Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales, Folio #: fol. 142r. c. 1450-1460. Artstor, library-artstor-org.
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Background Info on Chaucer & Medieval England
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- Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer WebsiteText and analysis of The Canterbury Tales, along with background information on Chaucer and medieval life, and a guide on pronunciation.
Chaucer A to ZCall Number: EWU-Cheney Upper Level Book Stacks PR1903 .R67 1999Publication Date: 19991 volume, 400+ page guide to Chaucer's language (Middle English), Chaucer's literary influences, literary forms of the period, contemporary historical events, the significance of biblical figures and saints who appear in Chaucer's works, the contributions of Chaucerian scholars, and extensive discussions of Chaucer's translations of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and Guillaume de Lorris' and Jean de Meun's Le Roman de la Rose.
Medieval EnglandCall Number: EWU-Cheney Main Level Reference DA129 .M43 1998Publication Date: 1998800+ page encyclopedia offers concise, answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in medieval England-art, architecture, law, literature, kings, commoners, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare, religion, and many others.
New Catholic Encyclopedia 2nd EditionCall Number: EWU-Cheney Main Level Reference BX841 .N44 2003Publication Date: 200314 volume set completely updating the first edition in 1967. Which updated the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. Useful for understanding the medieval worldview.
Women in the Middle AgesCall Number: EWU-Cheney Main Level Reference HQ1143 .W643 2004Publication Date: 20042 volume print set with 300 alphabetically arranged entries covering people and topics ranging from the third to the fifteenth centuries, and treat well-known figures, more recently discovered or re-evaluated figures.
Women and Gender in Medieval EuropeCall Number: EWU-Cheney Main Level Reference HQ1147.E85 W66 2006Publication Date: 2006900+ page encyclopedia covering: art and architecture, daily life, education, gender and sexuality, etc.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowArticles from the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and other Grove music encyclopedias, along with the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowArt reference works, including Grove Art Online (Dictionary of Art) and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Featuring articles, images, and bibliographies written by scholars in the field of visual culture.
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Benezit: Access restricted to 1 user at a time. Try again later if you cannot access these resources. - Gale Literature This link opens in a new windowThis compilation of various reference works is most useful if you want to read the standard interpretations of Chaucer's works. Most useful if you end up teaching Chaucer to high school students.
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- Chaucer MetapageLarge collection of annotated links to organize and categorize the most useful online sources for Chaucer. Began in 2016 by scholars at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies
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