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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
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
If you need just one
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about the Canterbury Tales, this is it!
Helen Cooper's
Oxford Guide to the Canterbury Tales
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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
The
Single Best Site for Online Term Paper
& College Essay
See
especially the Purdue OWL publications:
Related Medieval Studies Course and Web Pages
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Don Adams (Central
Connecticut) offers brief discussions of key medieval philosophers on his
Medieval
and Renaissance Philosophy course page.
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Paul Halsall's excellent
HSRU 1300: Medieval History
(Fordham) course page is a fully hyperlinked introduction to the period, including
Islamic, Byzantine, and Iberian developments as well Latin Christendom. A feast of primary
sources and solid lecture notes.
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R.J.Kilcullen's very fine
PHIL 252: Medieval Philosophy
and PHIL 360: Later
Medieval Philosophy course pages (Macquarrie U) offers a detailed
Reading Guide to Boethius's
Consolation
as well as a number of other introductory (and downloadable!) lectures, notes, and primary
texts for figures like Abelard, Aquinas, Anselm, Averroes,
Ockham, Scotus, & Wycliffe.
See particularly his concise
Medieval Philosophy: An
Introduction.
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Don Adams (Central
Connecticut) offers brief discussions of key medieval philosophers on his
Medieval
and Renaissance Philosophy course page.
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See
Steven Reimer's excellent online course,
Manuscript
Studies: Medieval and Early Modern (U of Alberta), for an excellent
introduction and overview to the composition and development of medieval
texts.
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Steve Muhlberg's
Medieval
England, History 2425 offers a variety of resources (Nipissing U).
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See Dan Mosser's
History
of the English Language Website for online resources in historical
linguistics. See also the
International
Phonetic Association's website.
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Gary Rich's sublime
Ars
Subtilior. Music of the Late Medieval period and the generous list of
links there.
Societies &
Organizations
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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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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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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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Society
for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
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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
Websites for Calls for Papers
Call
for Papers database from the University of Pennsylvania CFP listserv
Major Medieval Conferences Websites
International
Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)
International
Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
Schools, Programs, and Local & Regional Organizations
Journal & Newsletter Homepages
Chaucernet:
An Academic Listserv (from Edwin Duncan, Towson U)
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An Online
Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The
Summoner's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Summoner's
Prologue and Summoner's
Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center.
Read the
Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment
III - Group D.
Read the Summoner's
Prologue and Tale according to the Hengwrt ms (Hg), one of the two most important
early manuscripts, at the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line
site. The Ellesmere ms (El) is the other important early edition.
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
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Summoner'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 Summoner's
Tale include:
6. Online Books & Articles
A "special web cluster" from Exemplaria 16.2 (2004),
edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen:
Richard Neuse reads Chaucer through the lens of the great Italian poet
Dante in Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in the Canterbury
Tales (Berkeley: U of California P, 1991). It is available online at
<http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1f59n7bw/>
and includes:
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
Sample
audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Summoner's
Tale, recorded at the 7th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society,
University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul
Thomas, Brigham Young).
12. Potpourri
13. The
Next Step
The Electronic Canterbury
Tales
Scholar's Dozen
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The Online Chaucer Bibliography (Mark E. Allen, UT
San Antonio) is from Studies in the Age of Chaucer and the New
Chaucer Society. Another excellent project. Searchable by keyword and
other Boolean terms.
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The Chaucer Review: An Indexed
Bibliography, vols. 1-30 (Peter Beidler, Lehigh U. & Martha
Kalnin, Baylor
U). Originally published as the April 1997 issue
of Chaucer Review and now put into html, this website provides a
searchable list of all of the nearly 800 articles that have appeared in
Chaucer Review,
and, more important, a subject index to all of those articles.
Excellent, and an invaluable resource.
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The Essential Chaucer (Mark E. Allen, UT San
Antonio and John H. Fisher, UTennessee). This selective, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies from
1900-1984 is divided into almost 90 topics, including themes, techniques, and individual
works by Chaucer. An invaluable starting point. See
the Table
of Contents
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The best single site devoted to the Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales, The Harvard Chaucer Page, is a
tutorial in itself, brought to the WWW by Larry D. Benson, gen. ed. of The Riverside
Chaucer. Check the Index for
easy access to the wealth of primary and secondary material there.
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Paul
Halsall's consummate Internet Medieval
Sourcebook (Fordham U) offers a wealth of primary historical and cultural texts
(from older print sources) and
commentary on its numerous sub-pages. Comprehensive, and unsurpassed for medieval studies.
See, for example, The
'Calamitous' Fourteenth Century.
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TEAMS Middle English Text
Series (Russell Peck, URochester) houses a number of lesser known and
hard to find medieval texts in helpful student editions. A generous and fascinating
selection not to be missed! Each selection includes a scholarly introduction
and full notes.
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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).
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The Middle English Collection of
the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
includes searchable editions of a number of important ME texts (generally from older
editions without the critical apparatus), including:
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The
Middle English Dictionary is online at the UMichigan site. You have
to access the individual password month by month.
Note: The MED seems now to be temporarily offline, or perhaps
inaccessible for the moment to individual users.
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A real boon for scholars, 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.
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From Barbara Bordalejo (Canterbury Tales Project - DeMontfort U), a fully
searchable online edition of Caxton's two printed editions of the
Canterbury Tales: Caxton's
Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies.
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The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval
Studies (Kathryn Talarico, gen. ed.) "is an academic site, written and
maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow
instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by
at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of
accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies."
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For a
peer-reviewed, academically sound evaluation of online Chaucer resources, see the links
and annotations at the Chaucer Metapage
project (gen. eds. Joe Wittig, UNC & Edwin Duncan, Towson State U).
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
Writing Resources (from Bartleby.com)
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