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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Mariology of the &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Theologically, the Blessed Virgin is highly venerated, with &quot;hyperdulia,&quot; but she is nevertheless only a means to the one mediator, Christ (1 Tim. 2.5), who is worshiped with &quot;latria.&quot;  This distinction, most unusual for a work of literature, is a major theme of PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marital Dilemma in &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039;: An Unnoticed Analogue and Its Chaucerian Court Context]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A ballade by Eustache Deschamps poses a &quot;demande d&#039;amour&quot; similar to that of the Loathly Lady in WBT, wherein a courtier is required to render judgment on a question of love.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264723">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marketing of Printed Books in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the careers of Caxton, de Worde, and others to show (amid much else) that their interest in publishing Chaucer and other vernacular writers can be correlated with a &quot;movement from opportunistic diversification...to forms of consolidation and diversification involving a pragmatic approach to sharing and developing particular markets.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marquis of Saluzzo and the Marquis of Dublin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies possibilities for recognizing &quot;political resonances&quot; in ClT, discussing Walter&#039;s title (marquis) as it was granted in 1385 to Robert de Vere, Richard&#039;s favorite. The title was &quot;unusual&quot; and &quot;short-lived&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s experience. Olson summarizes de Vere&#039;s career and notes points of comparison with Walter.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriage &#039;Encomium&#039; in the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: A Chaucerian Crux]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rhetorically nearer to exhortation than to encomium, the didactic structure of this passage (4.1267-1392) rises in a series of contradictions that confuse doctrines and undercut ironic perceptions.  None of the proposed assignments of the passage resolves the problematical aspects of this anomaly, which may point toward an incomplete stage of revision.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriage Contract of the &#039;Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;: The Remaking of Society]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Though some readers have seen the contract in this tale as evidence of Chaucer&#039;s acceptance of the male&#039;s dominance in marriage, the relationship of Dorigen and Arveragus is actually an ideal society in miniature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272781">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriage Costs of Chaucer&#039;s Friar]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers corroborative evidence from Rutebuef&#039;s &quot;Frère Denise&quot; that Chaucer&#039;s Friar &quot;provided money to marry off girls he had himself seduced.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274417">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriage Group: Precarious Equilibrium.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges the putative &quot;simple and even balance&quot; of the Marriage Group in CT, discussing several factors that highlight Chaucer&#039;s &quot;purposeful inconclusiveness&quot; in the dramatic interplay among the Tales: 1) MerT and FranT are each an &quot;attack&quot; on the merchant in ShT; 2) the Squire responds pointedly to the &quot;cutting sarcasm&quot; in MerT; and 3) FranT undercuts its own ideals, as does the Host&#039;s response to this Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263748">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriage Irony in the Tales of the Merchant and Franklin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer uses enfolding irony in MerT and FranT to examine the good marriage, with insights on courtly love and adultery through shifting perspectives and character conflict.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272045">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriage Journey: Dream Vision Romance Structures and Epithalamic Conventions in Medieval Latin and French Poems and in Medieval English Dream Poems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s dream poems in the context of  &quot;epithalamic conventions&quot; found in medieval French dream poems and their sources, exploring similarities of &quot;structure, imagery, and theme.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275347">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriages and Wealth of the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores medieval English marital laws and practices that underlie details of the WBP and her description in GP, particularly her marriages at &quot;chirche dore,&quot; her dowers, and the transaction that gave Jankyn control of her lands--before she took it back.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272829">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Masculine Narrator and Four Women of Style]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores suggestive ambiguities in the characterizations of Emily in KnT, May in MerT, Criseyde in TC, and the Prioress in GP, considering narrative techniques, points of view, and ways that Chaucer adapts and manipulates the ideal of a romance heroine.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269825">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines frames of cultural reference (legal, domestic, physical, and literary--especially romance), arguing that &quot;two versions of masculinity defined the socially performed lives of men in late medieval England.&quot; The first version was normative and stabilizing, based on trust and honesty among males.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The other--more &quot;rebellious, aggressive, sensual&quot;--coexisted with the first, creating tension between exterior social performance and internal desire. Neal discusses several Middle English romances and refers at times to Chaucer&#039;s RvT, Pardoner, and Parson.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271715">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Masks of Love in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how Dante and Petrarch provide a &quot;schema for understanding&quot; the modifications Chaucer made to the view of love in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato.