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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
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Student Projects
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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
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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
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ECT Revision History:
What's
New?
Please see the write up below
for full details on the
new Electronic Canterbury Tales at
www.kankedort.net
Announcements
- Major site redesign and migration
on 4 December 2006, including
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Migration to new domain:
www.kankedort.net
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Main index page subdivided
according to 13 subheadings (with navigation headings in the left frame)
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Redesign and reformat of ECT
pages
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Major additions to each page
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New research tools on each
page
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Two newish pages:
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See also
Headings,
Site Organization, & Criteria for Inclusion
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Last revision on
05 January 2007
Accessing the old Electronic Canterbury Tales URL at the
University of Alaska Anchorage should yield an automatic redirect
to the new web address as of 4 December 2006. Please
update your bookmarks accordingly.
Brief Overview
The Electronic Canterbury Tales has a
three-fold structure, including:
- General resources related to
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales (now subdivided into 13+ separate
webpages), accessible in the upper left frame;
- Specific web resources
related to each Canterbury Tale (accessible via the
navigation list in the lower left frame);
- Other web pages related to
specific Chaucerian topics (accessible in the right frame)
Additionally, the Electronic Canterbury
Tales continues to search out pedagogical and professional sources
like course syllabi, medieval societies, and other related materials.
Look for a major upgrade and revision of
the Chaucer Pedagogy section of the
Electronic Canterbury Tales in
the not to distant future.
1 December 2006
The Electronic Canterbury Tales' New URL:
After hosting the
Electronic Canterbury Tales on
University of Alaska webservers since 1998 (and adapting to 5
different domain changes during that time), I have decided (in the face
of yet another reorganization of the UAA Information Technology Services
infrastructure) to take the website off the UAA servers and onto
its own new domain <www.kankedort.net>
on 6 December 2006.
This move will insure that the
Electronic Canterbury Tales URLs
will remain stable and will mean that users linking to the site
will have to update their links just this one last time. It will
also mean a higher profile for the Electronic Canterbury Tales on
web search engines.
Why Ads?
The biggest change users will notice is
the inclusion of advertising links and images (many to excellent
online booksellers, with specifically recommend titles
related to Chaucer and medieval studies). My only hope is to make enough
to pay for hosting and bandwidth costs. I will also
endeavor to make any ads at least useful rather than overly obtrusive.
Please ignore them if they bug you.
It'll take me awhile to "tune" the
website and make it as user-friendly as possible.
Ad Servers & Banned Websites
I do not have complete control over which ads are served to the
individual ECT pages, and will likely never see the same
combination of ads that any of you see. But I can submit "banned"
URLs to be blocked from ECT webpages. (For example, I have
blocked the most popular plagiarism sites, essay mills, and term
paper "help" sites. However, that does not mean that some might slip
through, despite my best efforts. At the same time, determined
students will find a way to cheat, despite any teacher's best efforts.
In the meantime, if you are served with
an ad that you find objectionable, for any reason,
please:
- Note the ad content, and
- If possible, get the URL of
the offensive ad, &
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Email it to me.
I'll do my best to take care of it,
pronto.
I Need Your Input
This has been, and continues to be, a real learning process for me, and I will happily
receive your feedback
about the new
Electronic Canterbury Tales. Here's what's up with
www.kankedort.net.

1. ECT Site Redesign
- Redesigned the format of all
ECT webpages (particularly the addition of a right navigational
and informational frame),
- Segmented the overly large,
slow loading ECT main page into 13 subpages, and
- Migrated the ECT website to
its own web domain, http://www.kankedort.net.
- Please be patient as I retune the
website for its new WWW home.

2. Major Additions to the Electronic Canterbury Tales
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The
Poor Medieval Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf
(where I list and link to no cost, older academic books, in .pdf
form from the Google Library Project). I'll continue to add to this
list as more texts become available.
- The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
(which lists recommended books for the study of
Chaucer and Late-Medieval England, hosted by Amazon.com, with links to
other online book sellers).
- The
Kankedort
Gift Shoppe (in which you
may find many serious and some silly offerings for the medievalist in your
life).
It's a real-time peek at the Chaucer and
Medieval offerings on ebay.com.

3. New Research Tools

I'll continue to regularly update the
site, as usual, and to introduce new features that make the site more
useable and interactive.
Legend
I'll attempt to keep track of the
major revisions & additions here on this page so that
users don't necessarily have to hunt through the individual pages for new
material.
- New material will added to the appropriate
heading on the index pages and/or individual tale pages, will be indicated on each page with a
symbol, and will remain noted until the next major revision of
that page.
