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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
15. WHAT'S NEW?
Page last revised
14 April 2007
November 2006
Began migrating the Electronic Canterbury
Tales from University of Alaska Anchorage webservers to
www.kankedort.net.
August 2006
Although not Chaucer related, the Archimedes
Palimpsest, detailing the efforts of scientists and scholars to
recover the earliest Greek text of Archimedes' The Method, Stomachion,
and On Floating Bodies beneath the text of a 10th century prayer
book, is a fascinating website describing state-of-the art conservation
and recovery technologies applied to a medieval manuscript. Well worth a
look.
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.
Gallica, the website of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), has also made available online page images
of a number of older, out of copyright journals related to Chaucer and
medieval studies, like:
Some of the absolutely classic
Chaucer-related articles from these journals include:
Click on
Périodiques to go to a full listing of BNF online journals (most of
which are in French). These are large, generally slow loading graphical
images, but are valuable nonetheless.
Gallica, the website of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France, has made available online page images
of an invaluable source, the Acta Sanctorum (Deeds of the
Saints), from the Bollandist Society:
Click "Periodiques" at the main page, and
scroll down to "Religions chretiennes"
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
(University College, Cork) houses cornucopia of material related to medieval
Ireland, many in modern English translation, including:
- The Annals of Ulster AD 431-1201
(HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Annals of Ulster AD
1202-1378 (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Annals of Ulster AD
1379-1541(HTML
and PLAIN)
- Chronicon Scotorum (HTML
& PLAIN)
- St. Columba
- On the Life of Saint
Columba [Betha Choluim Chille] (W. Stokes)
(HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Life of Columba,
written by Adamnan (W. Reeves)(HTML
& PLAIN)
- Monks' Rules of Columbanus
(G. S. M. Walker) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- Sermons of Columbanus
(G. S. M. Walker) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- Letters of Columbanus
(G. S. M. Walker) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Irish Lives of Guy of Warwick &
Bevis of Hampton (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Irish Version of the Historia
Britonum of Nennius (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Kildare Poems
Modern
English by A. Lucas (HTML
and PLAIN)
- On the Life of Saint Patrick [Betha
Phatraic] (W. Stokes) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- On the Life of Saint Brigit [Betha
Brigte] (W. Stokes)(HTML
& PLAIN)
- Tidings of Doomsday (W. Stokes) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Tidings of the Resurrection
(W. Stokes)
(HTML
& PLAIN)
- The fifteen tokens of Doomsday
(W. Stokes) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The vision of Laisrén (HTML
& PLAIN)
As of 31 July 2006, CELT offered 649 texts
(many from later periods of literature, and also in SGML).
July 2006: Major repairs, revisions,
& additions:
1. Major repair (more than 1200 broken links).
2. Added a number of miscellaneous
links.
3. Deep linking to
- The Canterbury Tales Project
resources
- Essays in Medieval Studies online
- The Medieval Review online
- The 1995 Cultural Frictions conference
at Georgetown U
- Paul Halsall's IMSB, "The
Calamitous Fourteenth Century"
- Hallsall's Internet Jewish Sourcebook
(on the ECT Prioress's Tale page)
4. Barbara Bordalejo,
current director of the Canterbury Tales Project, has also generously made
her two dissertations available online (unrevised):
The Phylogeny of the Tale-Order in
the Canterbury Tales (NYU):
The Manuscript Source of Caxton's
Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales and Its Place in the Textual
Tradition of the Tales (DeMonfort U):
Bordalejo also states, "Although these
versions are thought to be the same as those publically available through
University of Michigan, as a textual critic I am aware that 'textual
control' is never as strict as one thinks. I would appreciate if you could
contact me if you intend to quote from these works."
July 2006
Major repair (more than 1200 broken links). Added a number of miscellaneous
links.
