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Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
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The Canterbury
Tales in Middle English
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The Canterbury
Tales in Translation
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General
Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
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Sources,
Analogues, & Related Texts
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Online Notes &
Commentary
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Online Articles
& Books
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Student Projects
& Essays
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Online
Bibliography
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Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
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Images &
Multimedia
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Audio Files &
Language Helps
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Potpourri
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Additional
Resources
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Scholar's
Dozen
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What's New? Recent Additions to the ECT
Web Resources by Tale
Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
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
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An Online Compendium and
Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The
Second Nun's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Second
Nun's Prologue & the Second
Nun's Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center.
Read the
Second Nun's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment
VIII - Group G.
2. In Modern English Translation
Scott Gettman's edition of the Canterbury Tales
(Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale & available in a
variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page, & Interpolated
- Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).
- Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the
ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle
English. Easily navigable, and the Middle English glosses are very helpful.
The Litrix Reading Room translation
of the Canterbury Tales features rhyming couplets.
Sinan Kökbugur's helpfully glossed hypertext Middle English rendition of the complete Canterbury Tales is available at the Librarius page. Use the Table of
Contents in the left frame to click on a specific Tale, and difficult terms and phrases
are glossed in the lower frame.
Skip
Knox's selection
of Canterbury Tales in Modern English (Boise State) includes the Prologue to the
Second Nun's Tale and the Second Nun's Tale
(from an unknown base text).
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
See Julia
Bolton Holloway's original research, for as she says, "Poor Second Nun! Who
thus becomes a true saint! Chaucer and his wife were honoured by the city of
Norwich. Norwich and Lincoln shared in the blood libel tale Chaucer has the
Prioress tell. Benedictine Carrow Priory, just outside Norwich walls, had
just such a Prioress, who in Julian's time even harboured a murderer. I did
a study of it, visited the remains, just the terribly grand Tudor house left
that a later Prioress had built for herself there, and this
research is on the web.
What could help too is the
essay on Julian and Judaism,
as well as the essay on the
Prioress and the Second Nun."
Chaucer's Second Nun tells the story of a saint's life--St. Cecilia.
Stories about saints and other holy people are termed "hagiography." The IMSB
has an excellent Saints' Lives
page that will give you an excellent starting point for research into this fascinating
area of medieval studies.
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs,
ed. William Byron Forbush (Wheaton College, Christian Classics Ethereal Library) dates from the 16th century and
harbors a distinctly pro-Protestant perspective, but also includes earlier martyr stories.
The New Advent Catholic Website hosts a number of
important resources, especially the online Catholic
Encyclopedia (1913 ed.) and its thousands of entries. Entries relevant
to the Second Nun's Tale include:
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
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. Some of the selections related to the Second Nun's Tale
include:
- Middle English Legends of Women
Saints
(ed. Sherry L. Reames), Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute
Publications, 2003.
- John Capgrave, The Life of Saint
Katherine (ed. Karen A. Winstead), Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval
Institute Publications, 1999.
"All
TEAMS texts are under copyright, whether in hard copy or in electronic
form. The on-line texts provided here are meant for individual use only.
To download and make multiple copies for course use, you must have
permission from the managing editor of Medieval
Institute Publications."
Read another version of the St. Cecilia
legend, this one printed by William Caxton (1483) from an important collection of saints'
lives called the Golden Legend.
Other interesting and important female saints' lives include Paul Halsall,
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook):
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Second Nun's Tale on
Larry D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey
Chaucer Page (Harvard). Includes e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary
texts, and capsule discussions of key issues. Some of the items related to the
Second Nun's Tale include:
6. Online Articles
Increase
and Multiply in the Speech Acts of Chaucer's Nun's Priest, Second Nun, and
Canon's Yeoman (Frederick Martin, Tulane U), from an ongoing e-project
melding critical and cultural theory & medieval studies. See Martin's
e-dissertation in progress, Pilgrimage
in the Age of Schism: Chaucer, Sociological Poetics, and the Canterbury
Tales.
7. Student Projects & Essays
Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality. Like any other
source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used
responsibly.
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
12. Potpourri
13. The Next Step
Google Academic Resources
Google Scholar
Google Book
Google Custom
Search:
I welcome your
suggestions for suitable websites. Please be patient as
I tune the search terms.
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf
and
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
This subpage of
the Electronic Canterbury Tales offers several
features:
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The Poor Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf: No cost books (generally
older studies) available via the Google Books project and other
public online projects.
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The ECT Bookshop:
Scroll down to the Electronic
Canterbury Tales Bookshop (with recommended titles) hosted by
Amazon.com.
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Online Search Links
will take you to
major online booksellers and homepages to lesser-known but
excellent specialty bookshops.
I'll cross-list the
recommended Google Books on the appropriate webpage throughout the Electronic
Canterbury Tales under
Online Articles
& Books (on the expanded Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page) and also detail them on the webpages devoted to specific Canterbury Tales or associated
pages).
This will be an ongoing
project, so check back periodically for new finds!
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
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The
Poor Medieval Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf
(no cost, older academic books, in .pdf
form from the
Google Library Project)
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
(recommended books for the study of
Chaucer and Late-Medieval England, hosted by Amazon.com)
The
Kankedort
Gift Shoppe
(with many serious and some silly offerings for the medievalist in your
life)
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Manuscripts,
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Electronic
Chaucer Texts:
What's Available Online?
Chaucer
in / and Popular Culture
Troilus
and Criseyde
Documentation Primer
Chaucer Pedagogy Page
Major Medieval Conferences Websites
International
Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan Univ. (Kalamazoo, MI)
International
Medieval Congress, Univ. of Leed (Leeds England)
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