Approaches to Learning Chaucer Chaucer: Internet Resources

Approaches to Learning for Secondary English

Instructor:. Robbie W. Strickland, Ed.D.

Professor, Secondary Education

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Chaucer Bookmarks

This page provides access to Chaucer resources on the web. Many of the pages in the research section provide overviews of Chaucer's works.
E-texts of Chaucer's Works in original Middle English.
A complete public domain e-text of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Copyrights of the e-texts presented via this site are held by the University of California Regents. Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries.
The Legend of Good Women
Book of the Duchess
A project page developed by Mathew Markland, including e-texts of the short poems in the original Middle English with some notes and critical overviews
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY: TRUTH
From the Univeristy of Toronto Library, HTML versions of this poem, the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Parliment of Fowles. Permission for educational use is granted.
Gentilesse
Merciles Beaute: A Triple Roundel Geoffrey Chaucer
Lak of Stedfastnesse: Balade Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer Against Women Unconstant
A Treatise on The Astrolabe
Via the Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose, University of Michigan
The Project Gutenberg Etext of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Hypertext Edition
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Strickland's Chaucer Texts
The Compleynte unto Pite
The Compleint of Chaucer to his Empty Purse
A Balade of Compleynt
Proverbs
E-text of Chaucer's Works [Modern Translations]
Medieval Sourcebook: Chaucer, d. 1400: Canterbury Tales: Prologue [Parallel Texts]
Medieval Sourcebook: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: Prologue to Wife of Bath's Tale [Parallel Texts]
Electric Renaissance
Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Boise State Univeristy
Course materials developed by Dr. Knox for an online course including modern translations of many of the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Knox has granted that "others can use the information here for their own educational purposes, either personally or in a classroom."
TROILUS AND CRISEYDE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions (1992)
Edited by John M. Bowers
The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn:Introduction (TEAMS, 1992)
The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn: Part 1(TEAMS, 1992)
The Canterbury Interlude and the Merchant's Tale of Beryn: Part 2 (TEAMS, 1992)
The Cook's Tale: Introduction (TEAMS, 1992)
The Cook's Tale: Text (TEAMS, 1992)
Spurious [Canterbury Tales] Links: Introduction
Spurious [Canterbury Tales] Links: Text
Research
Geoffrey Chaucer's Homepage
Covers the first thirty years of the journal. The Chaucer Review is essential reading for Chaucerians at all levels of study. More than any other resource, it provides a record of most of the significant trends in medieval and Chaucer scholarship for the past three decades. The purpose of this special issue of the journal is to provide scholars with a compiled list of all of the nearly 800 articles that have appeared, and, more important, a subject index to all of those articles.
This is the searchable, annotated bibliography of works on Chaucer is provided via the Library Catalog of the Univerisity of Texas at San Antonio.
From the University of Alberta's ENGL 324: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, a bibliography of Chaucer's historical, social, and philosophical background.
Librarius website entry for Chaucer, with supporting historical information.
Chaucer's Plowman (TEAMS (1992)
This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. (Others of course are welcome to use it.) It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page. Permission is granted to use this material for non-commercial purposes. Please use proper attribution.
A Glossarial Database of Middle English
The searchable glossorial database created by Larry Benson, editor of The Riverside Chaucer, may be used to locate every occurrence of any single word in Chaucer's work. This tool is very useful for topical research or planning thematic routes.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Sponsored by Georgetown University
The Douay-Rheims Bible Project is a presentation of the complete Catholic e-text version of the Holy Bible, based upon the Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible. This bible is an English translation of the latin Vulgate Bible, and was widely used by English speaking Catholics until the mid-20th Century. For the modern reader it is probably the closest approximation to the bible of Chaucer's time.
Provides links to many literary and historical resources for The Canterbury Tales.
The Black Death
23 concise pages on the origins, spread, and effects of the plague on western Europe, by Dr. E. L. Knox at his History of Western Civilization course.
Discovery Online - The Black Death
Entertaining and gruesome look at the infamous 14th-century plague by Lori Anne Wark, enlivened by vivid graphics and audio clips (transcripts provided for those without RealAudio).
The Black Plague
This project by George Ouwendijk and Bill Rednour at CUNY includes contemporary accounts of the plague and maps detailing its progress.
The Pestilence Tyme
Nine brief but descriptive chapters by James L. Matterer on the Black Death in Europe. Images and a bibliography are provided.
Medicine in Chaucer's Time
Transcript from the Ockham's Razor radio broadcast of Dr. Henry Smith's look at the medieval approach to medicine.
Medieval Medicine and Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale
Cartographic Images,
Links to ancient, medieval and renaissance maps with associated documentation, J Siebold
Geoffrey Chaucer, the great English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales, used food as a literary device to enrich the personalities of his characters. A Chaucerian Cookery examines the references to food and Medieval dishes in all of Chaucer's writings, studies the dietary habits of his characters, and gives a complete list of all foods Chaucer refers to. Included is A Chaucerian Feast, which presents an authentic Medieval feast based on the writings of Chaucer and 14 corresponding 14th c. recipes, as well as detailing the presentation and courses of a standard Medieval feast.
Provides texts of the Canterbury tales as well as related notes, outlines, essays, and audio clips.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Biography
Audio
Middle English Pronunciation Guide, Teresa P. Reed, Jacksonville State University
Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Hypertext Edition
Contains links to audio files of readings of more than a dozen passages. Click on the small down arrows in the left margin to access the audio recordings.
Nun's Priest's Tale 3157-66: An Oral Interpretation by Rebecca Peabody
Text and commentary at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~syager/nptaloud.html
Excerpts from Brigham Young University's collection of audio recordings of Chaucer's works. This site also contains excerpts from The Book of the Duchess and The Parlement of Foules.
Audio samples from The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, Portrait of the Miller (2.07MB) Read by Alfred David, Indiana University. The Wife of Bath's Prologue (2.47MB) Read by Marie Borroff, Yale University.
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue- Geoffrey Chaucer by Jean Mae Smith
(audio interpretation: 680k aiff file) (audio interpretation: 221k au file)
Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, lines 1-18 wav file (Tom Hanks, Baylor University)
Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue, lines 1-18 wav file - J. B. Bessinger
Practice Reading Middle English
From T.J. Ferrel's Author Study: GEOFFREY CHAUCER web page.
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
The Eagle's summation to Geffrey from the House of Fame 843-74, [761 K]
Troilus, Book V 1828-48, [761 K]
Canterbury Tales: General Prologue: Wife of Bath [1176 K]
Knight's Tale, I 2604-20, [644 K]
Clerk's Tale, IV 1177-83, [390 K]
The Miller's Tale in RealAudio - Alfred David
The Pardoner's Tale in RealAudio - Alfred David
Prologue to the Tale of Sir Thopas
The Second Fyt of Thopas
Prologue to the Tale of Melibee
The Canterbury Tales, GP first 42 lines in 3 wav files by Jane Zatta
The Pardoner's Tale - RealAudio by Alfred David/Norton
Medieval Music
via the Chaucer Studio
14th Century Music

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Texts
Directory of /WWW/obi
ftp://ftp.std.com/WWW/obi/Geoffrey.Chaucer/
Books On-line: Search Results
University of Michigan Making of America
Hypertexts @ The University of Virginia
Hypertexts @ The University of Virginia
Primary Source Media
Primary Source Media
Yahoo! Arts:Humanities:Literature:Poetry:Poets:Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400)
Chaucer resources
Dr. Bonnie Duncan, English and Women's Studies Millersville University, has assembled a nice collection of maps and images from Chaucer texts
Magic of the Middle Ages: The Romaunt of the Roses