionalized descriptions of medieval London in murder mysteries written in the 1980s and 1990s by P.C. Doherty and Kate Sedley.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Narrative : An Introduction]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Davenport describes several categories of medieval narrative, focusing on English literature, particularly Chaucer. Discusses didactic narratives (exempla and fables), historical accounts (chronicle, epic, romance), comic tales (fabliaux and novella), fantasies (otherworldly voyages and dream visions), tragedies, and compilations, as well as prologues and narrative personae.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the development of each category out of classical and vernacular traditions and into late medieval England, commenting on how medieval notions of narrative helped shape later views. Pays sustained attention to CT and TC, with recurrent comments on Chaucer&#039;s other works and a wide range of other medieval stories.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Narratives of Accused Queens]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In narratives of falsely accused queens, the queens frequently undergo periods of exile that refine their souls through poverty and suffering. Black compares the Constance narratives by Nicholas Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer, examining each version in light of its writer&#039;s generic and thematic aims: Trevet&#039;s interest in history and his association of an active, learned Custance with Mary of Woodstock; Gower&#039;s focus on didactic themes; and Chaucer&#039;s development of Constance (from her initial youthful simplicity to her deepening spirituality), the pathos of MLT, the narrator&#039;s untrustworthiness, and innovative allusions to Pope Innocent III&#039;s &quot;De miseria condicionis humane.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great: Transnational Texts in England and France.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines connection between &quot;language and cultural identity&quot; and claims that Chaucer mocks &quot;Alexander&#039;s &#039;storie&#039; as &#039;commune&#039; &quot;in MkT. Analyzes how Latin, French, and English Alexander narratives were read, and rewritten, in medieval literature between 1150 and 1350, providing a &quot;multilingual and comparative approach&quot; to understanding modern studies of medieval Alexander literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, and Chaucer, <br />
 to explore how fourteenth-century writers understood &quot;possibilities in language&quot; and &quot;transformed these accounts into new forms, and practices of non-signification.&quot; Discusses Chaucer&#039;s dream visions, in particular HF, and how Chaucer&#039;s use of &quot;non-signification&quot; and use of words as sounds relates to contemporary language usage and modernist literature of writers such as Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll, and James Joyce.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263317">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Optics and the Framed Narrative in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Optics as expounded by Roger Bacon provided the theory of perspective and radiating lines; architecture and manuscript illumination provided the technique of viewing scenes and personages through a frame.  In TC, there are physical, verbal, historical, and philosophical frames.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274141">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the political motivations of Ovid&#039;s &quot;frame narratives&quot; and how they appealed to and influenced medieval writers. For a chapter on Chaucer see Chapter 4, &quot;Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272341">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Poems and Medieval Society]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the value of historicist approaches to medieval literary study, compared with other approaches, suggesting that a phenomenological approach aligned with humanistic awareness of individual consciousness is desirable. Recurrent references to Chaucer&#039;s works and Chaucer criticism, with sustained attention to the colter scene of MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Essays emphasize the importance of poetry and poetics in the &quot;formation of social structures, actions, and utterances&quot; in this festschrift for Penn R. Szittya. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Poetics and Social Practice under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272831">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Poetry and Medieval Sin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the single use of the word &quot;sin&quot; in MilT (1.3589), suggesting that the Tale and, more generally, the &quot;best medieval literature&quot; do not &quot;necessarily have anything to do with sin,&quot; but offer &quot;joy to the reader.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263197">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Portraiture and the Roots of Late Gothic Aesthetics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Both the portraits of GP and the representations of the Deadly Sins in &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; (B text of &quot;Visio&quot;) achieve a new form, combining the traditional with &quot;individualized details.&quot;  Such a pattern is analogous to the development of late-Gothic effigies on royal tombs.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Readers and Ancient Texts: The Influence of the Past]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This review article assesses four recent books on how the Middle Ages responded to classical literature:  Ralph Hexter&#039;s &quot;Ovid and Medieval Schooling,&quot; the essay collection &quot;Lectures medievales de Virgile,&quot; Jean-Charles Huchet&#039;s &quot;Le Roman medieval&quot; (mainly a psychoanalytic reading of the &quot;Eneas&quot;), and Winthrop Wetherbee&#039;s &quot;Chaucer and the Poets.