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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
5. Online Notes & Commentary
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, editor of The Riverside
Chaucer. Check the Index for
easy access to the wealth of primary and secondary material there.
Douglas Grey's little gem of an essay, "Chaucer
and the growth of vernacular literature, c.1350–c.1500."
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."
The Table of Contents includes:
John
M. Hill's
Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales: The Idea! is a cursory review of the state of
the question as of 1985.
An introductory lecture by
Lee Patterson (Yale) entitled Chaucer
illustrates a New Historicist perspective in medieval and Chaucer studies.
Jesús Luis Serrano Reyes fascinating
website Chaucer and Spain and its many
subpages present a comprehensive view of Chaucer from a unique angle: Chaucer's
relationship to the Iberian Peninsula.
Professor Reyes' articles include:
Spanish
References in the Canterbury Tales
Els
Castells Humans: An Architectural Element in the House of Fame
Chaucer
and Montserrat
Catalan
Virolay and the Femynyn Creature Sitte in a See Imperial
The
Chaucers in Spain: From the Wedding to the Funeral
John
of Gaunt's Intervention in Spain: Possible Repercussions for Chaucer's
Life and Poetry
Spanish
Modesty in the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer and Don Juan Manuel
The
Host's Idiolect
Chaucer:
"A Second Seneca"
An electronic post-print from Exemplaria,
Teaching Chaucer in the 90s
(ed. by Christine Rose, Portland State) contains ten essays from leading Chaucerians and
medievalists. An excellent pedagogical resource for a wide variety of teaching
situations.
Robert Stein (SUNY - Purchase) addresses
the theoretically complex question, Medieval, Modern,
Post-Modern: Medieval Studies in a Post Modern Perspective in this essay from
Georgetown U's 1995 "Cultural Frictions" conference.
Susan Yager's (Iowa State) modest essay
answers the nay-sayers who ask, Why
Study Chaucer?
L. Kip Wheeler offers a very nice overview of manuscript issues in his
Manuscript
Talk (Carson-Newman College). Requires MS PowerPoint.
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).
The best one-stop online resource for Chaucerian
is David Wilson Okamura's
stylish and sophisticated Geoffrey Chaucer:
Annotated Guide to Online Resources (Macalaster U).
Arnie Sanders has written a number of brief but thorough introductory
essays on a variety of Chaucerian topics as part of his English 330:
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales website:
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:
Still
in its beginning stages but promising to be a major academic enterprise, Chaucertext: An On-Line Archive for
Electronic Chaucer Scholarship, promises to be a major and important international
scholarly enterprise (Josephine Tarvers, Winthrop U).
Highly regarded, The Canterbury Tales
Project: An Electronic Chaucer for Scholars and Teachers (DeMontfort U), is offering a
series of CDs with comprehensive manuscript coverage of each of the Tales, beginning with
the Wife of Bath. Also offers a number of technical essays on Chaucerian
manuscripts. The General Prologue has just become available.
Classicnote.com has a series of convenient summaries
of each of the Canterbury Tales; ignore the other services offered at
the site, however. It smacks of a term paper mill.
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
An academically sound overview
Helen Phillip's Introduction to the
Canterbury Tales
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!
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