Deep linking to
- The Canterbury Tales Project
resources
- Essays in Medieval Studies online
- The Medieval Review online
- The 1995 Cultural Frictions conference
at Georgetown U
- Paul Halsall's IMSB, "The
Calamitous Fourteenth Century"
- Hallsall's Internet Jewish Sourcebook
(on the ECT Prioress's Tale page)
The Prioress's Tale
evidences one of the most pernicious aspects of medieval culture: Its
pervasive antisemitism. So, the tale explicitly invokes the multifaceted
relationship of Christianity and Judaism. Part of Paul Halsall's
extensive Internet
Medieval Source Book, the Internet
Jewish History Source Book houses an extensive collection of primary
sources related to the Jewish
Middle Ages. Some of the extensive listing of documents under
Christian Anti-Semitism / Latin Christianity, relating specifically to
England include (lightly edited):
Continental and Papal pronouncements
include:
Relations between Christians and Jews in
England are illustrated by the following. (I've slightly edited and
rearranged some of Halsall's links here for their relevance to
England):
- Gilbert Crispin: Disputation
of a Jew with a Christian about the Christian Faith, before 1096
- Anselm of Canterbury: How
to Treat a Convert, before 1100
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Contact
between English Jews and Christians: Two Twelfth-century Views
- An
Israelite Bishop without Guile, c. 1168
- Gerald of Wales: A
Witty Jew, c. 1185
- Henry II of England: Concerning
Loans From The Jews
- The
Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1182 (Account by Rigord from
the Gesta Philippi Augusti).
- Richard I of England: Charter
by Which Many Liberties are Granted and Confirmed to the Jews, 22
March, 1190
- English Jewry is Organised: The
Ordinances of the Jews, 1194
- Appointment
of an Archpriest of the Jews in England, July 1199
- King John of England and the Jews: Charters,
c.1201
I found another geocities.com website that
houses a number of Chaucer essays:
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Authorizing
the Reader in Chaucer's House of Fame by Laurel Amtower
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No
Joke: Transcendent Laughter in the Teseida and the Miller's
Tale by Timothy D. Arner
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"Wel
bet is roten appul out of hoord": Chaucer's Cook, Commerce, and
Civic Order by Craig E. Bertolet
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"Of
Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyf": Confusion of Orifices in
Chaucer's Miller Tale by Louise M. Bishop
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The
Pardoner's Hyprocrisy of his Subjectivity by Robert Boenig
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Alma
Redemptoris Mater, Gaude Maria, and the Prioress's Tale
by Robert Boenig
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'Shot
Wyndowe; (Miller's tale, I.3358 and 3695): An open and shut case?
by Peter Brown
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Chaucer's
The Cook's Tale by Olga Burakov
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Performing
the Prioress: "Conscience" and responsibility in studies of
Chaucer's Prioress's tale by Michael Calabrese
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The
Desolate Palace and the Solitary City: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Dante
by Robert R. Edwards
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The
Ending of Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale by P. J. C. Field
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Petrach,
Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale by John Finlayson
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"Little
Troilus": Heroides 5 and its Ovidian contexts in Chaucer's
Troilus and Criseyde by Jamie C. Fumo
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Faux
Semblants: Antifraternalism Reconsidered in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
by G. Geltner
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The
Summoner's Jankyn as an Artifical Fool by Stephen Harper
The Name of
Chaucer's Miller by Carole Hough
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Pastoral
Histories: Utopia, Conquest, and the Wife of Bath's Tale by
Patricia Clare Ingham
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'Loo,
lordes myne, heere is a fit!': The Structure of Chaucer's Sir Thopas
by E. A. Jones
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What
Ails Chaucers' Cook? Spiritual Alchemy and the Ending of The
Canterbury Tales by Michael Kensak
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Apollo
exterminans: The God of Poetry in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale
by Michael Kensak
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"Myne
by right": Oath Making and Intent in The Friar's Tale
by Daniel T. Kline
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"And
riden in Belmarye": Chaucer's General Prologue, Line 57
by Jeanne Krochalis
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The
Mercantile (Mis)reader in the Canterbury Tales by Roger A.
