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Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
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The Canterbury
Tales in Middle English
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The Canterbury
Tales in Translation
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General
Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
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Sources,
Analogues, & Related Texts
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Online Notes &
Commentary
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Online Articles
& Books
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Student Projects
& Essays
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Online
Bibliography
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Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
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Images &
Multimedia
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Audio Files &
Language Helps
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Potpourri
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Additional
Resources
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Scholar's
Dozen
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What's New? Recent Additions to the ECT
Web Resources by Tale
Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue &
Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale
Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The
Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
The Retraction
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
Troilus
and Criseyde
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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf
I saw a specialty t-shirt
recently that I really liked. It read: "I study medieval literature
because that's where the money is."
Scholars don't make much
money, and probably our biggest expense is getting a hold of the
books that make our research possible. Google and Microsoft have both
recently initiated digitization projects to make out of copyright
books more widely available on the web. These volumes are also
downloadable (and rather large), usually in .pdf format.
You can certainly do your
own searching, but I'll try to do some of the legwork as well, and link
to those titles that I think still have critical viability.
I'll also cross-list the
recommended Google Books and Microsoft titles on the appropriate webpage throughout the Electronic
Canterbury Tales under
Online Articles
& Books (on the expanded Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page) and also detail them on the webpages devoted to specific Canterbury Tales or associated
pages).
This will be an ongoing
project, so check back periodically for new finds!
Free Books! (sorta)
Selected
Titles from the
Google Library Project &
Microsoft Live Search
While
many of these titles are quite old, don't be fooled--just as many are
still cited in the critical literature (especially names like Skeat,
Furnivall, Kittredge, Pollard). These studies are also valuable for the
way in which they shaped the field of Chaucerian and medieval
studies.
The titles I've noted with a 
are especially noteworthy. I've tried to cull here
the most pertinent. The links will take you either to the appropriate
Google or MSN webpage, where you can download the entire text as
a .pdf file. If you chose to reference any of these
texts, be sure to check the title pages for full
documentation information.
PLEASE NOTE that some of
the pages on some of the scans are imperfect
or the pages out of order, especially (it seems) with the titles
digitized by Google. As a service to the online community, conscientious
users could inform Google (or Microsoft) when they find imperfections in
the scans.
Complete (or near
complete) Texts of the Canterbury Tales
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Pollard, Alfred W., ed.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (New York: Macmillan, 1907).
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Skeat,
W.W, ed.
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, 1894).
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---, ed.
The Eight-text Edition of the Canterbury Tales: The Classification
of the Manuscripts and upon the Harleian Manuscript 7334.
(London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1909).
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---, ed.
The
Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works.
(Oxford, 1897).
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Tyrwitt, Thomas, ed.
The Canterbury Tales: A New Edition. Illus. Edward Corbould.
(London, 1867).
Manuscripts and Related
Studies
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Cromie, Henry.
Ryme-Index to the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales. (London: N. Trübner, 1875).
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Furnivall, Frederick J.,
ed.
The Harleian Ms 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (London: N.
Trubner, 1885).
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---.
A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales, Part I. (London: N. Trubner, 1868).
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Koch, John.
A Detailed Comparison of the Eight Manuscripts of Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales. (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, and
Co., 1913).
Canterbury
Tales (individual or groups)
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. The
Clerkes Tale: With Life, Grammar, Notes, and an Etymological
Glossary (London, 1888).
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Furnivall, Frederick James.
A
Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales, Part 1 (London, 1868).
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Furnivall, Frederick
James and R. E. G. Kirk.
Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage. (London: Kegan
Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1903).
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Ingraham, Andrew, ed. Geoffrey
Chaucer's the Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury.
(New York, 1902).
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M'Leod, Prologue
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with Explanatory Notes, a Glossary,
and a Life of the Poet. (London, 1871).
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Koch, John.
The Chronology of Chaucer's Writing.
(London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, and
Co., 1913).
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Liddell, Mark H.
The Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales,
the Knightes Tale, the Nonnes Prestes Tale (New York: Macmillan,
1908).
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Pollard, Alfred W., ed. Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales: The Prologue (New York, 1924).
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---, ed.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale.(London:
Macmillan, 1921).
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Skeat, W.W, ed.
The
Prioresses Tale, Sire Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the
Squieres Tale. (Oxford, 1880).
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---.
The Evolution of the Canterbury Tales. (London: Kegan
Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1907).
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Thynne, Francis. Animaduersions
Uppon . . . Chaucer,,
ed. G.H. Kingsley (London, 1865).
Other Chaucer Works
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Furnivall, Frederick
James, ed. A
One-text Print of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde from the Campsall
Ms. of Mr. Bacon Frank (London, 1888).
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---, Trial-forewords
to My "Parallel-text Edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems".
(London, 1871).
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Root, Robert K, ed.
The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus. (London: Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trubner, 1914).
General Chaucerian &
Medieval Studies
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Ellis, Alexander John,
et al. On
Early English Pronunciation (London, 1869).
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Corson, Hiram.
Index of Proper Names and Subjects to Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales. (London: Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trubner, 1914).
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Hamilton, George Livingstone.
The Indebtedness of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde to Guido Delle
Colonnes Historia Trojana. (New York: Columbia UP, 1903).
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Jewett, Sophie. English
Literature: Chaucer (London, 1896).
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Ker, William Paton. Essays
on Medieval Literature (New York, 1905).
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Lounsbury, Thomas. Studies
in Chaucer: His Life and Writings (New York, 1892).
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Morris, Richard, ed. The
Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [Tyrwhitt] (London, 1851).
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Skeat, W.W.
The Chaucer
Canon, with a Discussion of the Works Associated with the Name of
Geoffrey Chaucer.
(Oxford, 1900).
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Chaucerian and Other Pieces (Oxford, 1897).
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---.
The Evolution of the Canterbury Tales. (London: Kegan
Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1907).
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---, ed.
The
Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, 1866).
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---, ed.
Treatise
on the Astrolabe (London, 1852).
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Snell, Frederick John.
The Age of
Chaucer,
1346-1400. (London: G. Bell, 1901).
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Spurgeon, Caroline F. E.
Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900).
Part II, sec. i. (London: London: Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trubner, 1918).
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Sweet, Henry.
Second
Middle English Primer. (London, 1902).
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ten Brink, Bernhard
Aegidius Konrad. The Language and Metre of
Chaucer.
(New York: Macmillin, 1901).
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Ward, H. Snowden.
The Canterbury
Pilgrimages. (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904).
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Wise, Boyd Ashby.
The Influence of Statius Upon
Chaucer.
(Baltimore: J. H. Furst, 1911).
Other Medieval Authors
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Beatty, Arthur.
A New Ploughman's Tale: Thomas Hoccleve's Legend of the Virgin and
Her Sleeveless Garment. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner,
1902).
Any work using
older studies should be supplemented by the most recent
academic work.
I'll also cross-list these
titles under Online
Articles and Books on the appropriate Canterbury Tale(s) or other
webpage within the Electronic
Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer Titles from eCampus.com
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Additional
Chaucer Pages in The Electronic Canterbury Tales
Chaucer the Pilgrim-Narrator & Author
Chaucer's "Orphan" Pilgrims
- Those without a Tale
The
Frame Tale, Later Continuations,
&
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Manuscripts,
Printed Editions, & Electronic Texts
Electronic
Chaucer Texts:
What's Available Online?
Chaucer
in / and Popular Culture
Troilus
and Criseyde
Documentation Primer
Chaucer Pedagogy Page
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Major Medieval Conferences Websites
International
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