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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Morphology of Meaning in the Earliest Indian and European Narrative Discourses.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts early narratives of India and Western Europe, theorizing a &quot;morphology&quot; of relations among characterization and character development, narrative mode, and meaning. Includes discussion of differences between the conceptualizations of humanity that underlie CT (especially KnT) and the &quot;Pañcatantra.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Morris&#039;s Compromises: On Victorian Editorial Theory and the Kelmscott Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Morris&#039;s decision to present Chaucer&#039;s works in &quot;clear-text&quot; format (without editorial apparatus) conflicts with Victorian theories of editing. Yet, his presentations of Ret and the envoy to TC belie his efforts to imitate medieval traditions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270288">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Morris&#039;s Poetry: From &#039;Guenevere&#039; to &#039;Sigurd&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the originality and success of William Morris&#039;s poetry, commenting in passing that &quot;The Lovers of Gudrun&quot; is written &quot;in the rather casual couplet form which Morris derived from Chaucer&quot; (37), even though he fails to exploit the &quot;variety&quot; of the form as successfully as Chaucer does (40).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272505">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;literary negotiation of the macabre aesthetic in Middle English literature.&quot; Chapter 2, &quot;The Progress of the Dead: From Body to Revenant,&quot; discusses &quot;&#039;physical&#039; return of the dead&quot; in BD and PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264123">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Morwe of May: A Season of Feminine Ambiguity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In KnT, May symbolizes the future promise of Emelye&#039;s love.  In LGW strong emphasis on women and love is tied to men&#039;s ability to judge them.  May, the season most likely to obscure these judgments, is a metaphor for fulfillment of love&#039;s promise.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264407">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Moses, Elijah and the Back Parts of God: Satiric Scatology in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Summoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer employs scriptural allusions in Thomas&#039;s gift and its codicil; typological exegesis demonstrates that, if Jankin&#039;s division of the fart suggests Pentecost, Thomas&#039;s first gift recalls the events in the lives of Moses and Elijah that Pentecost fulfills.  SumT can be seen as an intentional perversion of scriptural history.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268911">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Most conservatif the soun&#039; : Chaucer&#039;s Troilus Metre]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines manuscript evidence and compares the verse of TC with that of Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato,&quot; arguing that Chaucer&#039;s decasyllabic lines, adapted to rhyme-royal stanzas, are characterized by greater flexibility of caesura than in English four-stress verse and by more varied syllable numbers and stress patterns than in strict iambic pentameter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276539">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Motherhood and Power in Middle English Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;the complex role of maternal power as it relates to male aristocratic identity&quot; in several romances in Middle English, including MLT and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270198">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts PrT with Damián de Vegas&#039;s &quot;Memoria del Santo Niño de La Guardia&quot; (1544), exploring mother figures in the works and arguing that the latter work (like Spanish tradition more generally) reflects the influence of the &quot;converso,&quot; a hybrid figure who blurs Christian/Jewish boundaries.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266892">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Motherhood in the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers medieval family structures, attitudes toward sexuality, and marital practices to argue that the Wife of Bath &quot;almost definitely had no children.&quot; Unlike Margery of Kempe, she may have been sterile.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271532">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mothers of Exile: Gender and Identity in Medieval Narratives of Foundation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Custance of MLT to be an exception to the medieval stereotype of the barbarous female founder of a society.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269588">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mothers, Mystics, and Merrymakers: Medieval Women Pilgrims]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys &quot;some of the many roles played and influences exerted by women in the practice of medieval pilgrimage,&quot; considering literary texts and cultural contexts from the fall of Rome until Margery Kempe and the Paston women in the fifteenth century. References to Canterbury and to Chaucer recur throughout, with one chapter dedicated to discussion of the &quot;wayward, over-experienced&quot; Wife of Bath and the &quot;corrupted innocence&quot; of the Prioress as examples of Chaucer&#039;s efforts to expose contemporary corruption.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274855">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Motion in Late Medieval English Literature: Impulse, Randomization, and Acceleration.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies physical motion, readerly motion, and other motions related to texts in late medieval English literature, including a chapter on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;engagement with motion as a concept in natural philosophy&quot; in HF and PF, connecting it with the physics of William of Ockham.