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Daniel T. Kline, Dept. of English, University of Alaska Anchorage

"But now to yow, ye loveres that ben here, / Was Troilus nought in a kankedort, . . . "?
Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1751-52

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I have not updated this page in several years but will leave it online for reference. Please go to the Electronic Canterbury Tales for a comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of online sources related to Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales.
1. E-Texts of the Canterbury Tales	8. Medieval Studies Websites and Metapages
2. Chaucer Bibliographies	9. Medieval Writers' Websites
3. Chaucer & Canterbury Tales Pages	10. Virtual Canterbury and Medieval England
4. E-Tools for Chaucer & Canterbury Tales	11. Manuscripts, Images, and Illumination
5. Online Journals and Publications	12. Evaluating WWW Sites and Sources
6. Chaucernet Electronic Discussion Group	13. Documenting Electronic Sources
7. The Medieval Review (book reviews)	14. Documentation Rules of Thumb

1. E-Texts of the Canterbury Tales

Although most high school and beginning undergraduates will read Chaucer in translation, Chaucer is best read in the Middle English. The Riverside Chaucer, the current academic standard, is available online, but access is restricted. The online texts at the UVA text archive are based on Skeat's 1898 edition

The Entire Text in Middle English (1320 KB) and a Table of Contents by Individual Tale, from the University of Virginia E-Text Archive.

In Modern English (Table of Contents Gopher by tale) at the University of Vermont.

A selection of tales in Modern English by
Skip Knox of Boise State University.

The Canterbury Tales in Middle English at the Univ. of Michigan.

Luminarium, Anniina Jokinen's award winning, exemplary site on medieval, renaissance, and 17th century literature, includes essays on Chaucer and the CT, Gawain, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and medieval drama.

Other Chaucer E-Texts in Middle English

Troilus and Criseyde (full text) or Table of Contents (UVA e-text).

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy: in Modern English and in Latin (James O'Donnell).

The Book of the Duchess from the Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL).

Book of the Duchess in Hypertext (McGillivray).

The Legend of Good Women from OMACL.

The House of Fame from OMACL.

The Parliament of Fowls from OMACL.

Treatise on the Astrolabe from OMACL.

Middle English and Medieval E-Text Collections

The following web sites house a wide variety of Middle English and medieval texts, including Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, medieval drama, and other literary and cultural texts.

Middle English Collection at UVA.

Search the UVA Middle English Text Archive.

Corpus of ME Prose and Verse at the Univ. of Michigan.

Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL), UC Berkeley.

2. Chaucer Bibliographies

The Online Chaucer Bibliography, compiled by Mark E. Allen at UT San Antonio, is located at <telnet://utsaibm.utsa.edu/>. To access this bibliography, your web browser must be configured for a telnet application. After you have made the telnet connection, follow these instructions, and type slowly:

Instructions

1. Type "library"

2. Then choose "local"

3. Then choose "chau"

4. Search the bibliography by keyword.

5. When you have finished, type "stop"

Chaucer Review Bibliography: 30 years of articles annotated and indexed, by Peter Beidler (Lehigh) and Martha Kalnin (Baylor). Excellent, and an invaluable resource..

3. College and University Web Sites Devoted
to Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

These WWW sites, designed by professional medievalists and Chaucer specialists for their college and university courses, provide many important resources for the study of Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales.

Alan Baragona's Chaucer Page at Virginia Military Institute	Michael Hanley's Canterbury Tales Page at Washington State
Larry D. Benson's Canterbury Tales Page at Harvard	Bonnie Wheeler's Canterbury Tales Page at Southern Methodist
Edwin Duncan's Chaucer Page at Towson State	Jane Zatta's Chaucer Page at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
Susan Hagen's Canterbury Tales Page at Birmingham Southern	Dan Mosser's WWW Medieval Resources Page at Virginia Tech
Susan Yager's Chaucer Page at Iowa State University	Linda Voigts', Engelond: Resources for 14th-Century English Studies, University of Missouri Kansas City
Chaucer: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources, by David Wilson-Okamura

4. E-Tools for Studying Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English is a searchable technical database prepared by Larry D. Benson of Harvard University.	The Canterbury Tales Project, headed by Sheffield University, promises advanced analysis and digitization of Chaucer manuscripts.
Luminarium, Anniina Jokinen's award winning, exemplary site on medieval, renaissance, and 17th century literature, includes essays on Chaucer and the CT.	Edwin Duncan's A Basic Chaucer Glossary covers several hundred of the most commonly occurring ME words and their modern translations (Towson State).
Alan Baragona's Semi-Systematic, Serendipitous Chaucer Bibliography, lists a number of important studies (Virginia Military Institute).	Elizabeth Rehfield's handy online guide to Chaucer's Pronunciation, Grammar, and Vocabulary is in self-tutorial form (Harvard University).
Michael Hanley offers a selective Chaucer Bibliography (Washington State University).	Jane Zatta's Some Important Events in the Fourteenth Century, complete with beautiful images from medieval manuscripts, provides important background (SIU-Edwardsville).