- Long-term links that are down at the
time of a revision will be
indicated with a
symbol; I'll check
on over several weeks before deleting them.
- Highly recommended links get
a little meritorious badge
!
- Special announcements will be indicated with a
symbol.
August 2006
Increased the width of all ECT pages to 800
pixels.
Added a new subheading to the Images and
Multimedia index page on Maps and Cartography, including:
Although not Chaucer related, the Archimedes
Palimpsest, detailing the efforts of scientists and scholars to
recover the earliest Greek text of Archimedes' The Method, Stomachion,
and On Floating Bodies beneath the text of a 10th century prayer
book, is a fascinating website describing state-of-the art conservation
and recovery technologies applied to a medieval manuscript. Well worth a
look.
Although a commercial site, billyandcharlie.com, specialists in pewter,
has affordable and lovely modern reproductions of pilgrim badges and
ampullae from medieval Canterbury, including:
I receive no royalties from
billyandcharlie.com sales, unfortunately.
Gallica, the website of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), has also made available online page images
of a number of older, out of copyright journals related to Chaucer and
medieval studies, like:
Some of the absolutely classic
Chaucer-related articles from these journals include:
Click on
Périodiques to go to a full listing of BNF online journals (most of
which are in French). These are large, generally slow loading graphical
images, but are valuable nonetheless.
Gallica, the website of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France, has made available online page images
of an invaluable source, the Acta Sanctorum (Deeds of the
Saints), from the Bollandist Society:
Click "Periodiques" at the main page, and
scroll down to "Religions chretiennes"
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
(University College, Cork) houses cornucopia of material related to medieval
Ireland, many in modern English translation, including:
- The Annals of Ulster AD 431-1201
(HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Annals of Ulster AD
1202-1378 (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Annals of Ulster AD
1379-1541(HTML
and PLAIN)
- Chronicon Scotorum
(HTML
& PLAIN)
- St. Columba
- On the Life of Saint
Columba [Betha Choluim Chille] (W. Stokes)
(HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Life of Columba,
written by Adamnan (W. Reeves)(HTML
& PLAIN)
- Monks' Rules of Columbanus
(G. S. M. Walker) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- Sermons of Columbanus
(G. S. M. Walker) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- Letters of Columbanus
(G. S. M. Walker) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Irish Lives of Guy of Warwick &
Bevis of Hampton (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Irish Version of the Historia
Britonum of Nennius (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Kildare Poems
Modern
English by A. Lucas (HTML
and PLAIN)
- On the Life of Saint Patrick [Betha
Phatraic] (W. Stokes) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- On the Life of Saint Brigit [Betha
Brigte] (W. Stokes)(HTML
& PLAIN)
- Tidings of Doomsday (W. Stokes) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The Tidings of the Resurrection
(W. Stokes)
(HTML
& PLAIN)
- The fifteen tokens of Doomsday
(W. Stokes) (HTML
& PLAIN)
- The vision of Laisrén (HTML
& PLAIN)
As of 31 July 2006, CELT offered 649 texts
(many from later periods of literature, and also in SGML).
July 2006: Major repairs, revisions,
& additions:
1. Major repair (more than 1200 broken links).
2. Added a number of miscellaneous
links.
3. Deep linking to
- The Canterbury Tales Project
resources
- Essays in Medieval Studies online
- The Medieval Review online
- The 1995 Cultural Frictions conference
at Georgetown U
- Paul Halsall's IMSB, "The
Calamitous Fourteenth Century"
- Hallsall's Internet Jewish Sourcebook
(on the ECT Prioress's Tale page)
4. Although a commercial site,
billyandcharlie.com, specialists in pewter,
has affordable and lovely modern reproductions of pilgrim badges and
ampullae from medieval Canterbury, including:
I receive no royalties from
billyandcharlie.com sales, unfortunately.
5. Barbara Bordalejo,
current director of the Canterbury Tales Project, has also generously made
her two dissertations available online (unrevised):
The Phylogeny of the Tale-Order in
the Canterbury Tales (NYU):
The Manuscript Source of Caxton's
Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales and Its Place in the Textual
Tradition of the Tales (DeMonfort U):
Bordalejo also states, "Although these
versions are thought to be the same as those publically available through
University of Michigan, as a textual critic I am aware that 'textual
control' is never as strict as one thinks. I would appreciate if you could
contact me if you intend to quote from these works."
6.
