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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex and the Penitentials: The Formation and Transmission of a Sexual Code, 550-1150]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the development of sexual codes in the Penitentials, treatment of a wide variety of sexual behavior became more and more sophisticated in reaction to actual practice.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex im Mittelalter: Die Andere Seite einer Idealisierten Vergangenheit. Literatur und Sexualität.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys depictions of sexual activities and attitudes toward them in the literature of medieval Europe. Includes a brief life of Chaucer and recurrent comments on his works (see the Index), with a summary description of sexuality and scatology in MilT as a fabliau.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex Roles and the Role of Sex in Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys depictions of sexuality in Old and Middle English literature, commenting on love and sex in Chaucer&#039;s works, especially in the fabliaux.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex, Aging, and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, Its Text, Language, and Scribe]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edition and comprehensive study of Trinity College, Cambridge, MS  R.14.52, which was produced by the Hammond scribe. Includes five essays by various authors on physical features of the manuscript, an edition in ten sections by various editors, topical discussion of each section, a glossary of medical  terminology, and an index to the discussions. Recurrent references to Chaucer, especially his medical and scientific  knowledge. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Sex, Aging, and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex, Money, and Prostitution in Medieval English Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Karras surveys depictions of female commercialized sex in the English late Middle Ages. It is difficult, she suggests, to separate kinds and degrees of prostitution, because prostitution was regarded as an &quot;extreme case&quot; of the general sinfulness of female sexuality. Chaucerian examples include the Wife of Bath and the wives in ShT, CkT, and ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex, Plague, and Resonance: Reflections on the BBC &quot;Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the BBC television adaptation of PardPT concentrates more on sexual predation than on death, and argues that this eliminates both the sexual and the contextual queerness of Chaucer&#039;s original, which requires of its audience &quot;rigorously trained self-awareness that its contextual queerness makes difficult or impossible to feel secure in.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex, Sense, and Nonsense: The Anal Erotics of Early Modern Comedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Stockton discusses the &quot;critique of cynical reason&quot; in CT as part of a larger psychoanalytical discussion of the role of comedy in the formation of the foundations of civilizations.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays explores British medieval sexuality and sexual expression in literature.  Examines fabliaux and romances of Chaucer, Gower, and Malory; alchemical texts; and satirical poetry of William Dunbar.  The Introduction (pp. 1-11) describes the essays included, and compares the &quot;sexual landscape&quot; of George R. R. Martin&#039;s &quot;Song of Ice and Fire&quot; and HBO&#039;s series &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; with articulations of medieval erotics and sexuality. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexual Economics, Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath turned the sexual economics of her time to her advantage.  Margery Kempe could not so capitulate.  Religion became her way of asserting ownership of herself.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in Sheila Delany, Writing Women: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern (Schocken, 1984), 76-92, and in Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson, eds., Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature (Routledge, 1994), 72-87.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexual Innuendo in the &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that double entendre &quot;invests the entire narrative action&quot; of RvT, explicating individual puns and demonstrating the prevalence of the sexual implications of flour, milling, and grinding throughout the tale and in later works by John Heywood and Shakespeare. Not evident in the French source of RvT, these sexual innuendoes underlie its theme of &quot;poetic justice.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270599">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Expansive commentary on western art and literature, including the assertion (pp. 171-72) that Edmund Spenser established English literary tradition by &quot;abandoning Chaucer and eradicating his influence,&quot; particularly his &quot;populism.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexual Poetics and the Politics of Translation in the Tale of Griselda]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Campbell applies Judith Butler&#039;s theories of performative gender identity and &quot;cultural translation&quot; to ClT and its sources in Petrarch and Boccaccio. In Chaucer&#039;s version, authority is translated to the vernacular and to oral discourse, challenging to Petrarch&#039;s version but nevertheless asserting masculine authority over feminine texts and bodies.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexual Politics in &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&#039; and &#039;Tale&#039;: The Rhetorics of Domestic Violence and Rape]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[WBPT can be seen as Alison&#039;s &quot;therapeutic&quot; attempts to &quot;educate the public at large&quot; about domestic violence and rape. Although she succumbs at times to the rhetoric of &quot;the woman as commodity&quot; and misunderstands herself as &quot;unrapeable,&quot; Alison vindicates women.