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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
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
If you need just one
book
about the Canterbury Tales, this is it!
Helen Cooper's
Oxford Guide to the Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue to
the Canterbury Tales
A Guide to the Criticism -
Takes a chronological approach to critical disputes over the General
Prologue from the 1880's to present
Related Schools, Programs, and Local & Regional Organizations
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Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Chaucernet
Archives, a searchable archive of the Chaucernet academic listserv,
dating from September 1995 until the present.
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Delaware
Valley Medieval Association
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International
Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
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International
Medieval Institute, University of Leeds
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The
Lollard Society
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The
Medieval Academy of America
(MAA), the granddaddy of medieval organizations in the US, is entering the
new century with a new attitude.
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Medieval
Academy of America: Committee on Centers and Regional Associations
compiles data on North American (and external) medieval centers, programs,
committees, libraries, and regional associations.
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Medieval
Association of the Pacific
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Medieval
Institute at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo)
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Medieval
and Renaissance Drama Society
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New
Chaucer Society provides a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his
age, sponsors a biennial conference, and a number of publishing projects.
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Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies (U of Toronto)
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Society
for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
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Spanish
Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM)
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Society
for Medieval Languages and Linguistics
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Society
for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
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TEAMS:
The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
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Texas
Medieval Association
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UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The
Single Best Site for Online Term Paper
& College Essay
See
especially the Purdue OWL publications:
Related Medieval Studies Course and Web Pages
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Don Adams (Central
Connecticut) offers brief discussions of key medieval philosophers on his
Medieval
and Renaissance Philosophy course page.
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Paul Halsall's excellent
HSRU 1300: Medieval History
(Fordham) course page is a fully hyperlinked introduction to the period, including
Islamic, Byzantine, and Iberian developments as well Latin Christendom. A feast of primary
sources and solid lecture notes.
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R.J.Kilcullen's very fine
PHIL 252: Medieval Philosophy
and PHIL 360: Later
Medieval Philosophy course pages (Macquarrie U) offers a detailed
Reading Guide to Boethius's
Consolation
as well as a number of other introductory (and downloadable!) lectures, notes, and primary
texts for figures like Abelard, Aquinas, Anselm, Averroes,
Ockham, Scotus, & Wycliffe.
See particularly his concise
Medieval Philosophy: An
Introduction.
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Don Adams (Central
Connecticut) offers brief discussions of key medieval philosophers on his
Medieval
and Renaissance Philosophy course page.
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See
Steven Reimer's excellent online course,
Manuscript
Studies: Medieval and Early Modern (U of Alberta), for an excellent
introduction and overview to the composition and development of medieval
texts.
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Steve Muhlberg's
Medieval
England, History 2425 offers a variety of resources (Nipissing U).
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See Dan Mosser's
History
of the English Language Website for online resources in historical
linguistics. See also the
International
Phonetic Association's website.
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Gary Rich's sublime
Ars
Subtilior. Music of the Late Medieval period and the generous list of
links there.
Societies &
Organizations
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Chaucernet
Archives, a searchable archive of the Chaucernet academic listserv,
dating from September 1995 until the present.
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New
Chaucer Society provides a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his
age, sponsors a biennial conference, and a number of publishing projects.
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The
Medieval Academy of America
(MAA), the granddaddy of medieval organizations in the US, is entering the
new century with a new attitude.
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Medieval
Academy of America: Committee on Centers and Regional Associations
compiles data on North American (and external) medieval centers, programs,
committees, libraries, and regional associations.
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Society
for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
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Society
for Medieval Languages and Linguistics
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Society for the Study of the
Bible in the Middle Ages
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TEAMS:
The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
Websites for Calls for Papers
Call
for Papers database from the University of Pennsylvania CFP listserv
Major Medieval Conferences Websites
International
Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)
International
Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
Schools, Programs, and Local & Regional Organizations
Journal & Newsletter Homepages
Chaucernet:
An Academic Listserv (from Edwin Duncan, Towson U)
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An Online
Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The
Knight's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Knight's
Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center.
Read the
Knight's Tale in the context of Fragment
I - Group A.
