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| | Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Chaucer's early popularity is attested by the many poets who imitated his works. | | | In 1324 John Chaucer, Geoffrey's father, was kidnapped by an aunt in the hope of marrying the twelve year-old boy to her daughter; an attempt to keep property in Ipswich. | | | Chaucer is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
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| | MSN Encarta - Chaucer |
| | Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343?-1400), one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. | | | Chaucer greatly increased the prestige of English as a literary language and extended the range of its poetic vocabulary and meters. | | | After the Knight's courtly and philosophical romance about noble love, the Miller interrupts with a deliciously bawdy story of seduction aimed at the Reeve (an officer or steward of a manor); the Reeve takes revenge with a tale about the seduction of a miller's wife and daughter. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761562849/Geoffrey_Chaucer.html
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| | Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Chaucer’s second period (up to c.1387) is called his Italian period because during this time his works were modeled primarily on Dante and Boccaccio. | | | Chaucer’s chief works during this time are the Book of the Duchess, an allegorical lament written in 1369 on the death of Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, and a partial translation of the Roman de la Rose. | | | To Chaucer’s final period, in which he achieved his fullest artistic power, belongs his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales (written mostly after 1387). |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | Chaucer's next work was Troilus and Criseyde, which was influenced by The Consolation of Philosophy, written by the Roman philosopher Boethius in the early sixth century and translated into English by Chaucer. | | | Chaucer did not complete the full plan for the tales, and surviving manuscripts leave some doubt as to the exact order of the tales that remain. | | | Chaucer's first published work was The Book of the Duchess, a poem of over 1,300 lines that is an elegy for the Duchess of Lancaster. |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_geoffrey_chaucer.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | The standard recent editions of Chaucer are: (1) "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Annotated and Accented, with Illustrations of English Life in Chaucer's Time. | | | Gascoigne tells us that his contemporary, Thomas Chaucer was the poet's son. | | | In the course of them, Chaucer disclaims of his books "thilke that sounen in-to sinne" i.e., those which are consonant with, or sympathetic with sin. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03642b.htm
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| | Geoffrey Chaucer - Books and Biography |
| | Chaucer took his narrative inspiration for his works from several sources, including the Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Loris, Ovid's poems, and such Italian authors as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. | | | The last years of his life Chaucer lived at Greenwich, "an Inne of Shrews," as the Host calls it in the Canterbury Tales, referring perhaps to the occasion when he was held up or mugged there, not once but twice in the same day. | | | Soon afterward Chaucer translated the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, and wrote the poem Parliament of Birds. |
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http://www.readprint.com/author-18/Geoffrey-Chaucer
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| | Renaissance Chaucer |
| | Laughter in the Courts of Love: Comedy in Allegory, from Chaucer to Spenser. | | | Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Eliot. | | | Chivalry in English Literature: Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare. |
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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/plummerj/rennchau.htm
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| | Geoffrey Chaucer: General Introduction |
| | Chaucer was following in the footsteps of Dante in his attempt to form vernacular English into a poetic language able to stand beside the language of Virgil and the classics. | | | Chaucer leads the reader to the point where the ability of any fictional tale to tell the truth is challenged, though not necessarily as radically denied as the Parson would wish. | | | Chaucer's earliest works may be termed "occasional poetry", if we accept that the Book of the Duchess was written to console John of Gaunt on the death of his wife Blanche in 1369, and if the Parliament of Fowls was written to mark the marriage of Richard II in 1382. |
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http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Chaucer
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| | GEOFFREY CHAUCER |
| | Chaucer wrote in Middle English, a language used from the 1100s to the end of the 1400s. | | | Chaucer knew the work of French and Italian writers as well as that of English ones. | | | GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340~-1400) was a Medieval English writer whose poetry ranks with Shakespeare's, and Whitman's, as the finest ever written in our language. |
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http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/People/Chaucer.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics) |
| | Chaucer writes about everyman and his stories represent one of the motliest crews in English literature: the Wife of Bath who has put away five husbands and is looking for a sixth; the pardoner, the reeve, the clerk, the knight, and a host of others from all walks of life. | | | While Cohen admits that "Chaucer's words are best," her prose adaptation of four of his tales captures the zest and vigor of Middle English and makes his stories accessible to the modern child. | | | Chaucer is one of the first great English authors of name; most (but not all) literary output in English prior to this time was anonymous. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553210823?v=glance
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| | Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales |
