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  1. The Canterbury Tales in Middle English

  2. The Canterbury Tales in Translation

  3. General Historical & Cultural Backgrounds

  4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts

  5. Online Notes & Commentary

  6. Online Articles & Books

  7. Student Projects & Essays

  8. Online Bibliography

  9. Syllabi & Course Descriptions

  10. Images & Multimedia

  11. Audio Files & Language Helps

  12. Potpourri

  13. Additional Resources

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  15. What's New? Recent Additions to the ECT


Web Resources by Tale 

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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


Overviews, Academic Introductions, & Anthologies to Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

By four world-class Chaucerians


Two other worthy additions to any reference

 


 
 
 

An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales


6.  Online Articles & Books


  • See also the web page for each Canterbury Tale for articles and books devoted to that tale.

This heading includes the following sections:

  • Peer reviewed articles
  • Academic books
  • Google Library Project & Microsoft Live Search Books
  • Other studies
  • Book reviews

Peer Reviewed Articles

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.

A "special web cluster" on Medieval Noise from Exemplaria 16.2 (2004), edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen:

Chaucer Sourcebook, from the Harvard Chaucer Page, offers a number of classic and professional essays from noted Chaucerians, including:

Teaching Chaucer in the 90s (From Exemplaria, ed. Christine Rose, Portland State). Don't let the date in the title fool you. Good teaching never goes out of style.

Essays in Medieval Studies, full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association, edited by Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola - Chicago).  Some of the articles related to Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales include: 

Grover Wonderbrook has assembled a collection of peer reviewed essays on his geocities.com website. I am not sure of their copyright status, however:

I found another geocities.com website that houses a number of Chaucer essays:

Academic Books

A generous new online publishing venture: The University of California E-Scholarship Editions. "University of California Press now offers electronic versions of almost all of its journal titles and over 1400 books online, many of them out of print." E-journals are available to subscriber institutions; 400 full texts, many covering medieval topics, are available to the general public; the rest to members of the UC community.

A selection of Chaucer-related and medieval studies titles available to the general public include:

R. A. Shoaf, editor of Exemplaria and pioneer in making scholarly articles on medieval studies available online, has issued an e-print of his book Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry (Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1983). Exemplaria also issues electronic "pre-prints" of select articles, so be sure to check regularly.

Frederick Martin's e-dissertation in progress, Pilgrimage in the Age of Schism: Chaucer, Sociological Poetics, and the Canterbury Tales (Tulane).

A major e-publishing venture, the 18 volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21) is now online at Bartleby.com and offers substantive articles on all aspects of medieval literature.  In probably every case the opinions and findings of these older scholars has been superceded by recent investigations, but the CHMAL is still a grand resource and an important critical milestone (11,000 pages & 303 chapters)  featuring essays by important figures in medieval literary criticism.  See particularly 

  • Vol. I: FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE CYCLES OF ROMANCE, ed. by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller. Essays include 
    • The Beginnings
    • Runes and Manuscripts
    • Early National Poetry
    • Old English Christian Poetry
    • Latin Writings in England to the Time of Alfred
    • Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign
    • From Alfred to the Conquest
    • The Norman Conquest
    • Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries
    • English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford
    • The Norman Conquest
    • Arthurian Literature
    • Metrical Romances
    • The Pearl-Poet
    • Prosody, and 
    • Language Change
  • Vol. II: THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES, ed. by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller. Essays include:
    • Piers Plowman
    • Chaucer
    • Gower
    • Hawes
    • The Scottish Chaucerians
    • Religious Movements of the 14th Century
    • Early Printed Books
    • Ballads
    • Songs
    • Anthologies, 
    • and Prose of the 15th Century

Please note:  Although this older criticism is substantial and important, any serious student must take into account more contemporary research


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). Those titles noted with a are especially noteworthy. I've tried to cull here the most pertinent. Be sure to check the title pages for full documentation information.