5. Journals and Online Publications
The journals listed below are either devoted to Chaucerian or medieval topics or have a history of publishing articles concerned with the study of Chaucer and the Middle Ages.
Arthuriana, journal of the International Arthurian Society - North American Branch, edited by Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist University).	Chaucer Yearbook: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies, edited by Michael N. Salda (Univ. of Southern Mississippi) and Jean E. Jost (Bradley University).
Comparative Drama, a journal substantially devoted to medieval, and some Chaucerian, topics, edited by Clifford Davidson (Western Michigan University) and John H. Stroupe.	Essays in Medieval Studies, full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association, edited by Allen J. Frantzen.
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, edited by R.A. Shoaf (University of Florida).	Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, from the University of Manitoba, edited by Evelyn J. Hinz.
Papers on Language & Literature Home Page, a journal published at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville.	representations online, a theoretically oriented journal from UC Berkeley.
�stel, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (some articles online), by James McNelis

6. Chaucernet Electronic Discussion Group

Chaucernet is an electronic discussion group (listserv) sponsored by the New Chaucer Society and composed primarily of professional academics (college and university professors). All others interested in the serious study of Chaucer are welcome to join, but novices both to Chaucer studies and to electronic discussion groups are advised to consult Laura Hodges' Netiquette for Chaucernet Subscribers before joining the list and posting queries.
How to Subscribe to Chaucernet	Common Chaucernet Listserv Commands
It must be stressed that Chaucernet is not a place to have one's basic and elementary questions about Chaucer answered. The Chaucernet is an electronic forum for the serious and considered discussion of the study, research, and teaching of Chaucer and his work

7. The Medieval Review

The Medieval Review from Western Michigan University (formerly the Bryn-Mawr Medieval Review or BMMR) is an online book review listserv primarily composed of professional academic researchers who specialize in the study of the Middle Ages. The Medieval Review issues professional reviews of recently issued books on different aspects of the Middle Ages.
Searchable Gopher Index of TMR/BMMR	Search results for "Chaucer" from BMMR

8. Medieval Studies Websites and Literary Metapages

The following websites are termed "metapages" because they compile a number of links to other sites, which in turn will take you to a variety of other Internet resources. These are good places to continue your research, but you must evaluate each website and the material you find critically.
Georgetown's Labyrinth is the starting point for Internet research in medieval studies. It features a comprehensive and searchable database covering England and Europe.	Alan Liu's excellent Voice of the Shuttle at UCSB is perhaps the most extensive humanities metapage, with an comprehensive Anglo-Saxon and Medieval page. Excellent.
Annotated Webliography of Literary Resources at Georgia Southern is devoted to WWW sources.	Jack Lynch's On-Line Literary Resources is another fine literary metapage (UPenn), with an extensive medieval page.
Paul Halsall's comprehensive Medieval Sourcebook gives students access to a huge range of primary sources from across Europe and Byzantium from the Patristic Age to the Reformation. Highly recommended.	ORB--Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies at Rhodes College provides a number of quality links and sources, including the ORB Encyclopedia's peer-reviewed essays.
The Iter Bibliography, at the University of Toronto, is a wide ranging bibliography covering all aspects of European culture from 1300-1700.	University of Kansas Medieval Studies Bibliographies, though most date from 1993 or so, are a good starting point for research on a variety of subjects.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library contains a number of early Christian and medieval texts.	The Internet Classics Archive is a searchable collection of 400 classical Greek and Roman texts in English translation.

9. Medieval Writers' Websites

The following websites are devoted to other medieval writers, some of whom were Chaucer's contemporaries.

Otfried Lieberknecht's Homepage for Dante Studies is a useful and impressive collection of links from all over the world.	Derrick Pitard's Lollard Society Homepage is devoted to this important late-medieval religious movement initiated by John Wyclif.
The Decameron Web covers not only Boccaccio, but the cultural context of 14th century Italy.	A contemporary of Chaucer, John Gower's Confessio Amantis is available at OMACL.
The Canon of John Lydgate Page, by Stephen R. Reimer, Univ. of Alberta, highlights this 15th century author who wrote a continuation of the Canterbury Tales ("The Siege of Thebes"). Also see Lydgate's The Lives of Ss. Edmund and Fremund in hypertext.	TEAMS Middle English Texts, sponsored by Western Michigan University, provides an absolutely essential collection of newly edited online medieval texts, like the literature of King Arthur and Robin Hood, with extensive commentary and bibliography
The Camelot Project at the Univ. of Rochester is an impressive online source for the Arthurian legends.	The Robin Hood Project also at the Univ. of Rochester is another impressive online source, this time for the Robin Hood legends.

10. Virtual Canterbury and Medieval England

Peter Collinson's excellent Tour of Canterbury and Canterbury Tour - Navigation features a clickable map of Canterbury, containing over 300 linked images.	Ignore the narrative, but click on the very nice interior photos of Canterbury Cathedral: view toward the altar, the cathedral ceiling, and stained glass window.
Brittania Internet Magazine, the award-winning online gateway to the British Isles, links to pages on Canterbury, a virtual tour of Durham Cathedral, London (incl. a virtual tour of the Tower of London), Southwark (including the Tower Bridge and the reconstructed Globe Theater).
The Castles of Wales, by Jeff Thomas, is an image-rich survey of several medieval Welsh castles.	From Gatehouse to Cathedral: A Photographic Pilgrimage to Chaucerian Landmarks, Text and Photography By Joshua Merrill

11. Medieval Manuscripts, Images, and Illumination

Pictorial images from medieval sources can reveal a great deal about the cultures and people that produced them--how they dressed, what they ate, where they lived and worked, and what they valued.

Huntington Library, which houses the famous Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (c. 1410), is online.
See the Ellesmere Wife of Bath.

DScriptorium Home Page, by Jesse Hurlbut of Brigham Young, is a fine website of beautiful medieval images from across Europe.	Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Homepage houses a number of medieval images and a fine gift shop.
The Aberdeen On-line Bestiary is an exemplary site, featuring fanciful illuminated animals.	Hypertext Book of Hours, a medieval service book, is featured at this Univ. of Alberta website.
Images from The Age of King Charles V at the Biblioth�que Nationale de France.	Stanford University has made available an online Gallery of Medieval Manuscripts.
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture is an excellent website by the Library of Congress.	Part of the Louvre, the Web Museum houses a handsome collection of images from Les tr�s riches heures du Duc de Berry