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264196">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Motivation in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;: Winner Take Nothing]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The complex relationships of Pardoner, audiences, and the Host reveal a character who simultaneously believes in the efficacy of pardon and in the foolishness of those who believe in it.  The pilgrims laugh at him rather than being outraged, and he accepts their continued company, together with the kiss of peace.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264646">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Motivation of Pandarus in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Whatever his name may suggest, Pandarus was himself a true lover, holding love and friendship, though subject to the vicissitudes of Fortune, as the highest human values.  Endowed with social grace and committed to friendship, Pandarus pretends not to realize that his friend&#039;s love affair is ended until Troilus himself gains that insight.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265319">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Motives for Pilgrimage: &#039;The Tale of Beryn&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the motives for pilgrimage implied in Beryn and CT, comparing them with the urge to &quot;darshan&quot; (&quot;seek the deity&quot;) in Hindu tradition.  The motives of the fictional pilgrims are more genuinely spiritual than has been argued by some critics.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277542">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mourning Becomes the Duchess: Chaucer, Text, Tomb.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Chaucer&#039;s BD in the context of the material and ritual aspects of Blanche&#039;s death, using Freud&#039;s concept of the work of mourning to address the public, political, social, and economic work of John of Gaunt&#039;s mourning. A revised version of an address to the Canadian Society of Medievalists delivered in 2014.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265989">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the history and hagiography of St. Cecilia, plus her status as patron saint of music. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Examines the iconography of the saint, especially as depicted in Raphael&#039;s altar piece, arguing that it reflects the &quot;mourning-into-joy&quot; motif that expresses the &quot;soul&#039;s passages between vice and virtue as a flux of the contrary passions of joy and sadness.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Summarizes the iconographic contrasts between SNT and CYT and examines Chaucer&#039;s Cecilia in opposition to idleness, explaining her &quot;work&quot; as a figure of spiritual change.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274213">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;male bereavement in medieval literature,&quot; particularly &quot;the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males&quot; in Chretién&#039;s &quot;Yvain,&quot; &quot;Trewe Man,&quot; &quot;Sir Orfeo,&quot; &quot;Pearl,&quot; and BD. In the latter, Chaucer expresses &quot;not universal understanding of another&#039;s grief, but universal understanding that loss and grief exist, and a plurality of understandings of what loss and grief are, why we suffer them, and how they feel.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268226">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Movement Towards the Semantic Unity of the Modal Auxiliaries in Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde: The Fusion of Their Root and Epistemic Senses]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the fusion of the root and epistemic senses of modal auxiliaries such as &quot;mot&quot; / &quot;moste,&quot; &quot;may&quot; / &quot;myghte,&quot; &quot;shal&quot; / &quot;sholde,&quot; and &quot;wol&quot; / &quot;wolde&quot; in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[MS C.U.L Gg.VI.16, corrections Lollardes d&#039;un texte orthodoxe?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores whether there is a distinctive Lollard vocabulary. While the usual method is to identify words in Lollard writings that would not be used in orthodox literature, the author highlights the absence of some orthodox words and sees what words have replaced them.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263444">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[MS Harley 7334 and the Construction of &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Harley scribe preserved the structure of Chaucer&#039;s original, revealing Chaucer&#039;s intent to structure CT according to a numerical series that the thirteenth-century Lombard mathematician Fibonacci used to describe the geometrical increase of a rabbit population.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263086">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[MS Pepys 2006: A Facsimile, Magdalene College, Cambridge]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats contents and history of the volume bequeathed to Magdalene College by Samuel Pepys.  The first of the two manuscripts in the volume preserves texts of LGW, ABC, HF, Mars, Ven, For, PF, and several non-Chaucerian works.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The second manuscript is exclusively Chaucerian with texts of Mel, ParsP, ParsT, Ret, Mars, Ven, Anel, For, Scog, ABD, Purse, Truth, and MercB.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262825">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[MS Trinity R.3.19]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A miscellany of verse (mostly secular) in Middle English, including PF, LGW, Pity, and MkT.  Provides evidence of various scribal practices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261246">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Much Ado about Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Verbal echoes, connections of character, and other allusive possibilities suggest relationships between Shakespeare&#039;s Much Ado About Nothing, and TC and parts of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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