In particular, the older studies related to specific manuscripts and manuscript relations are still very important.


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

  1. Pollard, Alfred W., ed. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (New York: Macmillan, 1907).

  2. Skeat, W.W, ed. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, 1894).

  3. ---, 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).

  4. ---, ed. The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works. (Oxford, 1897).

  5. Tyrwitt, Thomas, ed. The Canterbury Tales: A New Edition. Illus. Edward Corbould. (London, 1867).

Manuscripts and Related Studies

  1. Cromie, Henry. Ryme-Index to the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (London: N. Trübner, 1875).

  2. Furnivall, Frederick J., ed. The Harleian Ms 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (London: N. Trubner, 1885).

  3. ---. A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part I. (London: N. Trubner, 1868).

  4. 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)

  1. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Clerkes Tale: With Life, Grammar, Notes, and an Etymological Glossary (London, 1888).

  2. Furnivall, Frederick James. A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part 1 (London, 1868).

  3. Furnivall, Frederick James and R. E. G. Kirk. Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1903).

  4. Ingraham, Andrew, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer's the Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury. (New York, 1902).

  5. M'Leod, Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with Explanatory Notes, a Glossary, and a Life of the Poet. (London, 1871). 

  6. Pollard, Alfred W., ed. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Prologue (New York, 1924).

  7. Skeat, W.W, ed. The Prioresses Tale, Sire Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the Squieres Tale. (Oxford, 1880).

  8. ---. The Evolution of the Canterbury Tales.  (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1907).

  9. Thynne, Francis. Animaduersions Uppon . . . Chaucer,, ed. G.H. Kingsley (London, 1865).

Other Chaucer Works

  1. Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. A One-text Print of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde from the Campsall Ms. of Mr. Bacon Frank (London, 1888).

  2. ---, Trial-forewords to My "Parallel-text Edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems". (London, 1871). 

  3. Root, Robert K, ed. The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1914).

General Chaucerian & Medieval Studies

  1. Ellis, Alexander John, et al. On Early English Pronunciation (London, 1869).

  2. Hamilton, George Livingstone. The Indebtedness of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde to Guido Delle Colonnes Historia Trojana. (New York: Columbia UP, 1903).

  3. Jewett, Sophie. English Literature: Chaucer (London, 1896).

  4. Ker, William Paton. Essays on Medieval Literature (New York, 1905).

  5. Lounsbury, Thomas. Studies in Chaucer: His Life and Writings (New York, 1892).

  6. Morris, Richard, ed. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [Tyrwhitt] (London, 1851).

  7. Skeat, W.W. The Chaucer Canon, with a Discussion of the Works Associated with the Name of Geoffrey Chaucer. (Oxford, 1900).

  8. ---. Chaucerian and Other Pieces (Oxford, 1897).

  9. ---. The Evolution of the Canterbury Tales.  (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1907).

  10. ---, ed. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, 1866). 

  11. ---, ed. Treatise on the Astrolabe (London, 1852).

  12. Snell, Frederick John. The Age of Chaucer, 1346-1400.  (London: G. Bell, 1901).

  13. Sweet, Henry. Second Middle English Primer. (London, 1902).

  14. ten Brink, Bernhard Aegidius Konrad. The Language and Metre of Chaucer.  (New York: Macmillin, 1901).

  15. Wise, Boyd Ashby. The Influence of Statius Upon Chaucer. (Baltimore: J. H. Furst, 1911).

Other Medieval Authors

  1. 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.


Other Studies

Michael Delahoyde considers "The Plan of the Canterbury Tales" (Washington State U).

