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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Concept of the Proverb in Middle English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The first English citations for the word &quot;proverb&quot; come from Chaucer&#039;s works, in which the word appears twenty-six times. Chaucer uses the word primarily in its modern and most common sense of &quot;traditional folk sayings&quot;; however, he also uses it with less common meanings in works such as WBP and Buk.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276063">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conceptual Construal of &quot;Me Trouthe&quot; in the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: The Juxtaposition of Chaucer&#039;s and Contemporary English Worldviews.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes uses of the lexemes &quot;trouthe&quot; and &quot;soth&quot; in CT, comparing them with &quot;truth&quot; in present-day English. Shows that, associated with love, light, and wisdom, Chaucer&#039;s &quot;trouthe&quot; differs from his &quot;soth&quot;: the former resides in an abstract semantic field, dealing with matters of fidelity and promises; the latter, with facticity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273823">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Concern of Chaucer&#039;s Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Chaucer criticism produced between 1950 and 1964 and, treating Chaucer&#039;s work as a &quot;single fiction,&quot; reads it as a &quot;complex examination of what it means to love&quot; in earthly and spiritual ways. An &quot;abyss exists between&quot; the two kinds of love, but &quot;one can go from here thither.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275812">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of &quot;Love&#039;s Labour&#039;s Lost.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the year-long delay in marriages at the end of Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Love&#039;s Labour&#039;s Lost&quot; may have been influenced by the similar delay in PF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts Troilus&#039;s ascent through the spheres at the end of TC and the narrator&#039;s comments on it with the analogous materials in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; and &quot;Teseida&quot; (with nods to Dante and Christian liturgy), explaining Troilus&#039;s placement among the fixed stars and exploring the combination of his joy and sorrow in his new-found perspective. Throughout the poem, Chaucer expresses &quot;the divine blessedness of human love.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Legend of Lucrece&#039;: Robert Holcot and the Great Faith of Women]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Holcot is a source for the conclusion of &quot;Lucrece&quot;:  his &quot;In Librum Sapientie&quot; includes (1) the statement, not in the Gospels, that Christ found greater faith in women than in men, and (2) a catalogue of pagan good women including Lucretia and others in LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267265">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale : Readings and (Mis)Readings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Late-medieval versions of CYT 8.1428-81 misread and/or misrepresent the text as an authority on alchemy, a reflection of a pervasive admiration of Chaucer as a man of science. Not until Enlightenment debunking of alchemy did scholars recognize these lines as Chaucer&#039;s attack on alchemy as false science.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275794">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of the Marriage Group: Chaucer and the Human Condition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews medieval ideas of degrees or grades of perfection, particularly as related to virginity as the &quot;highest form of chastity&quot; and marriage, a compromise even when admirable as in FranT. PhyT and SNT, both of which may follow FranT in the order of CT, offer ideals of absolute chastity and chaste marriage respectively, with SNT offering a religious alternative to the Franklin&#039;s secular view of matrimony.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274946">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion to Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that members of the &quot;School of Christian Interpreters&quot; err when seeing the transcendent ending of TC as implicit throughout the poem, and evaluates the actions of Troilus and Criseyde in terms of courtly love and the operation of Fortune, attributing perceived inconsistencies in the ending of the poem to be due to the narrator&#039;s &quot;lack of sophistication.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271584">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Condition of Creatures: Suffering and Action in Chaucer and Spenser]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the commonplace theme of &quot;agere et pati&quot; (to act and to suffer) in the works of Chaucer and Spenser, especially KnT and books 1-4 of Spenser&#039;s &quot;The Faerie Queene,&quot; exploring oppositions between deed and emotion, action and passion, and agency and patience. In KnT, the active Theseus learns to espouse sufferance, and the imagery of constraint enforces the need for human forbearance in the face of cosmic determinism. Generally, Chaucer&#039;s works emphasize patience, compromise, and other forms of acceptance without undue struggle (bargains, treaties, promises, and games), perhaps a reflection of his political life.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264587">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conduct of the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s language snares the reader into displaying bad taste.  It accomplishes this by making May a sympathetic character and by allowing the reader to belong to a select group which sees through the deceptions of the tale.  However, the reader&#039;s good sense eventually is freeing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272086">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conflict between Art and Morality in Two Fourteenth-Century Poets: Juan Ruiz and Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses ambivalence, conventional morality, and the functions of art in CT and in Juan Ruiz&#039;s &quot;Libro de Buen Amor,&quot; commenting on the role of the narrator in Chaucer and the &quot;staging&quot; of multiple views on &quot;caritas&quot; and &quot;cupiditas&quot; in both works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269161">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Confusion Between &#039;Thurven&#039; and &#039;Durren&#039; in Middle English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Molencki traces the phonetic and semantic conflation of &quot;dare&quot; and&quot; tharf,&quot; once distinct verbs, now obsolete. Scribal errors contributed to the obsolescence of &quot;tharf&quot; and its replacement with the more flexible OE &quot;neden.