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269822">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pugh theorizes &quot;the compulsory nature of queerness in creating heterosexuals,&quot; exploring how a number of masculine characters in Middle English literature are &quot;rendered queerly normative due to external forces that reimagine their masculinity as little more than a phantastically inadequate performance.&quot; Individual chapters discuss the Dreamer in &quot;Pearl,&quot; the Host in CT, Walter and the audience in ClT, the protagonist of &quot;Amis and Amiloun,&quot; and that of &quot;Eger and Grime.&quot; The discussion of the Host was previously published in 2006 (see SAC 30 [2008], no. 167).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages / by Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasset]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the history of the search for appropriate terminology for sexual matters and of concepts of physiology; medicine and the art of love in the troubadours, Andreas Capellanus, and &quot;Roman de la Rose&quot;; freedom; guilt; and disease.  Mentions Trotula of WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Original French ed., 1985.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexuality and Self-Recognition in &#039;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the theme of homosexual advances and rejection in the conclusion of PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexuality, Obscenity, and Genre in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale&quot;: The Case of Fabliau.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the generic features of the fabliau, and explores how and what extent the MerT fulfills and overturns these features in its plot, diction, biblical allusion, and courtly conventions, also commenting on interpolations in two manuscripts. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Seyd in Forme and Reverence : Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eighteen essays by various authors; a professional biography of Emerson Brown, Jr.; and a list of his academic publications. For individuial essays, search for Seyd in Forme and Reverence under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shades of Incest and Cuckoldry: Pandarus and John of Gaunt]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides historical evidence that if Pandarus was guilty of incest with Criseyde, he was also guilty of cuckolding Troilus.  Similarly, if Gaunt had cuckolded Chaucer, he would not have been able to able to marry Chaucer&#039;s wife&#039;s sister, Katherine Swynford, although the &quot;sororal&quot; relation between Katherine and Philippa Chaucer was posited only in the sixteenth century.  Includes Boniface IX&#039;s letter of dispensation for Gaunt and Katherine.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shades of Love in the &quot;Parlement of Foules.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the varieties of love in PF, describing how the initiating concern with heavenly love in the summary of Scipio&#039;s dream is recalled and reinforced through the structure and details of the poem, conveying the need for &quot;caritas,&quot; &quot;common profit,&quot; and&#039;or theological love among human beings, if not among birds.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines allusions to the Virgin Mary in connection to five literary characters: Chaucer&#039;s Constance and Wife of Bath, the medical woman of the English &quot;Trotula,&quot; Saint Margaret of Antioch, and the &quot;Pearl&quot; maiden. Chapter 1 focuses on parallels between Constance and Mary in relation to law and to death that is not realized. Chapter 2 argues that the Wife of Bath and Mary reflect each other in an inverse relationship through narrative techniques and motifs. Chaucerian works discussed include MLT, WBPT, and ABC. Bibliography and index.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shadows of the Law: Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law&#039;s Tale, Exemplarity and Narrativity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Parallels between Mary and Constance exist not only in details but also in narrative strategy, since both women are subject to the complexities and contradictions of the exemplary mode. In addition, Constance is presented through metaphors of death, revealing the limits of law and the Man of Law&#039;s narrative capacity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shakespeare Adapting Chaucer: &#039;Myn auctour shal I folwen, if I konne&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Shakespeare&#039;s adaptations relied not only on understanding and knowing Chaucerian texts, but on his &quot;memory of Chaucer &quot; and Chaucerian ideas and practices, particularly his mingling of &quot;sources and authorities&quot; in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shakespeare and Chaucer: &#039;What Is Criseyde Worth?&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s dialogue, poetic &quot;stage directions,&quot; and expansion of the wooing scene make his TC more &quot;Shakespearean,&quot; or dramatic, than Shakespeare&#039;s treatment of the story.  Chaucer&#039;s heroine is brilliantly drawn to show her inner movement from true lover of Troilus to faithless mistress of Diomede; Shakespeare&#039;s Cressida changes as her &quot;value,&quot; determined by outside forces, changes with the conditions of exchange in war.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer explores the change in Criseyde as an aspect of humanity; Shakespeare sees it as tied to Renaissance and late-medieval economic thought.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shakespeare and Chaucer: Dream Visions and Dramatic Designs.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that in &quot;Cymbeline,&quot; &quot;The Tempest,&quot; and &quot;The Taming of the Shrew,&quot; Shakespeare sets his work in conversation with the dream visions BD and HF, thereby allowing Shakespeare to claim a place in the Chaucerian line of English canon and to challenge Ben Jonson&#039;s arguably greater claim.]]></dcterms:description>
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