| | Chaucer the Pilgrim is the narrator of the tales, and he must give an accurate description of what is going on, even if he disagrees with the character's action. | | | The role of Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales is extremely important. | | | The narrator of the tales is Geoffrey Chaucer himself: but he speaks though a variety of media: "...Chaucer's pilgrim narrators represent a wide spectrum of ranks and occupations. |
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http://www.csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs2c/ch3.html
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| | The Digital Mirror - Manuscripts - Chaucer |
| | Amongst other Chaucer manuscripts in the Library's collections are three exemplars of his Tretyse on the Astrolabe, all with Welsh associations: Peniarth 359, NLW 3049D and NLW 3567B; the last of which was in the possession of John Edwards of Chirk, Denbighshire, as early as 1551. | | | Chaucer's work is permeated by humour, often a rough, vulgar humour, and he even pokes fun at himself on several occasions. | | | Geoffrey Chaucer (before 1346-1400) is considered to be the best English poet of the Middle Ages. |
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http://www.llgc.org.uk/drych/drych_s007.htm
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| | Chaucer, Geoffrey -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The type was established in “The Monk's Tale” from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. | | | He was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer and imitated Chaucer's style. | | | For six centuries Geoffrey Chaucer has retained his status in the highest rank of the English poets. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108409
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| | A Chaucer Chronology |
| | Chaucer borrows against his annuity; action for debt against Chaucer; letters of protection from the King. | | | Januage 16-March 9: Chaucer in France concerning marriage of Richard to French king's daughter Marie. | | | Katherine Swynford, sister of Philippa Chaucer, bears first son by Gaunt. |
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http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer/chronology.asp
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| | EXEMPLARIA: Teaching Chaucer in the 90s Pre-print |
| | While the uncritical praise of his pilgrims by Chaucer the naive pilgrim-narrator is qualified by numerous ironies, Chaucer's generosity also reassures the reader of the author's trust in the healing power of the pilgrimage, not a small part of which springs from the fellowship the pilgrims share in telling and responding to their tales. | | | Chaucer is not only aware of the traditional roles of medieval poets, story-tellers and church authors as exponents of generic manipulation, he will not let his audience escape without being bombarded by two, three, or more discrete discursive modes at the same time. | | | Particularly applicable is the possibility that the expanding personalities of the pilgrims and the scope of their tales overwhelmed Chaucer's original plan for two tales per pilgrim. |
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http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/sympo.html
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| | Chaucer, Geoffrey on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Providence and incest reconsidered: Chaucer's poetic judgement of his Man of Law. | | | GEOFFREY CHAUCER; Examining the varied life of the poet who wrote "The Canterbury Tales.".(BOOKS) | | | Fabliau plotting against romance in Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale.' (Geoffrey Chaucer) |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/Chaucer.asp
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| | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: A searchable online version at The Literature Network |
| | Despite this complacent assurance, the obvious fact is, that Chaucer in the old forms has not become popular, in the true sense of the word; he is not "understanded of the vulgar." In this volume, therefore, the text of Chaucer has been presented in nineteenth-century garb. | | | Chaucer's base humour was not of the "wink-nudge" innuendo sort, rather it was pure vulgarity. | | | especially how chaucer satirizes people in them....and the tale each person says kind of give us and idea of how that person's quality is. we are suppose to read atleast three tales of it and write an essay on "male-female relationships" of that age. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/chaucer/canterbury
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| | The Print and The Book: The Kelmscott Chaucer |
| | Morris' goal in printing his Chaucer was to produce not just a book, but a work of art, worthy of the quality of the earliest books, which Morris considered the golden era of book design and printing. | | | After a quick glance at the Kelmscott Chaucer, one might think the book was printed in the 15th or 16th century, not long after the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. | | | The opening title page of the Kelmscott Chaucer is representative of all of Morris' ideals of the book. |
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http://wt.mit.edu/~subway/Prints/chaucer.html
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| | ENL 4311 Chaucer's Women |
| | Chaucer / Chaucer's Women is intended to make the lives of these and other women, many of which are drawn from the legendary past shared by Chaucer and Christine de Pizan, accessible to twenty-first century readers. | | | Anyone who ever met Alisoun of Chaucer's Miller's Tale in a sophomore survey class is likely to remember her, but seeing her alongside her counterpart in Boccaccio's Decameron may make the reasons she is memorable more apparent. | | | As the Chaucer's Women Table of Contents presented below will indicate, our course will begin with consideration of the roles Chaucer played in some of his short poems and end with three judgmental perspectives from which his characters' lives can be viewed. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mnelson/enl4311.html
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| | The Classic Text: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | merging from the manuscript tradition, early printed editions of Chaucer borrowed heavily from the elaborate illustrations found in manuscript copies. | | | This tradition has continued throughout the history of Chaucer editions, until the twentieth century when production costs and larger press runs made illustrations prohibitively expensive. | | | Scholars feel The Canterbury Tales reached their instant and continued success because of their accurate and oftentimes vivid portrayal of human nature, unchanged through 600 years since Chaucer's time. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg073.htm
