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Canterbury Tales Home 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
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Complete Online Versions of the
Canterbury Tales
The
Complete Tales in Middle English at UVa (1510 kb)
Search
the UVa Middle English Text Archive
Sinan Kökbugur's hypertext, helpfully glossed Middle English edition at the Librarius Homepage
The Electronic Library Foundation's edition of the Canterbury Tales is
available in a variety of formats
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of the Canterbury Tales
Top 15
Medieval & Chaucer-Related Sites
The Aberdeen On-line
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Argos:
Limited Area Search of the Ancient & Medieval Internet
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Exploring Ancient
World Cultures
Geoffrey Chaucer: Annotated Guide to
Online Resources
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The Harvard Chaucer Page
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Medieval Sourcebook
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and Classical Library
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TEAMS
Middle English Text Series
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The
Prioress's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Words
of the Host to the Prioress, the Prioress's
Prologue, and the Prioress's
Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center.
Read the
Prioress's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment
VII - Group B2.
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
Music figures prominently in the plot of the Physician's Tale. See Gary
Rich's sublime Ars
Subtilior. Music of the late Medieval period and the generous list of
links there.
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
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. Some of the selections related to the Prioress's Tale
include:
- Middle English Marian Lyrics (ed. Karen
Saupe),
Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.
- The Book of Margery Kempe (ed.
Lynn Staley), Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval
Institute Publications, 1996.
"All
TEAMS texts are under copyright, whether in hard copy or in electronic
form. The on-line texts provided here are meant for individual use only.
To download and make multiple copies for course use, you must have
permission from the managing editor of Medieval
Institute Publications."
Read an
associated tale from the Life of William of
Norwich (12th century), whose death was also blamed on the "blood libel"
legend--the anti-Semitic belief that Jews kidnapped and killed Christian children for
illicit purposes.
D. L.
Ashliman provides a number of anti-Semitic folktales from around Europe, medieval and
modern, on his Anti-Semitic Legends.
A number of these are translated from 19th century German sources. You might also like to
see the folktales of the Singing Bones,
wherein the body parts of murder victims cry out or sing for justice.
Harvard Classics (vol. 40), English
Poetry I, From Chaucer to Gray reproduces a number of traditional (and
some) medieval ballads, including Hugh
of Lincoln
The
Oxford Book of Ballads, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (1910) includes
dozens of traditional (and some medieval) ballads, including some that
bear upon themes in the Prioress's Tale:
5. Online Notes & Commentary
Discussion and links concerning the Prioress'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
Prioress's Tale include:
See a
number of related Tales
of the Virgin from the 12th and 13th Century (Paul Halsall, IMSB).
Read articles on figures related to the Prioress's Tale from the 1913 ed.
of the Catholic Encyclopedia:
- Holy Innocents / Childermass
- Hugh of Lincoln
- William of Norwich
6. Online Books & Articles
A number of titles from the U of
California Press's E-Scholarship initiative deal with anti-Semitism
and the legacy of Christian - Jewish (and Muslim) relations in the
medieval and early modern period, especially in Spain. See the
following:
- Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. Pseudo-Hecataeus
on the Jews: Legitmizing the Jewish Diaspora. (Berkeley: U of
California P, 1997).
- Burns, Robert I., S. J. Jews
in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain,
1250–1350. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1996).
- Chazan, Robert. Daggers of
Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response. (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1991).
- Chazan, Robert. European Jewry and
the First Crusade. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1987).
- Chazan, Robert. God, Humanity, and
History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives. (Berkeley: U of
California P, 2000).
- Chazan, Robert. Medieval Stereotypes
and Modern Antisemitism. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1997).
- Cohen, Jeremy. Living Letters of the
Law: Ideas of Jews in Medieval Christianity. (Berkeley: U of
California P, 1999).
- Meyerson, Mark D. The Muslims
of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel. (Berkeley: U
of California P, 1991).
The articles from Cultural
Frictions: Medieval Cultural Studies in Post-Modern Contexts Conference Proceedings
(27-28 October 1995) are online. Though not about the Prioress's Tale, the following
article deals with some of the same issues of anti-Semitism and violence:
Essays in Medieval Studies
features full-text articles from the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association,
online version edited by Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola - Chicago), including:
7. Student Projects & Essays
Anniina Jokkinen's strikingly beautiful and highly useful Luminarium includes a substantial list of
professional and student essays on a number of medieval authors, and individual pages on,
Chaucer, the Gawain Poet, Langland, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich.
Jokkinen also compiles a number of resources by Canterbury Tale: The
Prioress's Tale
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
The Massacre of the Innocents (from Matthew 2) is a subtext of the
Prioress's Tale, and images of the Massacre (or Slaughter) of the
Innocents are pervasive in medieval culture. See the following:
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
Sample
audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Prioress's
Tale, recorded at Campion College, University of Regina, 1989, and 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
New rendition of Chaucer tale stirs debate over
anti-Semitism (Jewish Bulletin of Northern California) reports the
debate over staging the Prioress's Tale in San Rafael, California, in
1997.
13. The
Next Step
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