Housed at the ORB, Peter G. Beidler's (Lehigh U) Backgrounds to Chaucer includes the following lectures:

1. Chaucer's Life
2. Thomas Becket (1118-1170)
3. The Black Prince (1330-1376)
4. Richard II (1367-1400)
5. The English Rising (1381)
6. Boethius (480-524)
7. Rape and Prostitution
8. Corrupt Clerics
9. John Wyclif (1324-1384)
10. The Art of Courtly Love (Twelfth Century)
11. The Plague (1348-1349)

Medieval Misconceptions (Stephen J. Harris, UMass and Bryon Grigsby, Centenary College) offers succinct essays on several topics, addressing widely misunderstood aspects of medieval life and culture:

The articles from Cultural Frictions: Medieval Cultural Studies in Post-Modern Contexts Conference Proceedings (27-28 October 1995, ed. Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart) are available online

Unfolding the Middle Ages

Bounding Culture

Queering Medieval Culture

The Circulation of Cultural Bodies

Harvard Classics (vol. 50) includes the following essay, now quite dated: What the Middle Ages Read, by Professor W. A. Neilson.

Book Reviews

Chaucer Book Reviews (Edwin Duncan, Towson State) from The Medieval Review, an online book review listserv from Western Michigan University. Reviewed books include:

  • 96.01.05, Lerer, Chaucer and His Readers
  • 96.03.02, Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer
  • 96.03.03, Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer
  • 96.10.03, Beidler, ed., Chaucer's The Wife of Bath
  • 97.02.12, Calabrese, Chaucer's Ovidian Arts (Kennedy)
  • 97.05.06, Minnis et. al., Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems (Wetherbee)
  • 98.03.04, Higuchi, Studies in Chaucer's English (Eliason)
  • 98.05.02, Wallace, Chaucerian Polity (Bishop)
  • 98.06.08, Grudin, Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse (Davidson)
  • 98.07.10, Cox, Gender and Language in Chaucer (Sturges)
  • 98.08.06, Howes, Chaucer's Gardens (Martin)
  • 98.08.08, Rigby, Chaucer in Context (Kaminsky)
  • 98.10.08, Bisson, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World (Rigby)
  • 99.02.13, Andretta, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Utz)
  • 99.03.09, Cullen, Chaucer's Host (Parry)
  • 99.06.08, Davenport, Chaucer and His English Contemporaries (Evans)
  • 99.06.09, McGerr, Chaucer's Open Books (Parry)
  • 99.10.02, Percival, Chaucer's Legendary Good Women (Vaughan)
  • 99.10.06, Russell, Chaucer and the Trivium (Roney)
  • 00.01.03, Obst, Die Sprache Chaucers (Utz)
  • 00.02.07, Pinti, ed., Writing After Chaucer (McGavin)
  • 00.03.21, Condren, Chaucer and the Energy of Creation (Hanning)
  • 00.06.01, Cullen, Pilgrim Chaucer (Trigg)
  • 01.02.05, McGavin, Chaucer and Dissimilarity (Russell)
  • 02.03.23, Schildgen, Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's (Utz)
  • 02.09.12, Pope, How to Study Chaucer (Evans)
  • 03.01.22, Chaucer, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, ed. Eisner (Laird)
  • 03.02.16, Braswell, Chaucer's "Legal Fiction" (Gravlee)
  • 03.03.29, Swanton, English Poetry before Chaucer (Yager)
  • 03.10.03, Burger, Chaucer's Queer Nation (Drake)
  • 04.10.01, Horobin, The Language of the Chaucer Tradition (Harding)
  • 04.12.04, Delany, ed., Chaucer and the Jews (Schildgen)
  • 05.01.08, Boitani & Mann, eds., Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (Scott Lightsey)
  • 05.01.09, Utz, Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology (Frakes)
  • 05.03.05, Gray, ed., Oxford Companion to Chaucer (Kuczynski)
  • 05.08.07, Prendergast, Chaucer's Dead Body (Fredell)
  • 06.02.25, Carlson, Chaucer's Jobs (Akbari)
  • 06.06.12, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans. Glaser (Bishop)

You can also search The Medieval Review directly.


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  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.

  • 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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