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| | Chaucer's Books |
| | Welcome to Chaucer's, an old fashioned bookstore crammed floor to ceiling with books (over 150,000 titles), and our warm, knowledgeable cast of characters ready to help you choose just the right one. | | | This year's choice for the Santa Barbara Reads program is When the Emperor Was Divine. | | | Local author Cork Millner will be signing his latest novel, I Love You. |
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http://chaucers.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
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| | Bibliography on Chaucer |
| | Commentaries, illustrated from medieval MSS., on the background to the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Man of Law's Tale, the Clerk's Tale, the Second Nun's Tale, the Friar's Tale, the Nun's Priest Tale, the Reeve's Tale, the Franklin's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and Chaucer's Tale of Melibee. | | | Organized by topic: reference; history; social and ideological background (general, racial myths, women in the middle ages, love and marriage, sumptuary laws, the supposedly flat earth), linguistic background, literary background, and individual authors (Boethius, Ovid, the Roman de la rose, Chaucer). | | | Also includes annotated bibliographies on travel and pilgrimage and "the Amazon voice in the Knight's Tale." |
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http://www.geoffreychaucer.org/bibliography
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Chaucer (Brief Lives S.) |
| | By the end of this book, I felt that knew as much about Chaucer the man, his literature and his life as if I had made a prolonged study of the subject. | | | Peter Ackroyd's most recent novel is The Clerkenwell Tales, set in Chaucer's London. | | | Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library Classics); Hardcover ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall (Introduction) |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0701169850
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| | NetSERF: People: Authors: Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400) |
| | A simple glossary to a number of Middle English terms that appear in Chaucer's works. | | | At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page." | | | "Reaping what is sown: Spenser, Chaucer and The Plowman's Tale" by David Paul Clark |
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http://www.netserf.org/People/Authors/Chaucer
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| | Baragona's Chaucer Home Page |
| | Many of the manuscripts are from the 15th century, but all chronicle the period in France and England of Chaucer's life. | | | All are accompanied by texts of the edition the reader is actually using. | | | The annotations are excellent and will give you a good idea whether or not you need to look at the work. |
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http://academics.vmi.edu/english/chaucer.html
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| | HERALD: the Geoffrey Chaucer (A Knight's Tale) Fanlisting |
| | This fanlisting is for the characterization of said author in the movie 'A Knight's Tale', as written by Brian Helgeland and portrayed by Paul Bettany. | | | A fanlisting is a site that attempts to bring together any and all fans of a particular subject, in this case the amazing character of Geoffrey Chaucer, as portrayed by Paul Bettany in the film, 'A Knight's Tale'. | | | HERALD: the Geoffrey Chaucer (A Knight's Tale) Fanlisting |
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http://fan.a-beautiful-life.net/herald
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| | Chaucer Pages |
| | Within the Context category Zatta includes links to sites devoted to Chaucer's authors, both 'classical' and near contemporary, whose works influenced his own: Boccaccio, Boethius, Dante, to name a few. | | | Links are listed in four sections: a) Chaucer bibliographies; b) general medieval bibliographies; c) Texts of The Canterbury Tales (searchable texts and sites to aid in understanding Chaucer's language) d) Other sources related to Chaucer (additional Chaucer pages as well as related medieval sites) e) General bibliographies and humanities databases." updated, Mary Alice Kirkpatrick (8/22/01) | | | Significant on this site (as of 10/17/01) are: (1) discussion questions for the last New Chaucer Society Meeting; (2) information about a proposed series of Chaucer Commentary Editions; and (3) information about the new Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales with a link to |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/chpages.htm
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| | vita - Richard Newhauser |
| | Thomas Honegger, From Phoenix to Chauntecleer: Medieval English Animal Poetry (Tübingen, Basil, 1996), in: Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997), 255-58. | | | "The Treatise on Vices and Virtues, Chaucer's 'Parson's Tale,' and Middle English Works on the Seven Deadly Sins," at the conference on "Revisiting Chaucer and Christianity," International Study Center, Canterbury Cathedral (invited conference, July 21-23, 2003). | | | "The Parson's Tale," in: R.M. Correale and M. Hamel, eds., Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury Tales I, Chaucer Studies 28 (Cambridge, Eng., 2002), pp. |
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http://www.trinity.edu/rnewhaus/vita.html
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Humanities: Literature in Art: Chaucer |
| | Chaucer Illustrations: Medieval and Modern Perspectives - Max Edward Cordonnier's digital paintings and illustrations of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. | | | Kelmscott Chaucer - Edward Burne-Jones: page 1 (with William Morris), 1896, manuscript illustration. | | | Chaucer and Pilgrim Pictures - From the Chaucer Scriptorium |
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http://dmoz.org/Arts/Humanities/Literature_in_Art/Chaucer
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| | Medieval Studies, Faculty |
| | Research Interests: Mythology and myth-making; the reception of classical mythology in the Middle Ages; feminist historiography; medieval women and the study of gender; modern medievalism (Tolkien; film studies); Chaucer; Christine de Pizan; Dante; Gawain Poet. |
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http://medieval.rice.edu/faculty.cfm
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| | (Chaucer Syllabus, English 500) |