The Prioress's Tale
evidences one of the most pernicious aspects of medieval culture: Its
pervasive antisemitism. So, the tale explicitly invokes the multifaceted
relationship of Christianity and Judaism. Part of Paul Halsall's
extensive Internet
Medieval Source Book, the Internet
Jewish History Source Book houses an extensive collection of primary
sources related to the Jewish
Middle Ages. Some of the extensive listing of documents under
Christian Anti-Semitism / Latin Christianity, relating specifically to
England include (lightly edited):
Continental and Papal pronouncements
include:
Relations between Christians and Jews in
England are illustrated by the following. (I've slightly edited and
rearranged some of Halsall's links here for their relevance to
England):
- Gilbert Crispin: Disputation
of a Jew with a Christian about the Christian Faith, before 1096
- Anselm of Canterbury: How
to Treat a Convert, before 1100
- Contact
between English Jews and Christians: Two Twelfth-century Views
- An
Israelite Bishop without Guile, c. 1168
- Gerald of Wales: A
Witty Jew, c. 1185
- Henry II of England: Concerning
Loans From The Jews
- The
Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1182 (Account by Rigord from
the Gesta Philippi Augusti).
- Richard I of England: Charter
by Which Many Liberties are Granted and Confirmed to the Jews, 22
March, 1190
- English Jewry is Organised: The
Ordinances of the Jews, 1194
- Appointment
of an Archpriest of the Jews in England, July 1199
- King John of England and the Jews: Charters,
c.1201
7. I found another geocities.com website that
houses a number of Chaucer essays:
-
Authorizing
the Reader in Chaucer's House of Fame by Laurel Amtower
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No
Joke: Transcendent Laughter in the Teseida and the Miller's
Tale by Timothy D. Arner
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"Wel
bet is roten appul out of hoord": Chaucer's Cook, Commerce, and
Civic Order by Craig E. Bertolet
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"Of
Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyf": Confusion of Orifices in
Chaucer's Miller Tale by Louise M. Bishop
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The
Pardoner's Hyprocrisy of his Subjectivity by Robert Boenig
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Alma
Redemptoris Mater, Gaude Maria, and the Prioress's Tale
by Robert Boenig
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'Shot
Wyndowe; (Miller's tale, I.3358 and 3695): An open and shut case?
by Peter Brown
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Chaucer's
The Cook's Tale by Olga Burakov
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Performing
the Prioress: "Conscience" and responsibility in studies of
Chaucer's Prioress's tale by Michael Calabrese
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The
Desolate Palace and the Solitary City: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Dante
by Robert R. Edwards
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The
Ending of Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale by P. J. C. Field
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Petrach,
Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale by John Finlayson
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"Little
Troilus": Heroides 5 and its Ovidian contexts in Chaucer's
Troilus and Criseyde by Jamie C. Fumo
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Faux
Semblants: Antifraternalism Reconsidered in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
by G. Geltner
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The
Summoner's Jankyn as an Artifical Fool by Stephen Harper
The Name of
Chaucer's Miller by Carole Hough
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Pastoral
Histories: Utopia, Conquest, and the Wife of Bath's Tale by
Patricia Clare Ingham
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'Loo,
lordes myne, heere is a fit!': The Structure of Chaucer's Sir Thopas
by E. A. Jones
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What
Ails Chaucers' Cook? Spiritual Alchemy and the Ending of The
Canterbury Tales by Michael Kensak
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Apollo
exterminans: The God of Poetry in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale
by Michael Kensak
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"Myne
by right": Oath Making and Intent in The Friar's Tale
by Daniel T. Kline
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"And
riden in Belmarye": Chaucer's General Prologue, Line 57
by Jeanne Krochalis
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The
Mercantile (Mis)reader in the Canterbury Tales by Roger A.
Ladd
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The
Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the "Canon's Yeoman's
Tale" by James H. Landman
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Romancing
Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Levinas: Fortune, Moral Luck, and
Erotic Adventure by J. Allan Mitchell
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Chaucer's
Clerk's Tale and the Question of Ethical Monstrosity by J.
Allan Mitchell
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Experience
and the Judgement of Poetry: A Reconsideration of The Franklin's
Tale by Gerald Morgan
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Hard
Lords and Bad Food-service in the Monk's Tale by Scott
Norsworthy
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Interpreting
Female Agency and Responsibility in the Miller's Tale and the Merchant's
Tale by Joseph D. Parry
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Chaucer's
Rape, Southern Racism, and the Pedagogical Ethics of Authorial
Malfeasance by Tison Pugh
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Queer
Pandarus? Silence and Sexual Ambiguity in Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde by Tison Pugh
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"The
Summoner's Tale" and Proverbs 21.14 by Thomas Rand
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May
in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's
Tale by Christian Sheridan
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Speech,
Circumspection, and Orthodontics in the Manciple's Prologue and
Tale and The Wife of Bath's Portrait by Mel Storm
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Public
Fantasy and the Logic of Sacrifice in The Physician's Tale
by Michael Uebel
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A
Woman in the Mind's Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer's Clerks's
Tale by Robin Waugh
8. Michael Delahoyde has posted an eminently
readable series of notes to the General Prologue and each of the
Canterbury Tales at his Washington State U website:
9. The B.
Davis Schwartz Memorial Library at Long Island University has made
available a
number of images of the stunningly beautiful Ellesmere ms:
You can easily see difference in quality of
the El ms as compared to most other pre-1500 Chaucer ms.
