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.

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.

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 or check a few of the entries here:

• General Treatments
• Editions
• Manuscripts and Texts
• Canon, Apocrypha, and Lost Works
• Contemporary Social Conditions
• The Persona

Canterbury Tales / General

• Canterbury Tales--General
• CT-Evolution and Order
• CT-Frame and Structure
• CT-Pilgrimage
• CT-Genres, Including Fabliaux
• CT-Marriage Argument
• CT-The Host
• CT-Names Pilgrims, and Pilgrims without Tales

Canterbury Tales / By Tale

• CT-General Prologue
• CT-The Knight and his Tale
• CT-The Miller and his Tale
• CT-The Reeve and his Tale
• CT-The Cook and his Tale
• CT-The Man of Law and his Tale
• CT-The Wife of Bath and her Tale
• CT-The Friar and his Tale
• CT-The Summoner and his Tale
• CT-The Clerk and his Tale
• CT-The Merchant and his Tale
• CT-The Squire and his Tale
• CT-The Franklin and his Tale
• CT-The Physician and his Tale
• CT-The Pardoner and his Tale
• CT-The Shipman and his Tale
• CT-The Prioress and her Tale
• CT-The Tale of Sir Thopas
• CT-The Tale of Melibee
• CT-The Monk and his Tale
• CT-The Nun's Priest and his Tale
• CT-The Second Nun and her Tale
• CT-The Canon's Yeoman and his Tale
• CT-The Manciple and his Tale
• CT-The Parson and his Tale
• CT-The Retraction

The Medieval Review (TMR) Reviews of Recent Books about Chaucer (Links to the books reviewed in The Medieval Review, compiled by Edwin Duncan, Towson U.)

Bibliography on Renaissance Chaucer (John F. Plummer, Vanderbilt U) is a helpful compilation of academic sources tracing Chaucer's "afterlife" in the Renaissance.

Michael Hanley's A Limited Canterbury Tales Bibliography (Washington State) is a straightforward listing of important studies and anthologies.  No annotations.

The same is true for Alan Baragona's always current Chaucer:  A Semi- Systematic, Serendipitous Bibliography (VMI), whose entries are "grouped according to their usefulness for undergraduate research."

Stephen R. Reimer's Chaucer / English 324 Bibliography (UAlberta) is organized by topic and includes a broad array of social and cultural sources. Some annotations.

David Wilson-Okamura offers an annotated list of bibliography links on his geoffreychaucer.org page.

Other Relevant Bibliographies:

• AskERIC:  Search the massive ERIC database for abstracts related to Chaucer.
• From Malaspina Great Books, a Library of Congress Citation listing to Chaucer, with a link to the Library of Congress search engine.
• The University of Kansas Medieval Studies Bibliographies provide a good starting point for research on a number of medieval topics for both the beginning and advanced researcher (gopher).