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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
A number of Chaucer biographies are
available
A Collection of E. Talbot
Donaldson's most important essays,
Speaking of Chaucer
Including the essential "Chaucer the Pilgrim."
Donald Howard's is
probably the best of the bunch
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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
the Pilgrim - Narrator & Chaucer the Author
See the famous portrait of Chaucer
addressing the court of Richard II from the frontispiece of Troilus
and Criseyde in CCCC MS 61 (c. 1399-1413, courtesy of James Simpson,
Cambridge).
See Thomas
Hoccleve's portrait of Chaucer from the Regiment of Princes (1412)
(Larry Benson, Harvard).
See Chaucer's
Portrait from the famous Ellesmere manuscript (Ellesmere 26 C 9,
Huntington Library, San Marino, California).
1. In Middle English
The General
Prologue at the University of Virginia's Electronic
Text Center (from Robinson 1957).
The General
Prologue at the University of Michigan's Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose
(from Robinson 1957).
2. In Modern English Translation
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
Guilds were an integral part of medieval society, both in towns and in the
countryside. Peruse Medieval
English Towns, Stephen Alsford's excellent site for more information about all aspects
of town culture.
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
A
number of capsule Chaucer biographies are available online, some more useful than others.
The best is the Life of
Chaucer at the Harvard Chaucer Page. Others include are listed on the Luminarium
Chauce: Additional Sources
page.
Read Thomas Hoccleve's (1368–1450?) lament for his literary father in Lament
for Chaucer, from The
Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900, by Arthur Quiller-Couch
(1919) at Bartleby.com.
Bartleby.com continues to do a great service to the educational community
by making available out-of-copyright editions of valuable older scholarly
texts.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
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 Chaucer's
life and narrative voice include:
6. Online Articles & Books
Chaucer Sourcebook, from the
Harvard Chaucer Page, offers a number of classic and professional essays from noted
Chaucerians, including:
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
A
number of portraits of Chaucer have been recorded:
More images of Chaucer have come online recently:
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
12. Potpourri
A number of online reference works contain brief articles or overviews of
Chaucer's life. These are suitable only for elementary school use or
for the casual reader wanting to know the basic contours of Chaucer's life
and times. They are not suitable for college level work..
13. The
Next Step
See the
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf
for recommended
texts from Google Book Search& Microsoft Live Search.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar 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.
Because it
does not make full texts available,
at this point
Google Scholar is best used as a bibliographical
resource.
Google Book Search & Microsoft
Live Search
These projects
are also showing their growing pains, but they
make a number of (primarily) older studies related to
Chaucer and medieval literature and culture in full
text. You can
contribute to the success of this effort by informing Google
or Microsoft of any incorrect scans, missing pages, or other errors.
Only out-of-copyright books are
available in full and some of the scans are
messy. I will cross list the relevant titles
at the Electronic Canterbury Tales -
Online Books and Essays main page and at the appropriate
web page for each Canterbury Tale.
Google Custom
Search
You can search for handpicked websites related to
Chaucer and medieval culture as recommended by ECT users.
I welcome your
suggestions for suitable websites. Please be patient as
I tune the search terms.
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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
Something Extra?
Free Books!
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf
(no cost, older academic books,
in .pdf
form from the
Google Library Project &
Microsoft Book Search Live)
Cheap Books!
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
(recommended books for the study of
Chaucer and Late-Medieval England)
The
Kankedort
Gift Shoppe
(with many serious and some silly offerings for the medievalist
in your
life)
Netflix.com
Calls for Papers
Call
for Papers database from the University of Pennsylvania CFP listserv
Build Your Chaucer & Medieval
Studies Library!
Save 50-80%
at The Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop (a new page with affiliated online booksellers)
Visit
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop, hosted by Amazon.com
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!
For those in
the UK?
Daniel T. Kline's
Legacy Web Page
(The Kankedort Page) at the U of Alaska Anchoragee
Please be advised that I no longer update most of these pages, so many of the links are likely to be bad,
but will keep them alive in the ongoing battle against "link rot."
Highly Recommended!
Challenge Your Vision of Chaucer with These Critically Acclaimed,
Contemporary
BBC Versions
of
The Miller's Tale, The Wife Of Bath, The Knight's
Tale, The Sea
Captain's (Shipman's) Tale, The Pardoner's Tale & The Man Of Law's Tale
Excellent for Classroom Use!
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