10. Other images added:
- The
"pilgrim steps"
leading to Thomas Becket's tomb at Caterbury Cathedral (Frederick
Christian Bauerschmidt, Loyola, Maryland).
- Stained
glass image of St. Thomas Becket (Canterbury Cathedral, 13th
century) (Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Loyola, Maryland).
- London's Inner
Temple, the 'law school' where the Manciple is said to have served
(A.567) and the Sergeant of Law would have been trained (A.309-30),
has put online a concise account of its history and development.
See images
of the Hengwrt ms at the National Library of Wales website.
See the
detailed images at Kevin Kiernan's webpage (UKentucky) of
(Hg)
National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392 D
(El)
Henry E. Huntington Library MS. El.26C.9
(La)
British Library MS. Lansdowne 851
The Huntington Library Press has
released several
images online in conjunction with their publication, The
Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by Herbert C.
Schulz.
The University of Chicago has issued
a centennial celebration that includes profiles of noted faculty, like
J.M.
Manley and Edith Rickert:
- "In 1924, John Matthews Manly
proposed a systematic study of the complete works of Geoffrey
Chaucer, anticipating that the work "would necessarily
require several years." Although the "several
years" were to become sixteen, Manly and his collaborator,
Edith Rickert, produced the eight-volume edition of The Text of
the Canterbury Tales (1940) that was immediately hailed as the
defining work in the field of Chaucerian studies."
- Their discoveries included University
of Chicago Ms. 564, a "mid-fifteenth-century codex is one
of fifty-seven relatively complete manuscript copies of the Tales
and one of only two containing a passage from the 'Tale of
Melibeus'."
11. 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, including the following:
- From The Canterbury Tales Project:
Occasional Papers, Volume 1, ed. Norman Blake and Peter Robinson
(Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1993):
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Norman Blake &
Peter Robinson, "Preface" (pp. 1-4)
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Norman Blake,
"Editing the Canterbury Tales: An Overview" (pp. 5-18)
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Peter Robinson &
Elizabeth Solopova, "Guidelines for Transcription of the
Manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's Prologue" (pp. 19-52)
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Robert O'Hara &
Peter Robinson, "Computer-assisted Methods of Stemmatic
Analysis" (pp. 53-74)
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Daniel Mosser, "A
New Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the Canterbury
Tales" (pp. 75-84)
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Stephen Partridge,
"The Canterbury Tales Glosses and the Manuscript
Groups" (pp. 85-94)
-
From The Canterbury
Tales Project: Occasional Papers, Volume 2, ed. Norman Blake and
Peter Robinson (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1997):
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Norman Blake &
Peter Robinson: "Preface" (pp. 1-4)
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Norman Blake:
"The Project's Lineation System" (pp. 5-14)
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Simon Horobin:
"Editorial Assumptions and the Manuscripts of The Canterbury
Tales" (pp. 15-21)
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Beverly Kennedy:
"Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by
Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants" (pp. 23-39)
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Daniel W. Mosser:
"The Language, Hands and Interaction of the Two Scribes of
the Egerton 2726 Chaucer Manuscript (En1" (pp. 41-53)
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Michael Pidd &
Estelle Stubbs: "From Medieval Manuscripts to Electronic
Text: A Transcriber's Tale" (pp. 55-59)
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Michael Pidd, Estelle
Stubbs & Claire E. Thomson: "The Hengwrt Canterbury
Tales: Inadmissible Evidence?" (pp. 61-68)
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Peter Robinson:
"A Stemmatic Analysis of the Fifteenth-Century Witnesses to
The Wife of Bath's Prologue" (pp. 69-132)
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Elizabeth Solopova:
"The Problem of Authorial Variants in The Wife of Bath's
Prologue" (pp. 133-142)
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Elizabeth Solopova:
"Chaucer's Metre and Scribal Editing in the Early Manuscripts
of The Canterbury Tales" (pp. 143-164)
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Reviews: of the
Variorum General Prologue; of The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century
Continuations and Additions; of the Cowen/Kane edition of The
Legend of Good Women (pp. 165-179)
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From the Canterbury Tales
Project CDs:
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Peter Robinson, "Editor's
Introduction, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM,
ed. Peter Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).