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264109">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Readers and Writers, 1350-1400]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Deals with verse and prose in Middle English, Latin, and Anglo-Norman as literary evidence of the rise of literacy and social mobility.  Most literary works aimed at reform and edification in Christian ethical behavior rather than at entertainment.  Includes many references to Chaucer:  MSS, CT, GP, FrT, PardT, NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Rereading and Rewriting: The Context of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;ABC&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores literary and historical contexts that complicate reception of ABC, including works by Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, and John Lydgate.  Chaucer&#039;s stand-alone translation initiates an immediacy with its audience that is not apparent in Deguileville&#039;s &quot;Pelerinage de la vie humaine&quot; or Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Pilgrimage of the Life of Man.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Rhetoric and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;An ABC,&#039; &#039;Book of the Duchess,&#039; and &#039;Parliament of Fowls&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rhetorical devices in Chaucer&#039;s early poems aid description, lend emphasis, achieve amplification or brevity, and mark transitions.  The figures iintensify the utterances of characters, and characterize persons, concepts, or objects.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272081">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Rhetoric and Chaucer&#039;s Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys rhetorical traditions in fourteenth-century England and assesses the impact of &quot;artes poetriae,&quot; &quot;grammaticae,&quot; and &quot;praedicandi&quot; on Chaucer&#039;s poetry generally and on NPT in particular. Includes appendixes of medieval rhetorical terms (with translations) and descriptions and locations of manuscripts of Latin rhetorical manuals.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271091">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Rhetoric Delivers; or, Where Chaucer Learned How to Act]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the role of performance, or delivery, in medieval rhetorical and grammatical treatises, and exemplifies the evidence of Chaucer&#039;s concern with rhetoric and performance in CT--in the Host&#039;s remarks to the Clerk, the role-playing of the Pardoner, and the apostrophes of the NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors, addressing topics such as rhetorical tradition, accessus, and handbooks, especially their influence on Middle English literature. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262201">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Romance and Feminine Difference in &#039;The Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[While critics have recently emphasized classicizing influences, KnT&#039;s portrayal of courtship, its enigmatic heroine&#039;s resistance to courtship, and the marvels in Diana&#039;s temple should be understood in light of romance conventions.  Chaucer&#039;s deliberate generation of illogicalities--as opposed to the more coherent &#039;Teseida&#039;--demonstrates the &quot;romance sensibility&quot; that contributes to KnT&#039;s &quot;treatment of gender, justice, and order.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269828">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates how medieval romances have shaped heterosexual gender roles, studying the role of language in constructing sexuality. In close readings of TC, MilT, and MerT, Sylvester analyzes &quot;transitivity&quot; and maps dialogue between male and female characters, particularly in scenes in which characters meet and in which intercourse is initially offered. Forceful heterosexual masculinity is required for heterosexual intercourse to occur in fabliau and romance. Includes discussion of rape in medieval romance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the aesthetics of medieval romance in light of the philosophies of G. W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, exploring and explaining the &quot;pleasurable seriousness&quot; (for modern and medieval audiences) of the &quot;Lais&quot; of Marie de France, Jean d&#039;Arras&#039;s &quot;Melusine,&quot; &quot;Sir Orfeo,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; TC, and several of the CT. Reads Troilus&#039;s final perspective in TC as from an &quot;epistemically possible world,&quot; backdrop to his experiences of Criseyde as a woman who seems to come &quot;from a different world&quot; (as Melusine does). FranT presents the beauty of romance, WBT subjects the genre to serio-comic investigation, ClT threatens it with allegory, and CYT undermines its transformative possibilities.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Romance: Themes and Approaches]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the plots and concerns of medieval romances, especially those produced in France and England, seeking to characterize the genre and demonstrate its &quot;pervasiveness&quot; in medieval culture. Identifies a number of recurrent motifs, including idealization of love, concern with God and supernatural events, personal identity, and anti-naturalism. Cites Chaucer&#039;s works throughout with sustained attention to KnT, FranT, WBPT, and, most extensively, TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline. Volume 2: Literature and Philology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirty-two essays by various authors, sketching the biographies   and intellectual achievements of scholars who have helped shape medieval studies. Of greatest interest to Chaucerians are the essays on Frederick J. Furnivall (by Derek Pearsall), Walter William Skeat (Charlotte Brewer), George  Lyman Kittredge (John C. McGalliard), and John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert (Elizabeth Scala).]]></dcterms:description>
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