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Note: I'll attempt to keep track of the major revisions & additions here on this page so that users don't necessarily have to hunt through the individual pages for new material.  Any new material will added at the end of the appropriate heading, will be indicated on each page with a symbol,  and will remain until the next major revision.

The Electronic Canterbury Tales: See the new page devoted to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

November 2005: Added "Geoffrey Chaucer" to the titles and headings of Electronic Canterbury Tales pages to increase search engine visibility (hopefully). Changed main logo image.

October 2005: Major revision, as part of a server migration. Elimination of broken links. Deep linking to a number of new resources, including TEAMS Middle English Text Series. 

"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."

November 2003: A light revision and update, including:

The British Library has generously made available a stunning online resource, Treasures in Full: Caxton's Chaucer. You can examine the two Caxton editions of The Canterbury Tales (1476 and 1483) individually or compare them tale by tale. Transcriptions of these images can then be examined folio by folio in Barbara Bordalejo's online edition (Canterbury Tales Project, De Montfort University). See also at this site:

• Caxton's Life
• Caxton's Texts
• Caxton in the British Library
• Caxton's England
• Caxton's Technologies

Index to the Rolls Series (99 volumes), with annotations (Steven H. Silver).  The Rolls Series is a vital collection of primary documents from medieval England, including chronicles, lives of kings and saints, legal records, and texts from other medieval institutions.

   Medieval Misconceptions (Stephen J. Harris, UMass and Bryon Grigsby, Centenary College) offers succinct essays on several topics, addressing widely misunderstood aspects of medieval life and culture::

• The Crusades (Jessalynn Bird)
• The Myth of the Mounted Knight (James Patterson)
• Medieval Medicine (Bryon L. Grigsby)
• Medieval Drama: Myths of Evolution, Pageant Wagons, and (lack of) Entertainment Value (Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby)
• Medieval Children (Sophie Oosterwijk)
• An Austere Age without Laughter (Michael George)
• Was the Medieval Church Corrupt? (Frans van Liere)
• The Round World (Julia Bolton Holloway)

April 2003: A few new links throughout the ECT, including:

• See also Harold L. Osher's web exhibit Jerusalem 3000: Three Millenia of History (U of Southern Maine, Osher Map Library) for a number of medieval and early-modern images of the holy city.
• Jessica A. Browner's article, though a little after Chaucer's period, catches some of the flavor of Southwerk, the Tabard, and the pilgrimage party in  "Wrong Side of the River: London's Disreputable South Bank in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Essays in History 36 (1994): 34-72.
• The Wife of Bath made three pilgrimages to Jerusalem, quite an achievement for the time. The University of Southern Colorado, Department of History has put together a very fine Traveling to Jerusalem website, detailing pilgrim accounts from the 3rd century to the present day.  See, for example, the accounts by 
  • Anonymous Pilgrim of Bordeaux (333)
  • Egeria (381-384) Roman Spain
  • Arculf (680)
  • Bernard the Wise (c. 870) France
  • Nasir-i-Khusraw (1046-1052) Balkh
  • Daniel (1106-1107) Russia
  • Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173) Spain
  • Theoderich (1172) Germany
  • Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) Venice
  • Bar Sauma (c. 1278-1313) China
  • Anonymous Guidbook to Palestine (c. 1350)
  • Margery Kempe (1413-1415) England
  • John Poloner (1422) Germany?
  • Pero Tafur (1435-39) Spain
  • Felix Fabri (1480 & 1483-84) Germany
  • Pietro Casola (1494) Milan

December 2002: Deep linking to Chaucer-related texts in the U of California Press E-Scholarship Editions, including: 

• Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley: U of California P, 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2s2004t2/ 

  Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 —  Introduction
  • 2 —  The Wife of Bath and the Mark of Adam
  • 3 —  The Death of the Duchess
  • 4 —  "We Wrechched Wymmen Konne Noon Art":  Dido and Geffrey in the House of Fame
  • 5 —  Female Indecision and Indifference in the Parliament of Fowls
  • 6 —  Troilus and Criseyde:  "Beth War of Men, and Herkneth What I Seye!"
  • 7 —  The Powers of Silence:  The Case of the Clerk's Griselda
  • 8 —  "Women-as-the-Same" in the A-Fragment
  • 9 —  The Merchant's Tale, or Another Poor Worm
  • 10 —  Making Ernest of Game:  The Franklin's Tale and Some Partial Conclusions
    

• Neuse, Richard. Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: U of California P, 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/ 13030/ft1f59n7bw/ 

  Contents

  • Preface
  • 1—  Introduction
  • 2—  The Question of Genre:  The Canterbury Tales as Dantean Epic
  • 3—  Allegory:  The Canterbury Tales and Dantean Allegory  (Geryon and the Nun's Priest's Tale)
  • 4—  Epic Theater:  The Comedy and The Canterbury Tales  (The Knight and the Miller)
  • 5—  Chaucerian Intertextuality:  The Monk's Tale and the Inferno
  • 6—  The Friar and the Summoner:  Chaucerian Contrapasso
  • 7—  The Clerk's Tale:  A Chaucerian "Poetics of Conversion"
  • 8—  The Merchant's Tale:  Allegory in the Mirror of Marriage
  • Bibliography

See also: 

• Bloch, R. Howard, and Frances Ferguson, eds. Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy. Berkeley: U of California P, 1989. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft809nb586/
  
  • R. Howard Bloch, Medieval Misogyny
  • Joel Fineman, Shakespeare's Will:  The Temporality of Rape 
  • Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Making up Representation:  The Risks of Femininity

April 2002: Minor additions, including:

• A pilgrimage could be murder on one's feet: Footwear of the Middle Ages (UTulsa) 

March 2002: A major edit and updating, including:  

• Chaucer's short lyric Trouthe (Representative Poetry Online, U of Toronto)
• Steven Reimer's excellent online course, Manuscript Studies: Medieval and Early Modern (U of Alberta)
• The Studio for Digital Projects and Research (NYU) listing of  the 88 known pre-1500 witnesses to the text of the Canterbury Tales; links to Chaucernet
• Gary Rich's sublime Ars Subtilior. Music of the late Medieval period
• Added a heading on the main page for Websites Devoted to Other Medieval Authors to centralize the growing number of websites online
• Judith P. Shoaf (U of Florida) verse translations of most of The Lais of Marie de France
• Richard J. Utz's Gender and Time in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (U of Northern Iowa)
• David Wilson-Okamura (Macalaster U) provides deft Examples of Chaucerian Revision
• Medieval Women Writers (Laurie Churchill, Ohio Wesleyan U) provides resources for women writing in Latin, Occitan, & French
• The Canterbury Tales and other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer (Ed. D. Laing Purves from an unknown base-text)
• A variety of papers from Essays in Medieval Studies: 
  • Timothy A. Shonk's  Harley MS 7333: The "Publication" of Chaucer in the Rural Areas Essays in Medieval Studies 15 (1998): 81-90
  • The Female Spellcaster in Middle English Romances: Heretical Outsider or Political Insider? by Barbara A. Goodman in Essays in Medieval Studies 15 (1998): 45-55
  • Claire Waters, Dangerous Beauty, Beautiful Speech: Gendered Eloquence in Medieval Preaching, Essays in Medieval Studies 14 (1997): online
• Deep linking to a number of sources within Bartleby.com:
  • J.G. Frazer's classic, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
  • The classic 1914 Oxford Shakespeare includes the Bard's 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and miscellaneous verse
  • The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1919)
  • Harvard Classics (New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909-17)--the whole set, fer cryin' out loud! 
• Deep linking to Steven Muhlberger's fine website at Nipissing U, Canada, including:
  • Fighting for Fun? What was at Stake in Formal Deeds of Arms of the 14th Century?
  • Deeds of Arms: A Collection of Accounts of Formal Deeds of Arms of the Fourteenth Century
• Elizabeth Bennett (Princeton) has provided a facing page translation of Rene d'Anjou's traictié de la forme et devis d'ung tournoy. 
• Deep linking to pages within The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts 
• Wharram Percy
• The Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Budapest's Medieval Manuscript Manual
• Deep linking to documents within The Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

