Texts

[Those not available online may be purchased at the Tech Bookstore / 118 S. Main St. / 552-6444]

Required	Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. Ed. Larry Benson. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000 ISBN 0-395-97823-8
Required	Cooper, Helen. Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Second Ed. Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0198711557
Handout	Chaucer's Short Poems

PR1906.5 B68 1978, Brewer, Derek. Chaucer and His World
PR1906.5 C66 2000, Brown, Peter. A Companion to Chaucer
PR1906 L6, Loomis, Roger Sherman. A Mirror of Chaucer's World
PR 1905 P42 1992, Pearsall, Derek. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Personal, Ward, Jennifer. Woman in Medieval Europe 1200-1500

Web Links

• On-line Canterbury Tales (Librarius)
• Online edition of The General Prologue (ed. Edwin Duncan)
• Michael Murphy's Canterbury Tales in modern spelling (General Prologue, Wife of Bath's, Clerk's, Merchant's, and Franklin's Tales; requires Acrobat Reader)
• The Chaucer Metapage
• Chaucer site at Harvard (contains info on Chaucer's life, language, science, etc.)
  • Chaucer's pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary
• TEAMS texts: The Cook's Tale (Bodley 686), The Tale of Gamelyn, The Canterbury Interlude & The Tale of Beryn, Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, and two versions of the Plowman's Tale
• Boccaccio, The Decameron
• Andreas Cappellanus, Rules of Courtly Love
• Bullfinch's Mythology
• Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy pp. 48-55 (Fame and Fortune); pp. 126-139 (Fate & Providence); Book 5 (pp. 140-end: Chance, Free Will, Destiny, Eternity)
• Norton Anthology of English Literature: medieval estates and orders
• A Basic Chaucer Glossary
• Online Chaucer Bibliographies
• The SAC Online Chaucer Bibiography
  • The Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, originally published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Douay-Rheims English Translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible
• Glossarial Database of Middle English (Harvard)
  • A tool to investigate the contextualized uses and meanings of words in Chaucer, Gower, and others. To use:
    1. Type a word in the box at top left. Then click SEARCH DICTIONARY. The search engine will take a few seconds, come back with your word and offer to add it to the list. Click YES.
    2. At the bottom left choose a text or texts.
    3. At top right you should see the target and the text displayed. Click SEARCH (top right).
• The Middle English Compendium (Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography of ME Prose and Verse, and and extensive collection of ME prose and verse texts). Virginia Tech access only: click here to access the Library's "M" database index page and scroll down the the Middle English Compendium.
• Oxford English Dictionary, online (internal--VIVA--users only)
• Mosser, The Evolution of Present-Day English
• Mosser, WWW Medieval Resources
• Search Tools (including citation and formatting guides for research papers)
• Honor System
• Virginia Tech Library Catalogues
• Patristics site where you can find the text of Jerome adversus Jovinian in translation
• Engelonde: Resources for 14th-Century Studies
• International Medieval Bibliography (VIVA resource, via the Virginia Tech)
• The MLA bibliography (available through the Library Home Page: select "catalogs, directories, reference," and then navigate to the "M" listings)
• Tutorial for honing your Web search skills
• Alchemy & The Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Password protected)
• Internet Citation Guide