Geoffrey Chaucer Website: Certainly the best Chaucer site on the web. Includes glossed Middle English texts,
interlinear translations of the Canterbury Tales, background material, translations of other relevant works, scholarly articles and more. (Harvard U.)
Chaucer Metapage: A portal site for Chaucer resources on the web,
with very well selected links. It "was initiated at the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies by a group
of medievalists interested in promoting Chaucer studies on the WWW." It includes links to academic Chaucer
pages, online texts, bibliographies, background material,
etc.
geoffreychaucer.org: A very well-designed portal site for Chaucer
resources. It includes links to sites under the following sub-headings: background, bibliography, biography,
commentary, images, language, links, outlines (one dead link as of 8/11/02), reception (only one link, but
an interesting one, as of 8/11/02), sources, teaching and texts. The resources are well selected and include useful
summaries for each link. The site is searchable. (It also includes links to Amazon.com for purchasing books on
Chaucer.)
The Electronic
Canterbury Tales: Certainly the most extensive site for resources on
Chaucer, with a wealth of resources keyed to particular
tales. It is well organized, with original material as well as links to outside
resources, although its sheer size can make it a little intimidating. It includes the
"Chaucer
Pedagogy Page," which offers additional resources and an extensive page of "assignment ideas," including material which is appropriate for college-level and for K-12 classes.
(U. of Alaska/Anchorage)
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales: Jane Zatta's richly detailed page for the study of the Canterbury Tales.
In addition to a judicious selection of links to background material, it includes commentary on 14 of the Canterbury Tales, along with summaries of and excepts from sources and analogues. It also includes a very useful summary of "Some Important Events in the Fourteenth Century," a generous selection of images, and sound files (in .wav format) for the first 42 lines of the General Prologue.
Edwin Duncan's Chaucer
Page: The course page for Edwin Duncan's Chaucer class at Towson University. It includes a very well selected collection of web resources, as well as valuable original material. His
Electronic Edition
of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales is especially well-designed and useful, offering pop-up glosses and explanatory notes, links to additional material, easily accessible sound files (in Real Audio format), a parallel-text translation into modern English, etc.
(Towson U.)
Baragona'a Chaucer Page:
The course page for Alan Baragona's Chaucer course. It contains a number of well selected links, as well as a link to the course syllabus. The course syllabus may be especially useful, with detailed assignments and links to audio files of the Canterbury Tales and other works (also available through the Chaucer Meta-Page).
(VMI)
Chaucer
Scriptorium: This site was originally the web page for one of Michael Hanly's graduate courses, but has become a more general resource page for students. In addition to well selected links to other resources on the web, it includes useful original material: a short, helpful "Historical Outline of the 14th Century"; brief background material on allegory, the theory of humors, etc.; some original (although dated) bibliographies by Prof. Hanly and his students.
(Washington State U.)
Luminarium:
Geoffrey Chaucer: Useful and elegantly designed site for Chaucer
resources. Take a look at the main Luminarium site as well, for
Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century resources.
Canterbury Tales: A searchable html version of the Canterbury Tales from the Robinson edition. Individual Fragments and Tales may be accessed through a table of contents. (U. of Michigan)
Canterbury Tales: Html version of the Canterbury Tales from the Robinson edition. Individual Fragments and Tales may be accessed through a table of contents. (U. of Virginia)
[There seems to be a problem with this link; if it does not work for you, try
accessing the Canterbury Tales through the Middle
English Collection page--just scroll down the alphabet to
"Chaucer."]
Book of the Duchess: E-text version of Skeat's edition of the
Book of the Duchess. (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
Legend of Good Women: E-text version of Skeat's edition of the Legend of Good Women. Individual parts may be accessed through a table of contents. (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
Parliament of Fowles: E-text version of Skeat's edition of the Parliament of Fowles. (Online Medieval and Classical Library)
Troilus and Criseyde: A searchable html version of Troilus and Criseyde from the Robinson edition. Individual
stanza groups may be accessed through a table of contents. (U. of Michigan)
The Minor Poems of
Geoffrey Chaucer: A selection of Chaucer's shorter poems, prepared
from the Robinson editions by students in the English Department at Edgewood College,
with hypertext glosses, bibliographies, and short introductions. To date, eight of the poems are
available. (Edgewood College)
The
Classic Text: Chaucer: An intriguing overview of the
manuscript and printing history of Chaucer's works, with good illustrations
from the Ellesmere manuscript, the Kelmscott Chaucer, etc. (U. of
Wisconsin/Milwaukee)
Basic Chaucer Glossary: Edwin Duncan's concise lexicon for Chaucer's language. Useful for quickly finding particular words. (Towson U.)
The
Chaucer MetaPage Audio Files: Alan Baragona's extensive collection
of audio files for the Canterbury Tales (excerpts from The General
Prologue and seven of the Tales), as well as for several other works. (VMI)
The General Prologue:
An Electronic Edition: Edwin Duncan's elegantly designed site
includes sound files for the whole of the General Prologue (requires
RealPlayer), as well as glosses, notes, etc. (Towson U.)
Luminarium: Audio excerpts from the Canterbury Tales:
Additional links to audio clips of readings from the General Prologue, the Wife of Bath's Prologue, etc. Audio files are in a number of different formats.
History of the English
Language: A portal site for resources on the history of English. It
includes links to the HEL-L discussion list and archives, as well as to
primary texts, course syllabi, bibliographic resources, conference
information, etc. (Virginia Tech)
Essential Chaucer: Very useful annotated bibliography by Mark Allen and John Fisher. Covers selected resources from 1900 to 1984 (with one or two entries from as late as 1987). (U. of Texas/SA)
Chaucer
Bibliography Online: The New Chaucer Society annotated bibliography, which is published annually in Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Online version covers Chaucer scholarship since 1975. Very thorough and extremely useful. (U. of Texas/SA)
The Medieval Review:
Extensive archive of reviews of scholarly books on all aspects of medieval
studies, including Chaucer. The Review began publication in
1993. Archives are fully searchable. (Bryn Mawr C.)
Reviews of Recent Books about Chaucer:
Links to book reviews in The Medieval Review, from 1996-99. Useful as a
short-cut to finding reviews, although it has not been updated since 2000. Links provided by Edwin Duncan.
(Towson U.) [There appears to be a problem with this resource; the contents
page is still accessible, but the links to actual reviews are down.]
Engelond: From Gatehouse to Cathedral: "A Photographic Pilgrimage to Chaucerian Landmarks." Not a guided tour of the pilgrimage route to Becket's shrine, but provides some interesting photographs and commentary.
See also the full Engelond
site for additional background material. (U. of Missouri/KC)
Chaucernet: Online discussion group (listserve) for Chaucer studies.
Archives are downloadable via listserve command.
This page developed and maintained by James
Hunter,
Dept. of English, Edgewood College, Madison, WI.
Questions, comments or suggestions: hunter@edgewood.edu Last updated: 02/15/06