• 11.07.01: (1) A number of new links throughout the Electronic Canterbury Tales, drawn from established websites and some exciting new resources, including Arnie Saunders' very fine page, English 330: Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales. (2) Added a new page, Manuscripts and Printed Editions. (3) Added a number of essays, notes, and images to individual tales. (4) Eliminated all Amazon.com references.  I made a grand total of $2.54 from sales linked to this site, but since Amazon doesn't pay anything under $100.00, the money is purely virtual). I canned the program.
  
• 09.03.00: A major e-publishing venture, the 18 volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21) is now online and offers substantive articles on all aspects of medieval literature.  In probably every case the opinions and findings of these older scholars has been superceded by recent investigations, but the CHMAL is still a grand resource and an important critical milestone (11,000 pages & 303 chapters)  featuring essays by important figures in medieval literary criticism. 
  
• 8.25.00: Added new categories to each page:  11.  Images & Multimedia 12. Language Helps & Recordings.  Each ECT page now offers 13 categories:

1. The Canterbury Tales in Middle English
2. The Canterbury Tales in Modern English Translation
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
5. Online Notes & Commentary
6. Online Articles
7. Student Projects & Essays
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course Materials
10. Images & Multimedia 
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
12. Potpourri
13. The Next Step

Full revision of all pages, updated links, and new material added.  

• 11.04.99: Added chapters from Frederick Martin's (Tulane U) e-dissertation in progress, Pilgrimage in the Age of Schism: Chaucer, Sociological Poetics, and the Canterbury Tales.
  
• 10.20.99:  Added Electronic Primary Chaucer Texts: What's Available Online, a comprehensive listing of Chaucerian texts online.  Initiated Amazon Associates program with book recommendations and active links to Amazon.com on several ECT pages.  If you by a book through a link to Amazon from these web pages, I get a small cut (between 5%-15%).  Maybe I'll earn enough to actually buy one of the books myself, instead of having to request them through my university's Inter-Library Loan service!
  
• 09.25.99:  Added articles from the online Catholic Encyclopedia (1913 ed.) to ECT pages. This is an ongoing effort.
  
• 08.15.99:  Added Guestbook and Search Engine from <http://www.mycomputer.com>. An utter failure.
  
• 08.10.99:  Dominion & Domination of the Gentle Sex:  The Lives of Medieval Women (Thinkquest) ; Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation:  Western Civ - Act II; The Medieval Fiefdom Website (Thinkquest); Lynn H. Nelson's introductory lectures on medieval history;  Guide to Medieval Terms (ORB), an alphabetized list of technical terms related to the Middle Ages; several tale specific essays; medieval history and philosophy courses on the ECT Main page. 
  
• 07.22.99: Addition of Chaucer in/and Popular Culture and The Chaucer Pedagogy Page to left frame.
  
• 07.02.99: Relevant links from D.L. Ashliman's (Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, U. of Pitsburg) Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts added to Main, Miller, Prioress, Pardoner ECT pages. Audio files added from the Chaucer Studio. Added Barron's Notes on the Canterbury Tales.
  
• 06.10.99: Harvard Chaucer Page links added to ECT pages.
  
• 06.06.99: Chaucer Pedagogy: Teacher Resources updated, including new assignments.  Assignments, K-12 added.
  
• 05.25.99: Documentation Primer added to each ECT page.
  
• 05.04.99: The Electronic Canterbury Tales Webpage launched, part of the Chaucer Pedagogy sub section of the Chaucer Metapage.

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