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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Englishing the Virgin: Enclosure, Dissemination, and the Early English Book.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies how &quot;the Virgin Mary and her followers, especially women living the enclosed life . . . occupied a central role in the development of the early English book,&quot; discussing works ranging from LGW, WBPT, and Mel to Richard Tottel&#039;s&quot; Songes and Sonnettes&quot; (1557). Argues that &quot;In his tales related to &#039;good women,&#039; Chaucer develops an authorial persona consistent with Marian devotional practices.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Chaucer&#039;s World&quot; Study Days in Oxford for Post-16 Students: Enhancing Learning and Encouraging Wonder.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collaborative reflection on the presentation and value of a study-days enhancement program called &quot;Chaucer&#039;s World,&quot; designed both to help UK secondary education students prepare for the A-level English Literature exam and to increase appreciation of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19&quot; in a series of four essays, arranged chronologically, with an introduction, conclusion, and comprehensive index. Chapter 2, titled &quot;The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the Pandemic: Jews and Other Scapegoats in Fourteenth-Century European Culture,&quot; identifies &quot;anti-Semitism as a generic feature of plague writing in the late fourteenth century,&quot; including but not limited to PardT and PrT, with consistent associations between Jews and heretics, pollution, and filth. Connects Chaucer&#039;s works with a range of visual and verbal texts; includes 17 color illustrations.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Book Lover&#039;s Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Illustrated tourist information pertaining to British writers and their works, arranged by geographical area, including introductions to sites associated with Chaucer: his tomb in Poets&#039; Corner, his window in Southwark Cathedral, the Tabard Inn, and Canterbury Cathedral.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Trevisa&#039;s Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers John Trevisa&#039;s translations of &quot;compendious&quot; encyclopedic texts as examples of a prose literary form that is an influential part of a late medieval literary history, an &quot;alternative&quot; to the better-known tradition of Trevisa&#039;s poetic contemporaries--Chaucer, Gower, and Langland.  Addresses Trevisa&#039;s works as a distinct kind of text and a way of processing, organizing, and presenting information, exploring antecedents and descendants, and at points exemplifying differences from and similarities to works by Chaucer and others. The index includes nine citations of Chaucer, but he is also mentioned elsewhere in the book.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shaping Absurdity in Medieval Romance: &quot;Reductio ad absurdum&quot; as Narrative Structure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;reductio ad absurdum&quot; in &quot;theology and romance texts of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries,&quot; including discussion of Chaucer&#039;s uses of it as &quot;a marker of generic resistance to chivalric romance&quot; in KnT and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Twisting Lines: Genealogy and Legitimacy in Fifteenth-Century English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;evolving discourses of gentility . . . served as models&quot; for Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, and Henry Medwall, inspiring them &quot;to write, variably, about socio-linguistic reform . . . and meta-literary reflection on the impact of newly enfranchised voices.&quot; Explores the &quot;relationship between social and linguistic mutability&quot; in Sted, Gent, and WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thinking Fantasies: Visions and Voices in Medieval English Secular Writing.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Exemplifies ways in which medieval &quot;romance writing takes up the notion that physiological processes and exterior influences can interweave to produce powerful psychological experiences,&quot; showing how the &quot;creative possibilities of interweaving the supernatural with psychology&quot; are found in Chaucer&#039;s works: BD, HF, PF, KnT, NPT, and TC, with comments on PhyT, MLT, and SNT. Focuses on dreams, but not exclusively.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes various depictions of breath, breathlessness, and &quot;vital spirits&quot; that signal deep emotion in medieval literature, including comments on BD, TC, and KnT, among other courtly and religious works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses issues of disease, medical practice, faith, household remedy, and gender in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century Middle English &quot;medical discourse,&quot; often found embedded in or juxtaposed to broader works, including narrative poetry that engages to greater or lesser degrees the Black Death. Chapter 1, &quot;Honoring Stories of Illness in Chaucer,&quot; focuses on the poet&#039;s generally oblique references to plague in CT and on instances where &quot;dialogue and storytelling&quot; initiate or engage with the topic of physical or spiritual healing, considering especially the GP Physician, PhyT, Mel, PardPT, KnT, and NPT; also assesses other works]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Avant la lettre&quot;: Philip Perry, Reconversionist Aesthetics, and the Medieval Literary.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits that Philip Perry, an eighteenth-century priest and early practitioner of medievalism, was a pioneer in using original sources, among them Chaucer. Perry&#039;s unpublished notebooks contain detailed information on many medieval writers and their work, including Gower, Lydgate, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and others. Focuses on the fact that Perry believed Chaucer, like Langland, was a satirist of Church practices, not a heretical writer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers relations between moral virtue and courtly love in a variety of Chaucer&#039;s works and Scottish Chaucerian works, analyzing a series of pairings--Rom and William Dunbar&#039;s &quot;Golden Targe,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s Boethian poems and &quot;The Kingis Quair,&quot; HF and Gavin Douglas&#039;s &quot;The Palis of Honoure,&quot; PF and Dunbar&#039;s &quot;The Thrissill and the Rois,&quot; and TC and Robert Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid&quot;--that comprise a study of love and virtue in Chaucer&#039;s works and his influence on early Scottish literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Opens with commentary on oldness in KnT, MilT, and RvT, and proceeds to assess old age as a source &quot;of debility and impairment as well as authority and veneration&quot; in Scog, Adam, the Reeve&#039;s description in GP, RvPT, and WBT. Disability studies and narrative as prosthesis recur as concerns in analyzing these works along with &quot;Parlement of the Thre Ages&quot;; &quot;Wynnere and Wastoure&quot;; Hoccleve&#039;s &quot;Regiment of Princes&quot; and &quot;La male regle&quot;, and Caxton&#039;s printings of them; and the role of Gower in Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Pericles.