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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Foxes, Fables, and Felons: Animals before the Law in the Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues &quot;that medieval writers of beast literature probed the limitations and possibilities of defining legal personhood, thus exposing the boundary between humans and nonhuman animals to be not merely blurry,  but permeable.&quot; Includes discussion of NPT, investigating &quot;issues of vocal legal authority following the 1381 Uprising in England.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing in the Tragic Mode.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores relations between medieval written depictions of tragic events in history and &quot;fictional tragedies,&quot; commenting on a range of texts, and assessing how, in MkT, &quot;Chaucer seems to suggest . . . that there is a difference between reporting a series of events that are tragic and writing in a tragic mode.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Yfallen out of heigh degree&quot;: Chaucer&#039;s Monk and Crises of Liminal Masculinities.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines conflicts between secular and religious notions of masculinity in the Monk&#039;s description in GP and in MkPT, showing that they depict the Monk&#039;s &quot;inability to abide by the expected behaviours of his vocation&quot; and expose him to ridicule by the Host and other pilgrims in ShT, PrT, Th, and NPPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Unnoticed Manuscript Fragment of Jan van Boendale&#039;s &quot;Melibeus&quot; in the National Archives.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies and gives codicological information about Exchequer Records of the King&#039;s Remembrancer in The National Archives at Kew, E 163/22/2/24, a portion of Jan van Boendale&#039;s Dutch translation of Albertanus of Brescia&#039;s &quot;Liber consolationis et consilii,&quot; and an analogue of Mel.<br />
]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ventriloquizing Mothers: Chaucer&#039;s Poetic Authority in the &quot;Tale of Melibee&quot; and the &quot;Manciple&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Positions Mel and ManT as &quot;vivid examples of Chaucer&#039;s polyphonic authority that highlight the rich network of gendered speech constituting his mature voice.&quot; Argues that Chaucer&#039;s ventriloquized women in Mel and ManT translate continental sources into English ones.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Shakespeare and &quot;his fellow dramatists . . . consciously  revived . . . non-dramatic forms of medieval culture . . . in order to challenge the new constraints placed on public dissent by Tudor and Stuart absolutism&quot; and affirm &quot;the power of the powerless.&quot; Includes discussion of the &quot;continuity in Christian attitudes to Jews&quot; in PrT, &quot;The Merchant of Venice,&quot; and Christopher Marlowe&#039;s &quot;The Jew of Malta,&quot; exploring their similarities in depicting &quot;anxieties about Christian involvement in a money economy&quot; associated with Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pets.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews medieval disapproval of pet-keeping among religious personnel as evidence that companionship with animals has a long history and that medieval &quot;pet-love&quot; can &quot;help us to unthink the human.&quot; Comments on pet-slayings in versions of the international &quot;Canis legend&quot; and, positing that the love of animals in the GP description of the Prioress is sincere, argues that it reflects a queer version of community, one that prompts us to (re)consider our own.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ethics, Antisemitism and &quot;The Prioress&#039;s Tale&quot;: A Reparative Approach.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a psychoanalytical reparative reading of PrT, focusing on PrP, the conclusion of the tale, and various intertexts (Psalm 8; the &quot;Alma Redemptoris Mater&quot;; and Dante&#039;s &quot;Purgatorio,&quot; XXXIII), unpacking interplays between utterance and intention; Mary and the &quot;regressive fantasy of an ideal mother&quot;; and law, mercy, antisemitism, and the Jews in the tale, who &quot;are the properly human subjects of ethical choice.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Spitting Images: Embodying Theories of Disgust in &quot;The Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a pedagogical exercise for teaching PrT in a way that provokes students&#039; confrontation with issues of personal disgust and engagement with the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Countrefete Cheere&quot;: Kitsch, Taste, and &quot;The Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses kitsch as a &quot;counter aesthetic&quot; that results from a &quot;failed dialectic of beauty and ugliness,&quot; and explores the Nazis&#039; &quot;Anti-Kitsch Law,&quot; Theodor Adorno&#039;s aesthetic theory, the Prioress&#039;s &quot;countrefete cheere&quot; and sentimentality, the gore and antisemitism of PrT, and the critical reception of the tale. Argues that PrT &quot;exposes the form that makes . . . anti-Semitism and its stories enjoyable: the aesthetics of kitsch and death.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lies, Puns, Tallies: Marital and Material Deceit in Langland and Chaucer.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes Langland&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;tally-tale-tail&quot; puns in &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; and ShT, clarifying medieval understandings of signification, polysemy, equivocation, deception, economic value, and misogyny. Unlike Lady Mede, who is trapped in a &quot;loop of polysemous equivocations&quot;&quot; the merchant&#039;s  wife in ShT recognizes &quot;the mercantile, circulatory structures that ensnare her and use[s] them to pursue her own pleasures.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Trinity College Dublin MS 347 and a Possible Source for Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Shipman&#039;s Tale,&quot; VII 11–19.