Read Chaucer's short lyric Trouthe
(Representative Poetry Online, U of Toronto), embodying a chivalric value
crucial to the Knight's portrait in the General Prologue:
- A Knyght ther was, and that a worthy
man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie. (I [A].43-46)
2. In Modern English Translation
The
Electronic Library Foundation's edition of the Canterbury Tales,
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.
Skip
Knox's selection
of Canterbury Tales in Modern English (Boise State) includes the Knight's Tale
(from an unknown base text).
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
The Crusades
(Paul Halsall, IMSB) offers a full range of primary sources on the Crusader Era from Urban
II's pivotal address in 1095 to the fall of Acre in 1291, including accounts of the
Crusading Orders.
The Western Orientalism
section of IMSB contains texts from Western European travelers as they describe the
"exotic" lands of the East.
Knights, Warfare, Weapons, and Tournaments:
Steven
Muhlberger (Nipissing U) has put together a very fine compilation of
chivalric texts entitled, Deeds
of Arms: A Collection of Accounts of Formal Deeds of Arms of the
Fourteenth Century. These are, in fact, accounts of tournaments (in
original languages and in translation) as opposed to fictionalized
accounts. Included in the riches here are
- The 1351 Combat of the Thirty
- The Smithfield Tournament of 1390
- The life-and-death duel between James le
Gris and John de Carogne (Froissart, Religieux)
See also Muhlberger's Historical
Materials on Knighthood and Chivalry and Fighting
for Fun? What was at Stake in Formal Deeds of Arms of the 14th Century?
Elizabeth Bennett (Princeton) has provided a
facing page translation of Rene
d'Anjou's traictié de la forme et devis d'ung tournoy.
Bennett notes "The tournament book describes a style of tournament
which René says he has adapted from the ancient customs of France and
other countries. Although René describes this tournament in vivid detail,
we do not know if such a tournament was ever held in the fifteenth
century."
The
Association for Renaissance Martial Arts has an extensive site that
puts the meat and bones back into the romantic accounts of medieval
warfare, and it's chock full of articles
explaining and illustrating forms of medieval
combat and types of weapons. A rich site indeed that focuses on late
medieval (and Renaissance) combat. See especially:
Other
Websites Concerning Knights, Warfare, and Tournaments:
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 Knight's Tale
include:
- The Canterbury Tales:
Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions
(ed. John M. Bowers), Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute
Publications, 1992.
- John Lydgate: The Siege of Thebes
(ed. Robert R. Edwards), Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute
Publications, 2001.
"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."
Boethius's Consolation
of Philosophy, from the W.V. Cooper translation. (London: J.M. Dent, 1902). A key text
for understanding the Knight's Tale.
For other views of medieval chivalry, you might peruse one of the greatest of all
Middle English poems, Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, or the famous crusading epic, The Song of Roland.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Knight'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 Knight's Tale include:
6. Online Articles and Books
Peer Reviewed Articles
Louise O. Fradenberg's Sacrificial
Desire in Chaucer's Knight's Tale," Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies 27.1 (1997), 47-75 takes a Lacanian view of
the KnT.
Helen Barr's "Chaucer's
Knight: A Christian Killer," The English Review 12.2 (2001), np
takes on the claim that the Knight was a mercenary. From Grover
Wonderbrook's geocities.com website.
Academic Books
An important work of gender criticism in Chaucer studies is Elaine Tuttle Hanson's Chaucer and
the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).
H. Marshall Leicester's The Disenchanted Self: Representing the
Subject in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P,
1990).
Richard Neuse reads Chaucer through the
lens of the great Italian poet Dante in Chaucer's Dante:
Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales. (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1991).
Charles Ross traces the courtly tradition in The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth
(Berkeley: U of California P, 1997).
Aldo Scaglione details a wide variety of knightly practices in Knights
at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the
Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).
R.A.
Shoaf's online postprint Dante, Chaucer, and
the Currency of the Word devotes Chapter 10 to "Fragment A and the
Versions of the Household"
Chaucer Sourcebook, from the
Harvard Chaucer Page, offers a number of classic and professional essays from noted
Chaucerians, including:
- David Aers, "Imagination, Order and
Ideology: The Knight's Tale," from Chaucer, Langland, and the Creative
Imagination, 1980, pp. 175-95.
- Susan Crane, ""Medieval Romance
and Feminine Difference in the Knight's Tale," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12
(1990): 47-63.