| | Identify the major works of Chaucer, and be able to place them in a historical and literary context. | | | Catalogue Description: A study of selections from the major works of Chaucer with some emphasis placed upon his background and language. | | | Understand and compare themes, issues, genres, and techniques used in literature. |
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http://www.simegen.com/jean/500syl.html
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| | geoffreychaucer.org: an annotated guide to online resources |
| | Robinson's edition of the Canterbury Tales (hosted at the Michigan Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse) is now searchable from the side menu; expanded background section (general, culture, history, literature), more syllabi, new online texts. | | | Highly recommended: Daniel T. Kline's Electronic Canterbury Tales Project, a comprehensive guide to online texts and commentary, organized by tale. | | | The hardback edition of The Riverside Chaucer (1987) costs more than $60 (US) and weighs about eight pounds. |
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http://geoffreychaucer.org
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| | A Chaucerian Cookery |
| | Although Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pilgrims are fictional characters, the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas á Becket was an actual experience for many Medieval folk. | | | This article explores the lives of Chaucer's pilgrims had they been truly alive and their journey real. | | | GeoffreyChaucer - A Biography; Chaucer's Poetry; Food and His Poetry |
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http://www.godecookery.com/chaucer/ccookery.htm
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| | Penn State Press Journals: The Chaucer Review |
| | It acts as a forum for the presentation and discussion of research and concepts about Chaucer and the literature of the Middle Ages. | | | The Chaucer Review publishes studies of language, sources, social and political contexts, aesthetics, and associated meanings of Chaucer's poetry, as well as articles on medieval literature, philosophy, theology, and mythography relevant to study of the poet and his contemporaries, predecessors, and audiences. | | | Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University, Trustee of the New Chaucer Society (2006-10), and past Chair of the Kent State English Department (2000-2004). |
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http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_chaucer.html
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb Geoffrey Chaucer Page |
| | Muriel Bowden, A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. | | | Larry Benson is general editor of The Riverside Chaucer, the text of choice of Chaucer's complete works. | | | Alfred David, The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry. |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/chaucer.htm
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| | Jane Zatta's CHAUCER site |
| | Jane Zatta's passing, her CHAUCER site has been moved so that it might be preserved in recognition of her contributions to Chaucer and Middle English studies. | | | You'll be directed to the new location shortly, or you may click the above link to go now. | | | Please update any bookmarks or URLs, as this referral page will be removed in early 2006. |
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http://www.siue.edu/CHAUCER
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| | Chaucer MetaPage |
| | Special thanks to Emily Gold, Elizabeth Keim, and Mary Alice Kirkpatrick who have helped maintain the MetaPage by writing descriptions of sites, checking links, and suggesting additions. | | | This project was initiated at the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies by a group of medievalists interested in promoting Chaucer studies on the WWW. | | | and to encourage Chaucer studies, including those undertaken via "distance learning," at all levels of education. |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer
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| | English Faculty - Department of English - University of Maryland |
| | A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004). | | | Articles and reviews in collections and journals such as The New Medievalism: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Howard, PMLA, Journal of Medieval Latin, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and Imprint ; entries in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Chaucer Encyclopedia, Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (forthcoming). | | | Please contact us with comments, questions and feedback. |
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http://www.english.umd.edu/faculty/faculty-i-m.html
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| | Chaucer |
| | The first rhyme in a poem is "a," the second "b," etc. Chaucer's most common verse rhyme scheme in the Canterbury Tales, the rhyming couplet, would be described as "aa, bb, cc, dd" because it rarely repeats a rhyme due to the pressures on the poet to keep the narrative moving. | | | In Chaucer's hands this form is capable of ironic humor ("To Adam Scryvyn," "Complaint to His Purse") as well as sophisticated social commentary ("Gentilesse" and "Truth"). | | | Hiding the poem's dedicatee was the more ancient practice, found in classical times in the poems of Sappho and Catullus, and in medieval times used by the troubadors and trobaritz who named their beloveds by using "senhals" or pen names like "Tristan" or "Floris," probably borrowing the practice from Arab writers. |
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http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/chaucer.htm
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| | Biblography of Chaucer |
| | In 1381, Chaucer was sent to deal with marriage negotiations between Richard II and the daughter of the French King granted the title of "Knight of the Shire," an important Parliament post, and later (1389) was installed as the Clerk of the King's Works at Westminster, the Tower, and other property in south England. | | | According to Grose, "Chaucer's first foray into the King's Business appears in October of 1360, when he couriered letters from the Calais to England during peace negotiations there. | | | In this time Chaucer also married Philippa Roet, lady-in-waiting to the queen. |
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http://www.csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs2c/bib.html
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