&quot; The essay draws examples from WBP, SumT, Mel, ParsT, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261626">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses canonical doctrine about sexual relations in marriage as it was understood between the twelfth and mid-fourteenth centuries--an era in which scientific jurisprudence came of age.  Makowski focuses on the concept of conjugal debt, referring briefly to the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275442">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Connell Guide to Chaucer&#039;s The Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes CT with recurrent attention to major critical approaches. Focuses on several recurrent themes (&quot;how we come to know something&quot; and the &quot;interpretation of authority&quot;), with sustained discussions of GP, KnT, MilT and RvT, WBPT, FranT, PardT, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;use of language.&quot; Includes several side-bar topics, illustrations in b&amp;w and color, a brief chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an index.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266870">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conquest of Femenye: Desire, Power, and Narrative in Chaucer&#039;s Knight&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As the Miller refuses to allow easy closure to KnT, so the Tale&#039;s opening is rooted in the uneasy conquest of Femenye. Throughout the Tale, patterns that suggest resolution fail to reach their hoped-for conclusion, indicating the ongoing nature of desire and conflict.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265338">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Consequences of &#039;Treuth&#039;: Reading Two Versions of the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The &quot;presentational features&quot; of MS HM 140 (prose format, absence of ClP, reduction of multivoiced discourse) transform its &quot;mode of signification from performance to textuality,&quot; suggesting history and truth.  This presentation radically alters the &quot;message(s)&quot; of ClT, which elsewhere suggests that women &quot;are in the vanguard of the struggle for equity in earthly institutions.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265038">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Consolation of Alison: The Speech Acts of the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Since the speech acts of Alison consist of arguing, insisting,challenging, and confiding, the message is that she is always struggling against the givens of her world.  She is Lady Philosophy &quot;manque&quot; since her views of behavior are hardly proper and her arguments are self-defensive harangues rather than logical persuasions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261454">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Consolation of Pandarus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pandarus is based to a certain extent on the character of Philosophy in Boethius&#039;s Consolation, and his Troilus resembles Boethius.  Troilus&#039;s change during the poem can be attributed to the fact that &quot;he has experienced the consolation of Pandarus.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266663">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Consolation Tradition and the Text of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Boece&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the textual tradition of Bo in light of the twelfth- to fifteenth-century textual tradition of Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy,&quot; suggesting that the best text of Bo is Cambridge University Library ii.iii.21.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274101">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Consolations and Conflicts of History.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the influence of Boethius and Boccaccio on Chaucer&#039;s depiction of the Monk in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276521">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Constraints of Justice and Gower&#039;s &quot;Lawyerly Habit of Mind.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines John Gower&#039;s consideration of the &quot;appropriate purpose and use of incarceration, including comparison of his Tale of Tereus&quot; in the &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; with Chaucer&#039;s analogous account in LGW. In Gower, imprisonment precedes the rape of Philomena and continues afterward, a &quot;custodial function of removing her from the social world&quot;; in Chaucer, imprisonment &quot;suggests a continuation of the violation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277705">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Construction of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;General Prologue.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Admires the structural patterns of GP--seven groupings, significant juxtapositions, alterations of detail and generalization, etc.--suggesting that they produce &quot;a poetic realization of plenitude and diversity,&quot; underpinned by a concern with &quot;degree&quot; and various ironies and satiric touches. Draws examples from individual descriptions and from the broader pattern of introduction, followed by a &quot;pageant&quot; of details, and a &quot;kind of epilogue.&quot; Views the &quot;whole structure&quot; of GP as &quot;a sort of medieval bridge.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269623">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Construction of Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[There is a paucity of writing on indulgences in medieval vernacular literatures. Minnis explores depictions of pardoners and indulgences in PardP, Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman, &quot;and John Heywood&#039;s &quot;The Foure PP&quot; and &quot;The Pardoner and the Frere.&quot; Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner is best understood as &quot;an aberrant quaestor,&quot; a lay usurper of the powers granted only to members of the ecclesiastical major orders.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269571">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Construction of Identity in Middle English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses MLT, among other works, to show that in Middle English romance, with its limited expression of characters&#039; inner lives, identity is expressed and revealed through &quot;external signs,&quot; outward behavior, and immutable &quot;key characteristics.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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