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Peter Robinson and
Norman Blake, "General
Editors' Preface;" Elizabeth Solopova, Editor's
Introduction;" Peter Robinson, "Analysis
Workshop," The General Prologue on CD-ROM, ed.
Elizabeth Solopova (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000).
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Estelle Stubbs, "Editor's
Introduction;" Daniel W. Mosser, "Manuscript
Description;" Simon Horobin, "The
Language of the Hengwrt Chaucer," From The Hengwrt
Chaucer Digital Facsimile, ed. Estelle Stubbs (Scholarly
Digital Editions, 2000).
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Peter Robinson, "Editor's
Introduction" and "Rationale
and Implementation of the Collation System Used on this CD-ROM,"
The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson (Scholarly
Digital Editions, 2004).
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12. Essays in Medieval Studies,
full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association, edited by
Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola - Chicago). Some of the articles related to
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales include:
- Norman D. Hinton, "The
Canterbury Tales" as Compilatio," Essays in Medieval
Studies 1 (1984), n.p.
- John M. Hill, Chaucer's
"Canterbury Tales": The Idea!," Essays in
Medieval Studies 2 (1985), n.p.
- Robert V. Graybill, Chaucer's
"The Miller's Tale": Exemplum of Caritas," Essays
in Medieval Studies 2 (1985), n.p.
- Frank N. Schleicher,
The
Yeoman Transmuted: An evolution of Penitence and Poetry," Essays
in Medieval Studies 3 (1986), n.p.
- James E. Hicks, Chaucer's
Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in "The Pardoner's Prologue and
Tale," Essays in Medieval Studies 3 (1986), n.p.
- Robert V. Graybill, Humor
and Humor and Humor and Chaucer," Essays in Medieval
Studies 3 (1986), n.p.
- Thomas A. Goodman, "The
nakid text": "Glosynge" as Distortion," Essays
in Medieval Studies 5 (1988), n.p.
- Susan Yager, The
End of Knowledge: The Argus Legend and Chaucer," Essays
in Medieval Studies 10 (1993), n.p.
- Ann W. Astell, "The
Peasants' Revolt: Cock-crow in Gower and Chaucer," Essays
in Medieval Studies 10 (1993), n.p.
- Barbara Hanawalt, Narratives
of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England,"
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995), n.p.
- Daniel T. Kline, Textuality
and Subjectivity: Theorizing the Figure of the Child in Middle English
Literature,"
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995), n.p.
- Jane Cowgill, Chaucer's
Missing Children,"
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995), n.p.
- David A. Flory, The
Social Uses of Religious Literature: Challenging Authority in the
Thirteenth-Century Marian Miracle Tale,"
Essays in Medieval Studies 13 (1996), n.p.
- Bryon Grigsby, The
Social Position of the Surgeon in London, 1350-1450,"
Essays in Medieval Studies 13 (1996), n.p.
- Timothy A. Shonk, B.L.
Harley MS 7333: The "Publication" of Chaucer in the Rural
Areas,"
Essays in Medieval Studies 15 (1998), n.p.
- Nicole Lassahn, Chaucer
and Langland: Literary Representations of History in
Fourteenth-Century England,"
Essays in Medieval Studies 17 (2000), n.p.
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After the 2002 volume, new issues of
EMS will be available only through subscription to Johns Hopkins Project
Muse online journal service.
