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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rotheley, the De Vere Circle, and the Ellesmere Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although Ellesmere ownership in the fifteenth century cannot be proved, a preponderance of evidence indicates association with Bury St. Edmunds and a family circle that included the Pastons, Drurys, and De Veres, suggesting a context within which the manuscript was used.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Particularly important is the largest entry on the flyleaves, Rotheley&#039;s poem honoring the De Veres (&quot;Index&quot; 1087), a transcription of which follows in an appendix.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Absolon&#039;s rejection of Alison&#039;s sexuality in MilT suggests the kind of masculinity invoked by Mariology and by popular representations of the Annunciation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268257">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rough Love: Notes Toward an Erotics of The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A &quot;bodily economy of piercing men and pierced women&quot; can be found throughout CT. Lovemaking is associated with cutting, stabbing, bleeding, and dying. The only accounts of lovemaking not connected to stabbing or bloodletting occur in the musical interlude of MilT and at the end of WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rough Music in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Briefly surveys the carnivalesque folk tradition of charivari in medieval literature and assesses MerT in light of it, especially the description of the marriage between January and May, the musical imagery, and the inexpressibility topos.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267414">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rough Music: : Popular Culture in The Miller&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Miller&#039;s bagpipe in GP epitomizes MilT, setting the pace for the pilgrimage and offering the rough justice of popular music as a human alternative to God&#039;s arbitrary judgment in the combat of KnT. The Miller questions the hegemony of vested respectability and encourages range and variety.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261313">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Royal Charter Witness Lists, 1327-99]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses historical reliability of witness lists as evidence of magnate activity and relationship to the crown.  Provides tabular inventory of witnesses and percentage of charters witnessed by year.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rubrication in Caxton&#039;s Early English Books, c. 1476-1478.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the various kinds of rubrication in copies of books printed by Caxton, 1476-78, including his first edition of CT and his Bo, suggesting that, after printing, the &quot;additional task of rubrication was carried out in an organized manner before books were passed on to buyers or readers.&quot; Includes eight color plates.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265195">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ruddymane and Canace, Lost and Found: Spenser&#039;s Reception of Gower&#039;s &#039;Confessio Amantis&#039; 3 and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Gower&#039;s tale of Canace, the Man of Law&#039;s reference to the account, and the narrative treatment of the character Canace in SqT, arguing that Spenser fused them in his Canace.  In his second (1596) edition of &quot;The Faerie Queene&quot; Spenser diminishes his debt to Gower and reflects the Squire&#039;s desire to evade social and poetic threats from the bourgeois pilgrims.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rude Mechanicals and Minotaurs: Shakespeare and Chaucer Among the Mythographers]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Storm surveys the debt to Chaucer&#039;s KnT in Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream,&quot; focusing on the works&#039; mutual concern with hierarchy and order. In both works (and elsewhere in the authors&#039; works), the figure of the Minotaur (parodied in Bottom&#039;s transformation) represents the counter principles of disruptive lust and chaos. Storm also comments on Pasiphae in WBP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277497">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ruler Stakes: Chaucer&#039;s Theseus, Agamben, and the Rivals to Sovereign Power.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses Giorgio Agamben&#039;s discussion of &quot;homo sacer&quot; to argue that the &quot;bare life&quot; of imprisonment for Emelye, Palamon, and Arcite in KnT serves Theseus&#039;s sovereignty. Justifying exceptions to previous rulings, Theseus maintains his power through rhetorical effectiveness as well as conquest.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269760">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rum, Ram, Ruf, and Rym: Middle English Alliterative Meters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cole contends that metrical groupings of works from the &quot;Alliterative Revival&quot; are faulty and that these groupings reflect inappropriate application of phonology common in the &quot;poetic dialects&quot; of Chaucer and Gower.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rumour and Renown: Representations of &quot;Fama&quot; in Western Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the meaning of Middle English &quot;fama,&quot; derived from the Latin, in relation to the spoken word. Chapter 15, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039; and Pope&#039;s &#039;Temple of Fame&#039;,&quot; analyzes relations between the spoken and written word in these poems, as well as other dichotomies within Chaucer&#039;s poems, including truth and rumor as Chaucer compares his dream of Dido and Aeneas with Virgil&#039;s version. Discusses how both Chaucer and Pope engage with the Latin and Greek traditions and examines Pope&#039;s homage to Chaucer, as well as his divergence from Chaucer&#039;s text.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265426">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Run Silent, Run Deep: Hereesy and Alchemy as Medieval Versions of Utopia]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys utopian attitudes, including alchemy.  