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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
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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:
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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
WHAT'S NEW?
The
Nun's Priest's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Nun's
Priest's Prologue (The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale), the Nun's
Priest's Tale, and Epilogue
at the UVa Electronic Text Center
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 Epilogue to the Nun's
Priest's Tale (from an unknown base text).
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
In the Nun's Priest's Tale, Chaucer refers obliquely to "Jakke Straw
and his meynee" (B2.3394), the supposed leaders of the 1381 Uprising
(the Peasant's Revolt). See James N. Dean's Medieval
Political Writings, part of the peerless TEAMS series, for a generous
selection of interesting contemporary texts, particularly the Literature
of Richard's Reign and the Peasants Revolt:
The
Nun's Priest wears his great learning lightly and is a bit of a name dropper, especially
when it comes to medieval philosophy (B2.4431-32). See the entries in James Fieser's
(Tennessee - Martin) Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, which contains brief but authoritative entries on medieval thinkers and
topics:
See
also the online Catholic Encyclopedia entries on Augustine and Boethius.
The specificity of
the old woman's house and courtyard in the Nun's Priest's Tale might be
illuminated by the research on Wharram
Percy, a "lost medieval village" that has been the site of
extensive archaeological research since 1950. See especially the details
of the toft and
croft of peasant homes.
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
As a
beast fable, the Nun's Priest's Tale shares an iconographic (pictorial) tradition with the
images in the wonderful and whimsical Aberdeen Online Bestiary.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, and Epilogue 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 Nun's Priest's Tale include:
L. Kip Wheeler offers a very nice overview of Oneiromancy
and Dreams, a subject of concern in the Nun's Priest's Tale
(Carson-Newman College)
6. Online Books & Articles
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 Nun's
Priest's Tale include
- Elaine Tuttle Hanson's Chaucer and
the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).
- Steven V. Justice's Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381
(Berkeley: U of California P, 1994).
- 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).
Chaucer Sourcebook, from the
Harvard Chaucer Page, offers a number of classic and professional essays from noted
Chaucerians, including:
- Charles Muscatine, ""The Nun's Priest's Tale,"
Chaucer and the French Tradition, pp. 237-43.
- All articles on the Harvard Chaucer Page reprinted by
permission.
Essays in Medieval
Studies, full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association,
online version edited by Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola - Chicago), including:
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
Dene
Scoggins' English 316 site
(UT Austin) explores "culture, ideology, and issues of canonicity" in the
Canterbury Tales, including a student developed page devoted to the Nun's
Priest'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
Nun's Priest's Tale
8. Online Bibliography
Anniina
Jokinen's excellent Annotated
Bibliography to the Nun's Priest's Tale
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
Sample
audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Nun's
Priest's Tale, recorded at the 9th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society,
Trinity College, Dublin, 1994, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul Thomas, Brigham
Young).
12. Potpourri
13. The
Next Step
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Google Scholar
Google Book
Google Custom
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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!
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