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277042">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Archival Iceberg: New Sources for Literary Life-Records.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Highlights the amount of potential material in The National Archives as compared to more traditional repositories for high-value manuscripts. Considers approaches to find and use this material with new examples for Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Landscape in Middle English Romance: The Medieval Imagination and the Modern World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;ways in which medieval British romances conceived of ecological contexts&quot; and identifies a &quot;range of economic, religious, and social values attached to landscape&quot;--hills and mines; seashores and beaches; and foreign, domestic, and fantastic territories--in a wide variety of popular romances and in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot; Includes ecocritical comments on the &quot;seashore as a space for play and false narrative&quot; in FranT and a space of economic possibility and exploitation in MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Introduction: Chaucerian Resonances in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare and Beyond.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses and combines various attempts to define Chaucerian &quot;resonance&quot; as a term of intertextuality and the reception of Chaucer; also summarizes each of the twelve essays included in this special number of Comparative Drama. For summaries of the essays, search for Comparative Drama 55 under Journal by Volume Number.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thoughts on Directing NEH Canterbury Tales Seminars for Secondary School Teachers, 2008–2014.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes and assesses NEH K-12 Seminars for high school teachers pertaining to CT and held in London, 2008–14; reflects on 2014 legislation that discontinued funding for such programs held outside the USA; and encourages future collaboration between university and secondary school educators.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277038">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;Middle English lyric writing before and after Chaucer, assessing its evolving relationship to the Continent&quot; and interactions between sacred and secular within the genre. Analyzes Chaucer&#039;s (and his successor&#039;s&quot;) uses of French lyric formes fixes, and assesses the &quot;cross-fertilizations&quot; of courtly sentiments, religious verse, and liturgy in Middle English lyrics.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277037">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how Chaucer&#039;s life and literature were &quot;embedded in European contexts,&quot; even as he &quot;ostentatiously displays the Englishness of his poetry.&quot; Comments generally on Continental and English aspects of Chaucer&#039;s style and content, and examines how they combine in the details, form, and matter of WBPT, characterizing the Wife herself as, in many ways, &quot;a product of north-western Europe specifically, rather than Europe as a whole.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirty-seven essays by various authors on the forms, borders, networks, writers, and texts of medieval English, along with modern critical approaches, with an introduction by the editors (on &quot;Trans-European and Global Contexts&quot;), a timeline, and comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, Arguing &quot;in good feyth.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Chaucer&#039;s attitude toward the Boethian notion that &quot;right reasoning alone should guarantee rhetorical success.&quot; Mirrored in Chaucer criticism and inflected by issues of gender and point of view, &quot;objectivity,&quot; effective persuasion, and literary intention are, for Chaucer, largely matters of an audience&#039;s predispositions. Assesses these concerns in Bo, WBP, ManT, TC, SNT, Mel, and PF, and comments on poststructuralist and feminist approaches to Chaucer studies.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces medical, historical, sociological, and literary aspects of various infectious human diseases, including addiction, illustrated with sidebar facts, literary examples, and photographs and reproductions. A chapter on &quot;The Black Death&quot; includes a brief life of Chaucer--with a photograph of his statue (and bas-relief of pilgrims on its plinth) in Canterbury, by Sam Holland and Lynne O&#039;Dowd, erected in 2016--and commentary on CT, especially the Pardoner and his Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Toward a Supreme Fiction: Dante, Chaucer and the Dream of the Rose.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses the &quot;rise of first-person fiction in the later Middle Ages,&quot; including discussion of CT, BD, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;other dream poems.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Engages several literary and anthropological theories of gifts, and addresses related motifs of reciprocity, generosity, promising, and exchange in medieval English texts, especially romances. Individual chapters assess &quot;King Horn&quot;/&quot;Horn Childe&quot; narratives, the Auchinleck manuscript and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; KnT and TC (gifts, gender, pledging, and praying), FranT and ManT (promises, speech acts, bodies, and the unpredictability of exchange), and Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book&quot; as a narrative of gifts and as a gift book in Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS English 1.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ge.offrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Part of Paravicini&#039;s three-volume study of the crusades against Lithuania undertaken by the Teutonic order, focusing on literary backgrounds to the chivalric imagination underlying the crusades. Includes evidence of tensions between crusading and courtly ideals, quoting the GP description of the Knight and passages from KnT, FranT, MkT, Th, and BD, each with German translation.]]></dcterms:description>
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