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers evidence for the source for the opening of the ShT, connecting it with Gilbertus Minorita&#039;s &quot;Dictinctiones&quot; and its quotation of then-contemporary vernacular poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[El control de los cuerpos en &quot;The Physician&#039;s Tale&quot; y &quot;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale,&quot; de Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores interrelations among youth, old age, virginity, and chastity in PhyT and WBPT as they &quot;reveal the links between eroticism and control over bodies.&quot; Includes an abstract in English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Hybrid and Mimic Identities: Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s Franklin in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the Franklin as a &quot;hybrid and mimic who is caught in between the medieval acknowledged identities of the commoners and the nobility,&quot; striving upward, and searching for &quot;for a recognisable identity&quot; in his changing medieval society. Includes an abstract in Turkish.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Which was the mooste fre&quot;: Chaucer&#039;s Realistic Humour and Insight into Human Nature, as Shown in &quot;The Frankeleyns Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seeks to answer the &quot;demande d&#039;amour&quot; of FranT (1622), first eliminating Dorigen and the magician from consideration of who is most &quot;fre,&quot; and then arguing that Aurelius and Arveragus have effectively equal claim to be named--a complicated balance &quot;not untypical&quot; of Chaucer. Compares Chaucer&#039;s version with analogues in &quot;Sanskrit Vetula-stories&quot; and Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filocolo.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Scabs and Sovereignty in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the figure of the &quot;sursanure&quot; in FranT, demonstrating that this superficially healed wound is an apt metaphor for Chaucer/s soft or &quot;sunken&quot; sources.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Possibilities of Medieval Fiction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on marvels in medieval literature, and argues that medieval readers appreciated indeterminacy of the marvelous. Some attention to FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Body in Wonder: Affective Suspension and Medieval Queer Futurity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes &quot;premodern theories of affect rooted in humoral theory and faculty psychology,&quot; and explores the affects of wonder and shame in FranT as well as its queered futurity, focusing on Aurelius&#039;s brother, who occupies &quot;the position of the fourth-person singular&quot; and the &quot;space of singular vitality,&quot; and who &quot;offers wonder as a mode of maximum attention that queers thinking and feeling.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Who Could Tell the Joy that Is between a Husband and His Wife? Feeling with the Good Wife in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the struggles of Dorigen in FranT as a kind of conduct literature for wives, as Dorigen&#039;s pain in Arveragus&#039;s absence is linked to &quot;two contemporary French conduct texts--&#039;Le Livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry&#039; (1371) and &#039;Le Mesnagier de Paris&#039; (1394).&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Ycrammed ful of cloutes and of bones&quot;: Chaucer&#039;s Queer Cavities.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces Chaucer&#039;s uses of purses and other cavities in PardPT as sites of queer reproduction. Throughout, &quot;locates the &#039;purs&#039; as a gendered, sexualized, and economized site of social exchange.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Resisting Sex and Species in &quot;The Squire&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reassesses the role and value of the falcon and the mechanical horse in SqT. Demonstrates through these depictions that SqT creates &quot;interspecies and intrasexual relationships of care outside of the gendered human norms of chivalric romance.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Flying, Hunting, Reading: Rethinking Falcon–Woman Comparisons.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes how the &quot;tension between control and release&quot; in premodern falconry is &quot;salient for feminist approaches to representations of gender when birds stand in for women&#039;s sexual bodies,&quot; exploring the implications of associations between women and hunting birds in medieval art and literature, and concluding with discussion of how a &quot;feminist poetics&quot; emerges from consideration of the interaction between Canacee and the falcon in SqT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Compassion and Benignytee&quot;: A Reassessment of the Relationship between Canacee and the Falcon in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Squire&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;bond&quot; between Canacee and the falcon in SqT is &quot;grounded in the theme of female friendship&quot; although seen from the &quot;avian perspective&quot;--an &quot;intersectional&quot; approach that &quot;interprets Canacee as avian, rather than the falcon as humanlike.&quot; Treats the tale as something of a &quot;sequel&quot; to PF, even while the Squire reveals himself to be &quot;decidedly uncomfortable with women on an individual level.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Crusader Ethics: Youth, Love, and the Material World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how late medieval &quot;anxieties over the corruption of chivalry&quot; and criticism of the morals, motives, and conduct of crusaders&quot; are reflected in the pairing of the GP descriptions of the Squire and Knight, and in KnT and SqT. Argues that &quot;Chaucer&#039;s critique of crusaders is not . . . effected through the Knight, but through the Squire,&quot; evident in comparisons with romances and treatises about the crusades, including that of Henry Despenser.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gathers secular and religious travel narratives of England <br />
 and France. The volume is divided into three sections: critical essays; twenty-six texts, or excerpts, from narratives, including SqT; and supporting bibliographies.]]></dcterms:description>
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