Ladd
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The
Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the "Canon's Yeoman's
Tale" by James H. Landman
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Romancing
Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Levinas: Fortune, Moral Luck, and
Erotic Adventure by J. Allan Mitchell
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Chaucer's
Clerk's Tale and the Question of Ethical Monstrosity by J.
Allan Mitchell
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Experience
and the Judgement of Poetry: A Reconsideration of The Franklin's
Tale by Gerald Morgan
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Hard
Lords and Bad Food-service in the Monk's Tale by Scott
Norsworthy
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Interpreting
Female Agency and Responsibility in the Miller's Tale and the Merchant's
Tale by Joseph D. Parry
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Chaucer's
Rape, Southern Racism, and the Pedagogical Ethics of Authorial
Malfeasance by Tison Pugh
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Queer
Pandarus? Silence and Sexual Ambiguity in Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde by Tison Pugh
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"The
Summoner's Tale" and Proverbs 21.14 by Thomas Rand
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May
in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's
Tale by Christian Sheridan
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Speech,
Circumspection, and Orthodontics in the Manciple's Prologue and
Tale and The Wife of Bath's Portrait by Mel Storm
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Public
Fantasy and the Logic of Sacrifice in The Physician's Tale
by Michael Uebel
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A
Woman in the Mind's Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer's Clerks's
Tale by Robin Waugh
Michael Delahoyde has posted an eminently
readable series of notes to the General Prologue and each of the
Canterbury Tales at his Washington State U website:
The
B.
Davis Schwartz Memorial Library at Long Island University has made
available a
number of images of the stunningly beautiful Ellesmere ms:
You can easily see difference in quality of
the El ms as compared to most other pre-1500 Chaucer ms.
A
number of images related to the Tales and CTales manuscripts:
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The
"pilgrim steps"
leading to Thomas Becket's tomb at Caterbury Cathedral (Frederick
Christian Bauerschmidt, Loyola, Maryland).
- Stained
glass image of St. Thomas Becket (Canterbury Cathedral, 13th
century) (Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Loyola, Maryland).
- London's Inner
Temple, the 'law school' where the Manciple is said to have served
(A.567) and the Sergeant of Law would have been trained (A.309-30),
has put online a concise account of its history and development.
- See images
of the Hengwrt ms at the National Library of Wales website.
- See the
detailed images at Kevin Kiernan's webpage (UKentucky) of
- (Hg)
National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392 D
- (El)
Henry E. Huntington Library MS. El.26C.9
- (La)
British Library MS. Lansdowne 851
- The Huntington Library Press has
released several
images online in conjunction with their publication, The
Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by Herbert C.
Schulz.
The University of Chicago has issued
a centennial celebration that includes profiles of noted faculty, like
J.M.
Manley and Edith Rickert:
- "In 1924, John Matthews Manly
proposed a systematic study of the complete works of Geoffrey
Chaucer, anticipating that the work "would necessarily
require several years." Although the "several
years" were to become sixteen, Manly and his collaborator,
Edith Rickert, produced the eight-volume edition of The Text of
the Canterbury Tales (1940) that was immediately hailed as the
defining work in the field of Chaucerian studies."
- Their discoveries included
University
of Chicago Ms. 564, a "mid-fifteenth-century codex is one
of fifty-seven relatively complete manuscript copies of the Tales
and one of only two containing a passage from the 'Tale of
Melibeus'."
David Scott Wilson-Okamura (East
Carolina U) has developed a fine classroom exercise, with bibliography,
illustrating Examples
of Chaucerian Revision and "describing examples of authorial
revision in the Canterbury Tales. Probably best used in conjunction
with a facsimile of the Hengwrt manuscript." In Wilson-Okamura's own
words, "Note: author buys Ralph Hanna's booklet theory of Hengwrt MS
without reservation, ignores N. F. Blake at his peril." Also
available as a .pdf
file.
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. Search the
page by page comparison of Caxton's two editions.
