Geoffrey Chaucer: 
The Electronic Canterbury Tales


Daniel T. Kline | U of Alaska Anchorage | Dept of English | CV | Pedagogy  

 


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Electronic Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page

  1. The Canterbury Tales in Middle English

  2. The Canterbury Tales in Translation

  3. General Historical & Cultural Backgrounds

  4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts

  5. Online Notes & Commentary

  6. Online Articles & Books

  7. Student Projects & Essays

  8. Online Bibliography

  9. Syllabi & Course Descriptions

  10. Images & Multimedia

  11. Audio Files & Language Helps

  12. Potpourri

  13. Additional Resources

  14. Scholar's Dozen

  15. 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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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 Parson's Tale

1.  In Middle English

The Parson's Prologue and Parson's Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center

Read the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment X - Group I

Chaucer's Retraction 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. 

3.  Historical & Cultural Backgrounds

The followers of John Wycliffe, called Lollards, were an important group during the later 14th century and their doctrines seem to have some intersection with Chaucer's Parson.

The New Advent Catholic Website hosts a number of important resources, especially the online Catholic Encyclopedia (1913 ed.) and its thousands of entries. Although reflecting an earlier period of  scholarship, entries relevant to the Parson's Tale include:

4.  Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts

The Parson's brother, the Plowman (see General Prologue) would have been affected by the 1349 Ordinance of Laborers and the 1351 Statute of Laborers, designed to regulate wages and labor after the first wave of the Black Death in 1348.

5.  Online Notes & Commentary

L. Kip Wheeler offers a nice overview of The Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Holy Virtues (Carson Newman College. The ParT is organized around the Seven Deadly Sins.

Discussion and links concerning the Parson's Prologue and Tale (link not active) 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 Parson's Tale include:

6.  Online Essays & Books

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.  Jokkinen also compiles a number of resources by Canterbury Tale: The Parson's Tale

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 Parson's Tale.

In the Man of Law's endlink, the Host accuses the Parson of being a "lollar" and the Lollard Society Homepage offers a number of interesting links to resources related to this late-medieval social and religious movement.  

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.

  • The Kankedort Medieval Studies Search Engine
     

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:

  • The Poor Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf: No cost books (generally older studies) available via the Google Books project and other public online projects. 

  • The ECT Bookshop: Scroll down to the Electronic Canterbury Tales Bookshop (with recommended titles) hosted by Amazon.com.

  • 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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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


 

 

 

 

 

 


Websites for Calls for Papers

Call for Papers database from the University of Pennsylvania CFP listserv

The Electronic Canterbury Tales Affiliated 
Bookstores

 

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Daniel T. Kline's
 Legacy Web Pages at the U of Alaska Anchorage

Please be advised that I no longer update these pages, so many of the links are likely to be bad

About the Website
Approaching Chaucer

Assessing Web Sites

Assignment Ideas

Documentation Primer

Documentation Rules of Thumb

Error Codes for Written Work

Grading Criteria for Written Work

Home Page

The Next Step

Chaucer Pedagogy Page

Plagiarism: Understanding & Beating It

Resources for Students

Resources for Teachers

Teaching Notes

So many schools now use courseware such as WebCT and Blackboard that the early experiments in 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."


Highly Recommended

The Recent, Critically Acclaimed BBC Versions 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

Region 2 DVD
PAL Format

 

The Electronic Canterbury Tales 

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