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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
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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
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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Check out Geoffrey Chaucer
Hath a Blog, well, just because. And, no, it ain't me. And, no, I
don't get a piece of
this
either, but I like it!
WHAT'S NEW?
The
Monk's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Monk's
Prologue, the Monk's
Tale, and the Knight's
Interruption of the Monk at the UVa Electronic Text Center
Read the
Monk's Prologue, the Monk's Tale, and the Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale in the
context of Fragment
VII - Group B2
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
Monk's Tale, the Monk's Tale and
the Knight's
Interruption of the Monk (from an unknown base text).
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
Comprising the governing regulations for monastic life in the Middle Ages, see the Rule of St. Augustine and the
Rule of St. Benedict, both of which
the Monk eschews in his pilgrim portrait in the General Prologue:
- "The reule of Seint Maure or of
Seint Beneit--
By cause that it was old and somdel streit
This ilke Monk leet olde thynges pace,
And heeld after the newe world the space" (A.173-76)
A nicely done web version of the 1949
edition of The
Rule of St. Benedict (trans. Boniface Verheyen, OSB) is also online.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
L.
Kip Wheeler's Ecclesiastical
Worldview details some basics about medieval theology (Carson-Newman
College). A .pdf file.
Discussion and links concerning the Monk's Prologue and 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 Monk's Tale
include:
6. Online Books & Essays
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 from the University of California related to the Monk's
Tale include:
- Elaine Tuttle Hanson's Chaucer and
the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).
- Laura Kendrick's Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the
Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P, 1988).
- H. Marshall Leicester's The Disenchanted Self: Representing the
Subject in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: U of California P,
1990).
- Richard Neuse's Chaucer's Dante:
Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales. (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1991).
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
See the
Poor Scholar's Medieval Library for reviewed, recommended
texts and related book lists.
Google Scholar
It's not perfect yet--not by a long
shot--but Google Scholar will no doubt develop into an
important research tool for students and scholars alike.
At this point,
Google Scholar is best used as a bibliographical resource.
It 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.
Google Book
This project is also showing its growing pains, but it
makes a number of (primarily) older studies related to
Chaucer and medieval literature and culture. You can
contribute to the success of this effort by informing Google
of any incorrect scans, missing pages, or other errors.
You can review
the details of the somewhat controversial Google
Library Project. Only out-of-copyright books are
available in full. See the Electronic Canterbury Tales -
Online Books and Essays main page for a linked listing of
available texts.
Google Custom
Search:
You can search the web handpicked (by me and other
medievalists) websites related to
Chaucer and medieval culture.
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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(no cost, older academic books, in .pdf
form from the
Google Library Project)
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Electronic Canterbury Tales
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(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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individual web-based courses now appear quaint and outdated.
I am no longer actively
updating these web pages but will keep them alive in the ongoing battle
against "link rot."
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of
The Miller's Tale, The Wife Of Bath, The Knight's
Tale, The Sea
Captain's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale and The Man Of Law's Tale
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