13. Chaucer Book Reviews (Edwin Duncan,
Towson State) from The Medieval Review,
an online book review listserv from Western Michigan University. Reviewed
books include:
- 96.01.05,
Lerer, Chaucer and His Readers
- 96.03.02,
Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the
Twelfth Century to Chaucer
- 96.03.03,
Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the
Twelfth Century to Chaucer
- 96.10.03,
Beidler, ed., Chaucer's The Wife of Bath
- 97.02.12,
Calabrese, Chaucer's Ovidian Arts (Kennedy)
- 97.05.06,
Minnis et. al., Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems (Wetherbee)
- 98.03.04,
Higuchi, Studies in Chaucer's English (Eliason)
- 98.05.02,
Wallace, Chaucerian Polity (Bishop)
- 98.06.08,
Grudin, Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse (Davidson)
- 98.07.10,
Cox, Gender and Language in Chaucer (Sturges)
- 98.08.06,
Howes, Chaucer's Gardens (Martin)
- 98.08.08,
Rigby, Chaucer in Context (Kaminsky)
- 98.10.08,
Bisson, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World (Rigby)
- 99.02.13,
Andretta, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Utz)
- 99.03.09,
Cullen, Chaucer's Host (Parry)
- 99.06.08,
Davenport, Chaucer and His English Contemporaries (Evans)
- 99.06.09,
McGerr, Chaucer's Open Books (Parry)
- 99.10.02,
Percival, Chaucer's Legendary Good Women (Vaughan)
- 99.10.06,
Russell, Chaucer and the Trivium (Roney)
- 00.01.03,
Obst, Die Sprache Chaucers (Utz)
- 00.02.07,
Pinti, ed., Writing After Chaucer (McGavin)
- 00.03.21,
Condren, Chaucer and the Energy of Creation (Hanning)
- 00.06.01,
Cullen, Pilgrim Chaucer (Trigg)
- 01.02.05,
McGavin, Chaucer and Dissimilarity
(Russell)
- 02.03.23,
Schildgen, Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's
(Utz)
- 02.09.12,
Pope, How to Study Chaucer (Evans)
- 03.01.22,
Chaucer, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, ed.
Eisner (Laird)
- 03.02.16,
Braswell, Chaucer's "Legal
Fiction" (Gravlee)
- 03.03.29,
Swanton, English Poetry before Chaucer (Yager)
- 03.10.03,
Burger, Chaucer's Queer Nation (Drake)
- 04.10.01,
Horobin, The Language of the Chaucer
Tradition (Harding)
- 04.12.04,
Delany, ed., Chaucer and the Jews (Schildgen)
- 05.01.08,
Boitani & Mann, eds., Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
(Scott Lightsey)
- 05.01.09,
Utz, Chaucer and the Discourse of German
Philology (Frakes)
- 05.03.05,
Gray, ed., Oxford Companion to Chaucer (Kuczynski)
- 05.08.07,
Prendergast, Chaucer's Dead Body (Fredell)
- 06.02.25,
Carlson, Chaucer's Jobs (Akbari)
- 06.06.12,
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans.
Glaser (Bishop)
14. The articles from Cultural
Frictions: Medieval Cultural Studies in Post-Modern Contexts Conference Proceedings
(27-28 October 1995, ed. Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart) are available
online:
Unfolding the Middle Ages
Bounding Culture
Queering Medieval Culture
The Circulation of Cultural Bodies
15. The "Calamitous" Fourteenth
Century (Paul Hallsall, IMSB), a web page of primary sources on this pivotal century,
provides important background to Chaucer's era, including the Black Death, the Great
Schism, the Hundred Years War, and the "Peasant's Revolt" of 1381.
Here is a representative sample of Halsall's excellent work (lightly
edited):
The
"Calamitous" 14th Century
- A Malthusian Crisis?
- The Black Death
- Procopius: The
Plague, 542, History of the Wars (II.xxii-xxxiii):
Description of the onset of the earlier "plague of Justinian."
- [Tierney 84] Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron:
Introduction, on the Black Death, as is another
version. The entire Decameron
is also available (VaTech).
- The
Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349.
Contains: The Confession of Agimet of Geneva, , October 20,
1349; Jacob von Königshofen (1346-1420); Chonicle; The
Epitaph of Asher aben Turiel, Toledo, Spain, 1349
- Warfare
- Orders
for the English Fleet, 1326
(Hillsdale College).
- [Tierney 85, Geary 46.1. 46.2] Jean
Froissart: Battles
of Crecy 1346, of Poitiers 1356, from Chronicles.
- [Tierney 86, Geary 46.3] Jean
Froissart: The
Jacquerie, 1358, from Froissart's Chronicles.
- Jean Froissart: The
English Peasant Revolt, 1381, from Chronicles (
Clinch Valley College).
- [Tierney 87] Anonimalle Chronicle:
Peasant
Uprising of 1381.
- Tales
from Froissart (At
Unipissing).
Selection of short excerpts from Froissart.
- Sir Jean Froissart: John
of Gaunt in Portugal, 1385
- Sir Jean Froissart: How
Philip van Artevelde was Made Governor of Ghent, 1386
- The
Hundred Years War In The High Court of Parlement( trans. Fred
Cheyette).
- Hundred Years War: Treaty
of Troyes, 1420 and Conditions in France in 1422.
Ecclesiastical
Disarray
- The Great Schism
- Conciliarism
- The Papal Response
Late
Medieval Governments
- See the specific Medieval
Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History page
- The Empire
- Italy
- Bartolus of Sassoferrato: On
the Tyrant, c.1330, trans. Steve Lane [slane@tezcat.com],
on tyranny in Italian city government.
