Luminarium
Luminarium: Geoffrey Chaucer
Luminarium offers Chaucer quotes, a biography, a collection of Chaucer's works, both in Middle and Modern English, a selection of essays about his times and his works and links to much of the other scholarly information about Chaucer on...
Harvard University
The Chaucer Page: Giovanni Boccaccio
From Harvard's Chaucer Page, a brief sketch on Boccaccio mainly focusing on his influence on Chaucer.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Letter to Pope About Thomas Becket's Death [Pdf]
This is a one-page PDF of a letter from William, archbishop of Sens, to the Pope, in relation to the death of Thomas Becket.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Sources of Additional Information on Chaucer
Links to resources devoted to Chaucer: biographies, bibliographies, discussion groups, images, works, and the like.
British Library
British Library: Virtual Books: Turning the Pages
Prepare for hours of fascination leafing through pages of 15 incredible original texts, from the Diamond Sutra, the oldest printed book, to an original copy of "Alice's Adventures Underground." Along the way, check out such varied texts...
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotations and a bibliography accompany this biography of Geoffrey Chaucer from The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Other
Online Companion to Middle English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer
A resource from Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. Provides a short biography of Geoffrey Chaucer and links to pages describing some of his best-known writings.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
These lesson plans, focusing on Chaucer's Wife of Bath, encourage students to explore the roles of women and the views of marriage during the Middle Ages. Website includes several links to further related information.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: English Romance
A survey of Geoffrey Chaucer's work, which was much influenced by romance, the dominant mode of secular fictional narrative in his time.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Other Authors
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page contains links to many other authors whose work was related to or influenced Chaucer's. Includes links to Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio, Boethius and more. A great site to check out on the subject.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: The High Style
Essay about Geoffrey Chaucer's use of the "high style" in middle English verse, characterized by an elegantly adorned diction reliant upon Latin and French borrowings.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: 14th Century English
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page of Harvard University provides biographical information on Chaucer, specifically on his social class and his learning/speaking/writing French. Explanation for why the commoners and aristocrats...
Harvard University
Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Comparison of Chaucer and Ovid
Full text of John Dryden's (1631-1700) Preface to The Fables (1700), the English poet's translation of Chaucer texts from the middle English. Dryden compares the styles of Ovid, Chaucer, and Boccaccio.
Towson University
Towson University: Edwin Duncan, ph.d.: A Basic Chaucer Glossary
A glossary of the modern equivalents of words most often found in Chaucer's works.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Geoffrey Chaucer. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Lease Granted to Chaucer
The text of a 1374 lease document that sheds light on the legal affairs of Geoffrey Chaucer and the real world of The Canterbury Tales.
English Verse
English Verse: Geoffrey Chaucer (C. 1344 1400)
While everyone remembers Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" few have read his shorter works. Three of his poems are available on this site, along with a brief biographical sketch.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Middle English
This article explains how Middle English developed from Old English, changing its grammar, pronunciation, and spelling, and borrowing words from French and Latin.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: William Caxton and the Introduction of Printing to England
This article explains how William Caxton brought the printing press to England and published printed versions of works by writers including Chaucer, Malory, Gower, Cicero, and Virgil.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: The Makars: Medieval Scottish Poetry
From morality to migraines: this article analyses key concerns in the late medieval poetry of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue [Excerpt]" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue." Diction is blue while tone is red and imagery is green. Click on any word to see the...
Curated OER
Beowulf to Buzzwords Words 12 K
Includes information, examples, and activities concerning how the English language has changed over time. Uses excerpts from Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, and other classics to illustrate how the English language has changed over the...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Geoffrey Chaucer
(1340-1400) English poet most famous for The Canterbury Tales.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Geoffrey Chaucer
The writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, who was a contemporary of Wycliffe, show us the character of the English tongue at that time. His Canterbury Tales, and the phraseology of Wycliffe's Bible, remind us of the dialects used by many of the...
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