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, including the following:
- From The Canterbury Tales Project:
Occasional Papers, Volume 1, ed. Norman Blake and Peter Robinson
(Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1993):
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From The Canterbury
Tales Project: Occasional Papers, Volume 2, ed. Norman Blake and
Peter Robinson (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1997):
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From the Canterbury Tales
Project CDs:
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Peter Robinson, "Editor's
Introduction, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM,
ed. Peter Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).
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Peter Robinson and
Norman Blake, "General
Editors' Preface;" Elizabeth Solopova, Editor's
Introduction;" Peter Robinson, "Analysis
Workshop," The General Prologue on CD-ROM, ed.
Elizabeth Solopova (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000).
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Estelle Stubbs, "Editor's
Introduction;" Daniel W. Mosser, "Manuscript
Description;" Simon Horobin, "The
Language of the Hengwrt Chaucer," From The Hengwrt
Chaucer Digital Facsimile, ed. Estelle Stubbs (Scholarly
Digital Editions, 2000).
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Peter Robinson, "Editor's
Introduction" and "Rationale
and Implementation of the Collation System Used on this CD-ROM,"
The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson (Scholarly
Digital Editions, 2004).
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Other essays
("key documents") at the Canterbury Tales Project site:
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Peter Robinson,
"The
History, Discoveries and Aims of the Canterbury Tales Project,"
The Chaucer Review 38:2 (2003) pp. 126-139. This is the
prepublication version. The article summarizes project activities
to 2003.
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Peter Robinson and
Elizabeth Solopova, "Guidelines
for Transcription of the Manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's
Prologue," from the Nun's Priest's Tale on CD-ROM
(2006), fully explains "the transcription principles upon
which the Canterbury Tales Project is based."
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Peter Robinson's
"New
methods of Editing, Exploring, and Reading The Canterbury Tales,"
was originally fashioned as a conference paper given at the
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome (28 May 1998).
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Peter Robinson and
Norman Blake, "General
Editor's Preface," from The General Prologue on CD-ROM
(2000), describes "a key change in project policy: not only
'to help editors edit' but also 'to help readers read'."
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Peter Robinson, "Open
Transcription Policy," takes an ethically important
stance toward academic collaboration and peer review: "It is
a vital principle of our work that the transcripts we make should
be freely available to other scholars, for their use and
modification. This document explains how we reconcile this with
copyright considerations."
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Peter Robinson, "Current
Issues in Making Digital Editions of Medieval Texts — or, Do Electronic
Scholarly Editions Have a Future?" Digital Medievalist
1.1 (2005).
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Peter Robinson, "Where
We Are with Electronic Scholarly Editions, and Where We Want to Be?"
Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie Online 1.1 (2005).
In print in Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 2004, 123-143.
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See also the excerpts
from the editorial materials to the Canterbury Tales
Project's already-completed CD-ROMs:
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Peter Robinson, "Editor's
Introduction," from The Wife of Bath's Prologue on
CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
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Peter Robinson and
Norman Blake, "General
Editors' Preface;" Elizabeth Solopova, "Editor's
Introduction; & Peter Robinson, "Analysis
Workshop," from The General Prologue on CD-ROM, ed.
Elizabeth Solopova (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
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Estelle Stubbs,
"Editor's
Introduction;" Daniel W. Mosser, "Manuscript
Description;" & Simon Horobin, "The
Language of the Hengwrt Chaucer," from The Hengwrt
Chaucer Digital Facsimile, ed. by Estelle Stubbs (Scholarly
Digital Editions, 2000).
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Peter Robinson, "Editor's
Introduction" & "Rationale
and Implementation of the Collation System Used on this CD-ROM,"
from The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson
(Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004).
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Barbara Bordalejo,
"Editor's
Introduction" & "Notes
on the Caxton Canterbury Tales Editions and their Place in
the Textual Tradition of the Tales," from Caxton's
Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies, ed.
Barbara Bordalejo (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2003).
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.
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