- [Tierney 95] Machiavelli: Discourses
- on papacy, copyrighted
- France
- England
- [Tierney 93] Parliamentary Rolls:
Deposition of Richard II 1399, copyrighted.
March 2006:
Repaired broken image links.
Added 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), including:
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The
Ellesmere Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
ed. F.J. Furnivall,
Chaucer Society, 1st ser., 2, 8, 16, 26, 32, 38, 50, 70 (1868-1879).
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The Hengwrt Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
ed. F.J. Furnivall,
Chaucer Society, 1st ser., 3, 9, 27, 39, 51, 71 (1869-1881).
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The Cambridge Ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales,
ed. F.J. Furnivall, Chaucer Society, 1st ser., 4, 10, 17, 28,
33, 40, 52, 66 (1868-1884).
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The Corpus Ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales,
ed. F.J. Furnivall, Chaucer Society, 1st ser., 5, 11, 18, 34,
41, 53, 67 (1868-1884).
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales,
ed. F.J. Furnivall,
Chaucer Society, 1st ser., 7, 13, 20, 36, 43, 55, 69 (1868-1884).
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The Harleian Ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
ed. F.J.
Furnivall, Chaucer Society, 1st ser., 73 (1885).
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The Petworth Ms. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
ed. F.J. Furnivall,
Chaucer Society, 1st ser., 6, 12, 19, 35, 42, 54, 68 (1868-1884).
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The Cambridge Ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, completed by
the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms),
ed. F.J. Furnivall, Chaucer
Society, 1st ser., 95, 96 (1902).
Michigan's Corpus
of Middle English Prose and Verse
added a number of works in Middle
English directly related Chaucer and other medieval authors, including
Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English (Paul Schaffner & Perry Willett,
UMichigan). A generous and admirable example of online scholarship, now
numbering 146 items (but without copyrighted critical apparatus). There
are far too many titles to list completely, but a sampling includes the
following treats:
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The Babees Book, ed. F.J. Furnivall, EETS OS 32 (1868).
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The Wycliffe Bible, ed. J. Forshall & F. Madden (Oxford, 1850).
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An English Chronicle of the Reigns of Richard II, Henry
IV, and Henry V . . . ed. J.S. Davies, Camden
Society 64 (1856).
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Cursor Mundi: A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth Century in
Four Versions, ed. R. Morris, EETS OS
57,59,62,66,68,99,101 (1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1892,1893).
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Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London:
A. D. 1387-1439, ed. F. J. Furnivall, EETS OS 78 (1882).
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Hali Meidenhad,
ed. O. Cockayne; rev. F.J. Furnivall, EETS OS 18
(1922).
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Hymns to the Virgin & Christ, the Parliament of devils, and Other
Religious Poems,
ed. F.J. Furnivall, EETS OS 24 (1867).
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King Horn; A Middle-English romance,
ed. J.Hall (Oxford, 1901).
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Altenglische legenden: Kindheit Jesu, Geburt Jesu, Barlaam und Josaphat,
St. Patrik's Fegefeuer,
ed. C. Horstmann (Paderborn, 1875).
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The Alliterative Morte Arthure,
ed. V. Krishna (New York, 1976).
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Pierce the Ploughmans Crede,
ed. W.W. Skeat, EETS OS 30 (1867).
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The Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483,
ed. C.L. Kingsford, Camden
Society, ser. 3, vols. 29 and 30 (1919).
-
Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, ed. T. Wright, rev. ed., EETS
OS 33 (1906).
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The Cision of Piers Plowman: A Critical Edition of the B-text...,
ed. A.V.C. Schmidt (London, 1978).
- Lydgate's
The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, ed. F.J. Furnivall, EETS ES 77,
83, 92 (1899, 1901, 1904).
- Mannyng's
Handlyng Synne, ed. F.J. Furnivall, EETS OS 119, 123 (1901, 1903).
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Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Part I only,
ed.
N. Davis (Oxford, 1971).
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The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted,
ed. F. D. Matthew,
EETS OS 74 (1880).
-
Select English works of John Wyclif. Vol.1 only,
ed. T. Arnold
(Oxford, 1869).
November 2005:
Added "Geoffrey
Chaucer" to the titles and headings of Electronic Canterbury Tales
pages to increase search engine visibility (hopefully). Changed main logo
image.
October 2005:
Major revision, as part of
a server migration. Elimination of broken links. Deep linking to a number
of new resources, including TEAMS Middle English Text
Series.
