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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
14. The Scholar's Dozen -
Quality Web Resources
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The Online Chaucer Bibliography (Mark E. Allen, UT
San Antonio) is from Studies in the Age of Chaucer and the New
Chaucer Society. Another excellent project. Searchable by keyword and
other Boolean terms.
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The Chaucer Review: An Indexed
Bibliography, vols. 1-30 (Peter Beidler, Lehigh U. & Martha Kalnin, Baylor
U). Originally published as the April 1997 issue
of Chaucer Review and now put into html, this website provides a
searchable list of all of the nearly 800 articles that have appeared in
Chaucer Review,
and, more important, a subject index to all of those articles.
Excellent, and an invaluable resource.
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The Essential Chaucer (Mark E. Allen, UT San
Antonio and John H. Fisher, UTennessee).
This selective, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies from
1900-1984 is divided into almost 90 topics, including themes, techniques, and individual
works by Chaucer. An invaluable starting point. See
the Table
of Contents
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The best single site devoted to the Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales, The Harvard Chaucer Page, is a
tutorial in itself, brought to the WWW by Larry D. Benson, gen. ed. of
The Riverside
Chaucer. Check the Index for
easy access to the wealth of primary and secondary material there.
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Paul
Halsall's consummate Internet Medieval
Sourcebook (Fordham U) offers a wealth of primary historical and cultural texts
(from older print sources) and
commentary on its numerous sub-pages. Comprehensive, and unsurpassed for medieval studies.
See, for example, The
'Calamitous' Fourteenth Century.
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TEAMS Middle English Text
Series (Russell Peck, URochester) houses a number of lesser known and
hard to find medieval texts in helpful student editions. A generous and fascinating
selection not to be missed! Each selection includes a scholarly introduction
and full notes.
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Michigan's
Corpus of Middle
English Prose and Verse has a large number of important primary texts,
often older Early English Text Society volumes. The new editions also boast
an upgraded search engine (Paul Schaffner & Perry Willett, UMichigan). Most
important for Chaucer studies are the Chaucer Society editions of important
early manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (edited by the
indefatigable Furnivall).
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The Middle English Collection of
the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
includes searchable editions of a number of important ME texts (generally from older
editions without the critical apparatus).
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The
Middle English Dictionary is online at the UMichigan site. You have
to access the individual password month by
month - but shhhh! Don't tell anyone! That'll keep it free.
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A real boon for scholars, the
Canterbury Tales Project (Peter Robinson, U of Birmingham) has
generously made available a series of articles and working papers
describing the CTProject in detail.
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From Barbara Bordalejo (Canterbury Tales Project - DeMontfort U), a fully
searchable online edition of Caxton's two printed editions of the
Canterbury Tales: Caxton's
Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies.
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The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval
Studies (Kathryn Talarico, gen. ed.) "is an academic site, written and
maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow
instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by
at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of
accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies."
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For a
peer-reviewed, academically sound evaluation of online Chaucer resources, see the links
and annotations at the Chaucer Metapage
project (gen. eds. Joe Wittig, UNC & Edwin Duncan, Towson State U).
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.
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.
I welcome your
suggestions for suitable websites. Please be patient as
I tune the search terms.
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
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An Excellent, Inexpensive, One-Volume Original Language Edition of the Canterbury Tales
Jill Mann's new Penguin Edition
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
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!
Looking for Calls for Papers?
Call
for Papers database from the University of Pennsylvania CFP listserv
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Studies Library for Pennies on the Dollar!
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