The Electronic Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer Online:
The Electronic Canterbury Tales

Daniel T. Kline | U of Alaska Anchorage | Chaucer Pedagogy | CV

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Troilus and Criseyde
2: 1751-52

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Electronic Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page

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

An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

12. Potpourri

Although a commercial site, billyandcharlie.com, specialists in pewter, has affordable and lovely modern reproductions of pilgrim badges and ampullae from medieval Canterbury, including:

I receive no royalties from billyandcharlie.com sales, unfortunately.

The Medieval Fiefdom Website (Thinkquest) is a graphics rich site that takes advantage of the latest web technologies (VRML, etc.) to help especially younger students visualize the material and social culture of the Middle Ages. Very nice.

Using a clickable map and 500 webpages, Peter Collinson's Canterbury Tour presents a virtual geography of Canterbury that places the viewer in the midst of town by offering both "front" and "back" views of the different locales. Another excellent resource for making the place of Chaucer's Tales come alive.

Read about the most expensive book in the world: Caxton's first edition of the Canterbury Tales (c. 1476-77) was auctioned at Sotheby's for $7.5 million in July 1998!

Geoffrey Chaucer & Co., an acting troupe, "is pioneering the staging of ALL 24 Canterbury Tales . . . fully enacted in modern English. Tailor fit original music underscores each theatrical piece by Bay Area award-winning composer John Geist."

See a page by page digitization of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, retold by Katharine Lee Bates, illus. by Angus MacDonall (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1914) at the Making of America site (UMichigan).

See the The Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf for recommended texts from Google Book Search& Microsoft Live Search.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar indexes academic material but doesn't yet make all of that material available. In most cases, you'll have to access your own institution's electronic databases and library materials to get the full text versions.

Because it does not make full texts available, at this point Google Scholar is best used as a bibliographical resource.

Google Book Search & Microsoft Live Search

These projects are also showing their growing pains, but they make a number of (primarily) older studies related to Chaucer and medieval literature and culture in full text. You can contribute to the success of this effort by informing Google or Microsoft of any incorrect scans, missing pages, or other errors.

Search Google Book or Microsoft Live Search

Only out-of-copyright books are available in full and some of the scans are messy. I will cross list the relevant titles at the Electronic Canterbury Tales - Online Books and Essays main page and at the appropriate web page for each Canterbury Tale.

Google Custom Search

You can search for handpicked websites related to Chaucer and medieval culture as recommended by ECT users.

The Kankedort Medieval Studies Search Engine

I welcome your suggestions for suitable websites. Please be patient as I tune the search terms.

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An Excellent, Inexpensive, One-Volume Original Language Edition of the Canterbury Tales

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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,
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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

Something Extra?

Free Books!
The Poor Medieval Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf

(no cost, older academic books,
in .pdf form from the
Google Library Project &
Microsoft Book Search Live)

Cheap Books!
The Electronic Canterbury Tales Bookshop

(recommended books for the study of Chaucer and Late-Medieval England)

The Kankedort
Gift Shoppe

(with many serious and some silly offerings for the medievalist
in your life)

Check out Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, well, just because. And, no, it ain't me. And, no, I don't get a piece of this either, but I like it!