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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
WHAT'S NEW?
Headings,
Site Organization,
and Criteria for Inclusion
Headings and Site Organization
- To keep the Electronic Canterbury Tales (ECT) website
easy to
use and helpful to the widest possible audience, I have organized each web page
similarly--each dedicated to an individual Canterbury Tale or aspect of the
Tales--according to the same structure and set of headings.
Frames
- The Left Frame is a navigation bar where you
can easily find each of the Canterbury Tales and each individual web page in the ECT
website. The Left Frame also carries a uniform listing of helpful medieval and
Chaucer related websites, including a hyperlinked logo for the Chaucer Metapage.
- The Right Frame lists the ECT headings and
indicates individual with a brief annotation as to the linked site's usefulness.
Navigation
- Navigation bars are found at the top and bottom of each page,
where you can proceed to the next Canterbury Tale in sequence, return to the ECT Main Page, or link to the Chaucer Pedagogy Page at any
time.
Headings and Criteria for Inclusion
Please send me your suggestions for websites I might
include or for how I might improve this website.
1. In Middle English
- Under this heading are links to online Middle English editions
of the particular Canterbury Tale under consideration.
- Until The Riverside Chaucer (the current academic
standard) becomes more widely available, these links are generally from the
University of Virginia Electronic Text Archive or the equivalent text at the University of
Michigan Humanities Text Initiative site, each based on Robinson's still
serviceable 1957
edition of Chaucer's works.
2. In Modern English Translation
- Under this heading are links to online English translations of
the particular Canterbury Tale under consideration.
- There are a number of different versions available, some of
the entire Canterbury Tales, others of just a tale or two.
- Their usefulness depends upon the grade level of the user and
the type of research being undertaken. College level research should engage the
Middle English text, while younger readers might profit by reading translations in
conjunction with brief selections of the Middle English.
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
- Under this heading are found online materials relevant to the
medieval context of the particular tale under consideration, especially primary
historical documents and other cultural records.
- Generally, these websites are associated with
university
programs or individual scholars.
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
- Under this heading are found primarily literary sources
and documents.
- Generally, these websites are also associated with university
programs or individual scholars.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
- Under this heading are found class and lecture notes from
individual (generally college-level) instructors.
- Of varying quality but generally useful, these notes offer
anything from brief insights into Chaucerian material to more developed formal lectures or
outlines.
- These notes are generally not peer reviewed but
represent the
individual instructor's opinion.
6. Online Articles
- Under this heading are found online articles by
professional
scholars or advanced graduate students.
- The hallmark of any source listed in this category is that it
has been peer reviewed; that is, it has been screened, refereed,
and reviewed by other scholars in the field for academic rigor and quality of argument.
- These links are generally associated with established or well
known academic journals of good repute.
7. Student Projects & Essays
- Under this heading are found online student projects of
varying types, skill, and grade level. Generally, these are assignments completed as
part of a classroom assignment.
- They are valuable resources for both students and teachers
illustrating the kinds of student work now possible with WWW technology.
- Like many a Canterbury Tale, these student projects are often
exemplary--from sophisticated examples of the high style to, shall we say, the rather
churlish or unenviable but nonetheless illustrative.
8. Online Bibliography
- This heading is hyperlinked to the ECT Main
Page, where
several excellent online Chaucer bibliographies are listed. These bibliographies are
designed to take students from the WWW to the library, where the best information is still
to be found.
- When an bibliography tailored to an individual tale has been
put online, it will also be listed on the appropriate page.
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
- This heading is hyperlinked to the ECT Main Page, where an up
to date listing of online college level Chaucer and medieval courses is kept.
- These syllabi are an important resource for other teachers
looking for ideas, inspiration, and practical solutions for designing a Chaucer course.
10. Images & Multimedia
- These websites often include images,
multimedia, and less than
scholarly but often enthusiastic attempts at bringing some aspect of the Middle Ages to
life via the WWW.
- Under this heading will also be included
manuscript images, photos and streaming media of historical
sites, and
other related images.
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
- This heading will link to audio files in
various formats, as well as more academically inclined language
resources on grammar, vocabulary, phonology, morphology, and other
language helps.
- Any study of Chaucer should include some
practice in pronouncing the Middle English of Chaucer's time.
12. Potpourri
- Under this heading are found a number of other kinds of online
material related--sometimes just slightly and perhaps even deliberately provocatively--to
the Canterbury Tale under consideration.
13. The
Next Step
- This heading is hyperlinked to a page entitled, Beyond the
Chaucer Pedagogy Page. It gives a number of suggestions--from the academic to the
purely personal--for pursuing one's interest in Chaucer and the Middle Ages.
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)
About This Website
ECT
Revision
History:
What's New?
Headings,
Organization,
&
Criteria for Inclusion
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
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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