November 2003:
A light revision and
update, including:
The British Library has generously made available a
stunning online resource, Treasures
in Full: Caxton's Chaucer. You can examine the two Caxton editions of The
Canterbury Tales (1476 and 1483) individually
or compare them tale by tale. Transcriptions of these images can then
be examined folio by folio in Barbara
Bordalejo's online edition (Canterbury Tales Project, De Montfort
University). See also at this site:
Index to the Rolls Series
(99 volumes), with annotations (Steven H. Silver). The Rolls Series
is a vital collection of primary documents from medieval England,
including chronicles, lives of kings and saints, legal records, and texts
from other medieval institutions.
Medieval
Misconceptions (Stephen J. Harris, UMass and Bryon Grigsby, Centenary
College) offers succinct essays on several topics, addressing widely
misunderstood aspects of medieval life and culture::
April 2003: A few new links throughout the
ECT, including:
December 2002:
Deep linking to
Chaucer-related texts in the U
of California Press E-Scholarship Editions, including:
See also:
April 2002: Minor additions, including:
March 2002: A major edit and updating,
including:
- 11.07.01: (1) A number of new links
throughout the Electronic Canterbury Tales, drawn from established
websites and some exciting new resources, including Arnie Saunders'
very fine page, English
330: Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales. (2) Added a new page,
Manuscripts and Printed Editions. (3) Added a number of essays, notes,
and images to individual tales. (4) Eliminated all Amazon.com
references. I made a grand total of $2.54 from sales linked to
this site, but since Amazon doesn't pay anything under $100.00, the
money is purely virtual). I canned the program.
- 09.03.00: A major e-publishing venture,
the 18 volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature
(1907-21) is now online and offers substantive articles on all aspects
of medieval literature. In probably every case the opinions and
findings of these older scholars has been superceded by recent
investigations, but the CHMAL is still a grand resource and an
important critical milestone (11,000 pages & 303 chapters)
featuring essays by important figures in medieval literary
criticism.
- 8.25.00: Added new categories to each
page: 11. Images & Multimedia 12. Language Helps &
Recordings. Each ECT page now offers 13 categories:
- The Canterbury Tales in Middle English
- The Canterbury Tales in Modern English
Translation
- Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
- Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
- Online Notes & Commentary
- Online Articles
- Student Projects & Essays
- Online Bibliography
- Syllabi & Course Materials
Images & Multimedia
Language Helps & Audio Files
- Potpourri
- The Next Step
Full revision of all pages, updated links,
and new material added.
- 11.04.99:
Added chapters from Frederick Martin's (Tulane U) e-dissertation in
progress, Pilgrimage
in the Age of Schism: Chaucer, Sociological Poetics, and the Canterbury
Tales.
- 10.20.99:
Added Electronic
Primary Chaucer Texts: What's Available Online, a comprehensive
listing of Chaucerian texts online. Initiated Amazon Associates
program with book recommendations and active links to Amazon.com
on several ECT pages. If you by a book through a link to Amazon from
these web pages, I get a small cut (between 5%-15%). Maybe I'll earn
enough to actually buy one of the books myself, instead of having to
request them through my university's Inter-Library Loan service!
- 09.25.99:
Added articles from the online Catholic Encyclopedia (1913 ed.) to ECT
pages. This is an ongoing effort.
- 08.15.99:
Added Guestbook and Search Engine from <http://www.mycomputer.com>.
An utter failure.
- 08.10.99: Dominion
& Domination of the Gentle Sex: The Lives of Medieval Women
(Thinkquest) ; Medieval,
Renaissance, Reformation: Western Civ - Act II; The
Medieval Fiefdom Website (Thinkquest); Lynn
H. Nelson's introductory
lectures on medieval history;
Guide to Medieval
Terms (ORB), an alphabetized list of technical terms related to the
Middle Ages; several tale specific essays; medieval history and philosophy
courses on the ECT Main page.
- 07.22.99:
Addition of Chaucer in/and Popular Culture
and The Chaucer Pedagogy Page
to left frame.
- 07.02.99: Relevant links from D.L. Ashliman's (Department of
Germanic Languages and Literature, U. of Pitsburg) Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
added to Main, Miller, Prioress, Pardoner ECT pages. Audio files added from the Chaucer
Studio.
- 06.10.99: Harvard Chaucer Page links added to ECT pages.
- 06.06.99: Chaucer Pedagogy: Teacher Resources
updated, including new assignments. Assignments, K-12
added.
- 05.25.99: Documentation Primer added to
each ECT page.
- 05.04.99: The Electronic Canterbury Tales Webpage launched,
part of the Chaucer Pedagogy sub section of the Chaucer Metapage.
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