Texts

If you already own an edition containing the complete Canterbury Tales in Middle English, please check with me to see if it will work for you in lieu of the Fisher and Allen edition.

Required	Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Complete Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. John H. Fisher and Mark Allen [ISBN-10: 0838457088 | ISBN-13: 978-0838457085]
Required	Cooper, Helen. Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Second Ed. Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0198711557
Scholar Resource	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: commercialized site)
• 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 and now Michigan)
  • A tool to investigate the contextualized uses and meanings of words in Chaucer, Gower, and others. To use:
• The Middle English Compendium (Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography of ME Prose and Verse, and and extensive collection of ME prose and verse texts). .
• Oxford English Dictionary, New Edition, Oxford English Dictionary, New Edition, online (from off-campus EZ-Proxy sign-in)
• Daniel W. Mosser, The Evolution of Present-Day English
  
• Honor System
• Virginia Tech Library Catalogues
• Patristics site where you can find the text of Jerome adversus Jovinian in translation
• 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)