CYT reflects Chaucer&#039;s awareness of the &quot;genuinely subversive thrust&quot; of alchemy as an alternative to Pauline-Augustinian orthodoxy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271587">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rymyng Craftily: Meaning in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A series of five case studies in cloxe reading that demonstrate Chaucer&#039;s skill with prosodic and rhetorical devices; includes an appendix that defines and exemplifies &quot;figures of style&quot; (pp. 236-42). Chapter 1 contrasts the stylistic virtuosity of PF with the &quot;unsatisfactory&quot; poetry of Anel. Chapter 2 assesses the stylistic differences between the narrator and various &quot;minor characters&quot; in TC; chapter 3, the stylistic variety of KnT; chapter 4, the &quot;poetic subtlety&quot; of FranT and the ways that it is more successfully integrated into CT than is ManT. Chapter 5 discloses how the stylistic &quot;pyrotechnics&quot; of NPT convey gentle mockery of rhetorical writing as a branch of learning.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacral and Biblical Parody in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Parody is the key to understanding the relation between Chaucer&#039;s comedy and Christianity.  Through parody Chaucer achieves high seriousness and high comedy.  Parody of sacral sign and symbols in PardT and Marriage Group produces poetry that can be read allegorically to promote Christian charity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacrament and Sacrifice in the &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes critics&#039; attention to the Eucharistic references in PardT and explores how the Eucharist and the Mass as a reenactment of sacrifice underpin a number of details and images in the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacramental Signification: Eucharistic Poetics from Chaucer to Milton.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues &quot;that in early modern England the primary theoretical models by which poets understood how language means what it means were applications of<br />
eucharistic theology.&quot; Opens with discussion of PardT, SumT, and Pearl &quot;in the context of the debate between nominalists and realists,&quot; focusing on their &quot;playful and creative eucharistic poetics&quot; as precursors to early modern examples.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274825">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacraments, Gender, and Authority in the &quot;Prioress&#039;s Prologue and Tale&quot; and &quot;Pearl.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that although &quot;Pearl&quot; and PrPT treat the Eucharist as orthodox, they nonetheless evoke religious debates concerning Lollardy and, relatedly, continental female mysticism. Argues that both the works feminize sacramental work, preach in ways that particularly parallel the life of St. Birgitta of Sweden and female Lollard instructors, and champion vernacular Scripture.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265238">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacraments, Sacramentals, and Lay Piety in Chaucer&#039;s England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemporary documents concerning aspects of liturgical life indicate that the people of Chaucer&#039;s time were a &quot;fervent laity served by a fervent clergy,&quot; notwithstanding the adulterous monk of ShT and Chaucer&#039;s corrupt Pardoner, Summoner, and Friar.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270730">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, a commentary on Fleming&#039;s critical legacy by Steven Justice, and a bibliography of Fleming&#039;s publications. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature under Alternative Title. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred and Secular Exegesis in the Wyf of Bath&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The sources for the Wife of Bath&#039;s performance as exegete--and the authorities she cites in her &quot;Tale&quot; (in particular Ovid,for the Midas story)--make clear that the underlying theme and conflict in WBPT concern &quot;surface and substance, letter and spirit.&quot;  Other interpretive starting points, such as realism or misogyny, operate as subsets of this dynamic.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261704">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred and Secular in the Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ClT is not a religious tale but a secular story &quot;enriched with religious symbolism.&quot;  The Tale is domestic, not cosmic; there is no indication of a providential plan; God is only evoked twice; Griselda&#039;s vow is clearly secular; and her reward is reconciliation with her family, not sainthood or recompense in heaven.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred and Secular Scripture: Authority and Interpretation in &#039;The House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Aeneas story as cliche is appropriate for the poem&#039;s subject:  fame.  The fame of Aeneas was important in Christian historiography, but ambivalent because of his betrayal of Dido.  Biblical language and allusion rather than &quot;the story of Troy or its panoply of typologies&quot; point to the chief questions of HF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262635">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Using a new critical method, Heffernan examines the characteristics of the saint&#039;s life, sacred biography as historical narrative, important works and collections in the tradition, medieval attitudes toward virginity and chastity,rhetoric and the oral tradition, and the frequency of sexual assault on female saints, as found in the tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred Commerce: Chaucer, Friars, and the Spirit of Money]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Epstein argues for a nuanced understanding of money in SumT, reading its significations in light of the thirteenth-century Franciscan treatise &quot;Sacrum commercium,&quot; medieval commercial practice, and deliberations on quality and quantity among the &quot;Oxford Calculators&quot; of fourteenth-century Merton College. Focuses on the &quot;long denouement&quot; of SumT and its underlying concerns with spirituality.]]></dcterms:description>
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