English 152A: Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales
The Clerk of Oxenford from the Ellesmere manuscript
Here are some links to other sites of interest for the
study of Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales:
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The Harvard University Chaucer
page : simply the richest and most compendious web source for Chaucer;
it includes links to the Canterbury
Tales with pages devoted to each tale, including good introductions,
summaries, images, links to sources, etc.; to short a biography
of Chaucer's life (with links to topics like courtly love, meals and manners,
women in Chaucer, history, tournaments and court spectacles); to literary
topics , including principle genres and subgenres; to Chaucer's language
and the great
vowel shift of the fifteenth century, and much more.
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Librarius presents The
Canterbury Tales: includes the
text of each of the Canterbury Tales, with useful glossary.
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Chaucertext: An on-line
archive for electronic Chaucer Scholarship.
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Chaucer Metapage:
initiated at the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies by a group
of medievalists interested in promoting Chaucer studies on the Web.
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New Chaucer Society Home Page.
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The Canterbury
Tales Project at Sheffield University (UK)
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Michael Hanley's Chaucer
page at Washington State University; includes a bibliography
to
1993.
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Edwin Duncan's page
on Chaucer at Towson University.
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Susan Yager's page at
Iowa State.
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Alex Baragona's
Chaucer page at VMI.
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Jane Zatta's Chaucer page (with
link to audio file of the General Prologue).
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The Luminarium
Chaucer page, a labor of love by an independent scholar, with a link to
images from the Ellesmere ms.
Chaucernet, an on-line discussion group of Chaucer and medieval
literature:
Other sites on medieval literature:
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The Labyrinth,
a compendious project on medieval literature at Georgetown University.
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Misconceptions
about the Middle Ages: an on-line collection of useful essays that
address popular misunderstandings about the medieval period.
And of course the Voice
of the Shuttle : UCSB's own extraordinary web source for humanities
research, created by Professor Alan Liu
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Last revised 13 January, 2000