- Charles Muscatine, ""The Knight's Tale,"
Chaucer and the French Tradition, pp. 175-190.
- Larry
D. Benson, The
Tournament in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes & L'Histoire de
Guillaume Le Maréchal Chivalric Literature: Essays on Relations
between Literature & Life in the Later Middle Ages. Ed. Larry D.
Benson & John Leyerle. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 1980.
2-24.
- All articles on the Harvard Chaucer Page reprinted by
permission.
Sarah Stanbury, "Visibility
Politics in Chaucer's Knight's Tale," from the Conference Proceedings of
"Cultural Frictions: Medieval Studies in Postmodern Contexts," 27-28
October 1995. Cite as web document.
Other Studies
Chaucer's
Knight, the Tale of Melibee, and the SocioHistorical Implications of
Pilgrimage, from the very interesting website of Frederick Martin and
his project Whitecrow
Borderland, which is concerned with articulating a Native American
cultural philosophy.
Essays in Medieval Studies,
full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association, edited by
Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola - Chicago).
Keeping in mind the Knight's portrait in the General Prologue and Theseus's
grand tournament between Palamon and Arcite for the hand of Emily, see
Steven Muhlberger's excellent overview of the knightly ethos in Fighting
for Fun? What was at Stake in Formal Deeds of Arms of the 14th Century?
Thomas
Honegger has written a sophisticated linguistic analysis in 'Yif
me my love, thow blisful lady deere' : Forms of Address in Chaucer's The
Knight's Tale (U of Zurich).
7. Student Projects
Matthew Markland, a student of Susan Yager (Iowa State) prepared a hypertext report on Chaucer's Poetry: The
Boethian Poems, whose content is pertinent to the Knight's Tale.
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. Jokkinen also compiles a number of resources by Canterbury
Tale: The
Knight's Tale
8. Online Bibliography
Steven Mulberger's Select
Bibliography on Medieval Tournaments (Nipissing U).
William Vincenti's
Chivalry Bibliography (Montclair State U).
From Association for Renaissance Martial Arts: General
Reference Books on Medieval Arms & Armor or Medieval Warfare
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
See the
Knight's Portrait from the Ellesmere Manuscript, one of the two
earliest compilations of the Canterbury Tales (Huntington Library, San
Marino, California).
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
Sample
audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Knight's
Tale, read by Alan T. Gaylord and recorded at Dartmouth College in 1994, are available
from the Chaucer Studio (Paul Thomas, Brigham Young).
12. Potpourri
Warfare
and armor, mostly from enthusiasts and hobbyists:
Maps
13. The
Next Step
The Electronic Canterbury
Tales
Scholar's Dozen
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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.
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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.
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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
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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, gen. ed. of The Riverside
Chaucer. Check the Index for
easy access to the wealth of primary and secondary material there.
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Paul
Halsall's consummate Internet Medieval
Sourcebook (Fordham U) offers a wealth of primary historical and cultural texts
(from older print sources) and
commentary on its numerous sub-pages. Comprehensive, and unsurpassed for medieval studies.
See, for example, The
'Calamitous' Fourteenth Century.
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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.
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Michigan's
Corpus of Middle
English Prose and Verse has a large number of important primary texts,
often older Early English Text Society volumes. The new editions also boast
an upgraded search engine (Paul Schaffner & Perry Willett, UMichigan). Most
important for Chaucer studies are the Chaucer Society editions of important
early manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (edited by the
indefatigable Furnivall).
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The Middle English Collection of
the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
includes searchable editions of a number of important ME texts (generally from older
editions without the critical apparatus), including:
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The
Middle English Dictionary is online at the UMichigan site. You have
to access the individual password month by month.
Note: The MED seems now to be temporarily offline, or perhaps
inaccessible for the moment to individual users.
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A real boon for scholars, the
Canterbury Tales Project (Peter Robinson, U of Birmingham) has
generously made available a series of articles and working papers
describing the CTProject in detail.
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From Barbara Bordalejo (Canterbury Tales Project - DeMontfort U), a fully
searchable online edition of Caxton's two printed editions of the
Canterbury Tales: Caxton's
Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies.
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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."
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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 U).
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
Writing Resources (from Bartleby.com)
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