&quot; The &quot;Vita Nuova&quot; offers a &quot;hierarchy of love,&quot; analogous to that in TC even though Chaucer may not have known Dante&#039;s work. A more direct influence on Chaucer, &quot;Patrarchist&quot; formal conventions recur in TC and, moreover, the poem reflects Troilus&#039;s progress from such formulas (associated with Pandarus and, at times, with Criseyde) to a more fully &quot;Petrarchan&quot; comprehension of the nature, dangers, and value of love.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Master Mined and Mimed: Shakespeare&#039;s Use of Chaucer in &#039;The Two Noble Kinsmen&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Despite some unenthusiastic criticism and even denial of his authorship of parts of the play, Shakespeare adapts KnT faithfully, reorienting its topicality, redesigning it for the stage, and broadening its focus.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274164">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matrix Reeve-Loaded I: Dismantling Biases and Evaluating Diagrams of Relationships between Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Reeve&#039;s Tale,&quot; &quot;The Mylner of Abyngton,&quot; and Other Cradle-Trick Stories.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents the first of two successive articles on RvT and its analogues. Claims that &quot;The Mylner of Abyngton&quot; has not drawn as much critical attention as it deserves. Compares &quot;The Mylner of Abyngton&quot; with three continental analogues and discusses their possible implications for Chaucer&#039;s composition of RvT.<br />
]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277502">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matrix Reeve-Loaded II: A Comparative Analysis of Three European  olktales and Their Relationship to &quot;The Mylner of Abyngton&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Reeve&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes three European folktales (Breton, Danish, and Irish) within the &quot;miller-plot&quot; subgenre, comparing them to RvT, &quot;The Mylner of Abyngton,&quot; and other stories to highlight their shared features and deeper connections. Suggests that these folktales may have influenced literary versions through cross-pollination, challenging rigid distinctions between narrative strands such as &quot;love plots&quot; and &quot;miller plots.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264772">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matter of Araby in Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[English scholars played an important part in transmitting Arabic learning to Europe.  The &quot;matter of Araby&quot; may be set alongside the matters of Troy and Britain as an impulse in medieval English literature.  It appears in Chaucer&#039;s MLT, Th, and the astronomical works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267691">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matter of Armenia in the Age of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the political history of the fall of Armenia in 1375, surveying its impact on the court of Richard II and its status as a &quot;haunting symbol&quot; of catastrophe in Middle English literature. Discusses SqT, Anel, the description of the Knight in GP, MkT, MLT, &quot;Bevis of Hamptoune,&quot; &quot;The King of Tars,&quot; and other works. Levon VI, the toppled king of Armenia, sought a truce between England and France (perhaps prompting the 1387 negotiations in which Chaucer participated), promoted by Philippe de Mézières as a means to regain the Holy Land from Islam.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271462">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matter of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that Chaucer&#039;s romances, including KnT, MLT, WBT, SqT, FranT, Th, and TC, &quot;exhibit . . . interest in adversity, or philosophical or religious contempt&quot; for suffering as a primary theme.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262651">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matter of Courtesy: A Study of Medieval Courtesy Books and the &quot;Gawain&quot;-Poet]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A reading of the &quot;Gawain&quot;-poet&#039;s works in light of medieval ideals of social behavior as represented in courtesy books.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matter of Israel: The Use of Little Children in the Miracles of the Holy Virgin During the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares PrT with Gonzalo de Berceo&#039;s thirteenth-century &quot;Judiezno&quot; (Little Jewish Child) from his &quot;Los Milagros de Nuestra Seʹora.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Featuring a Jewish child who has a vision of Mary, Berceo&#039;s tale reflects a more tolerant attitude toward Jews than does Chaucer&#039;s. The attitude in Berceo&#039;s tale is consistent with Spanish social history.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matter of Virtue: Women&#039;s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates &quot;premodern &#039;vertue,&#039; or the embodied excellence that enables women&#039;s ethical action in vernacular English poetry between 1343 and 1623.&quot; Focuses on &quot;material virtue&quot;--the &quot;natural potencies of physical bodies&quot;--rather than on habit-, volition-, or rule-based ideas of virtue, exploring how this material perspective &quot;changes what it means to be human,&quot; particularly as evident in representations of &quot;female excellence&quot; in literary characterizations, medieval to early modern. Includes discussion of women in conduct literature, saints&#039; lives, and romances, with particular attention to select works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Henryson, Lydgate, and Chaucer (TC, LGW, MLT, and ClT).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Meaning of &#039;Chevyssaunce&#039;: Complicated Word Play in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Shipman&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that in three places in the ShT--lines 1519-21, 1536-37, 1581--Chaucer exploits two denotations of &quot;chevyssaunce.&quot;  In addition to the specific denotation &quot;usury,&quot; the word has a more general denotation--MED meaning 2--which, when applied solves the problem of why Chaucer departed from his analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Meaning of &#039;Incest&#039; in the &#039;Confessio Amantis&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[MLP and other comments suggest that late-medieval readers were &quot;disconcerted&quot; by Gower&#039;s repeated treatments of incest.  Examination of his poem reveals him (through Genius) turning Amans from the incestuous love of Venus and Cupid to pure heavenly love.]]></dcterms:description>
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