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Medieval Chaucer and Portal Sites
Chaucer MetaPage
Uuseful links for many Chaucer topics: Chaucer’s life, works, academic bibliography.
geoffreychaucer.org
Complete site for all things Chaucer: history, Chaucer’s life, language.
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)
Sites related to the life and works of Chaucer, including essays on Chaucer topics.
Geoffrey Chaucer:
The Electronic Canterbury Tales
The Electronic Canterbury Tales Project: with links to multiple resources, including online primary texts.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
The most complete and frequently updated website for medieval literary, language, and historical sites.
The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Useful search engine for many medieval topics.
Medieval and Chaucer Primary Texts
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Historical documents from the Middle Ages.
Locating Chaucerian Texts On-Line
Links to a wide range of Chaucerian texts online.
Representative Poetry Online
Chaucer is one of several poets’ works available.
Teams Middle English Texts
Online editions of medieval texts by the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages.
Middle English Language Resources
A Basic Chaucer Glossary
Middle English glossary with 100 most common words.
A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English
Searchable glossarial database.
Chaucer's Pronunciation, Grammar and Vocabulary
Self-teaching guide through proper Middle English pronunciation.
Middle English Dictionary
Searchable Middle English dictionary.
Middle English Glossarial Database
Searchable glossarial database.
The Chaucer MetaPage Audio Files
Useful collection of audio files for practicing Middle English pronunciation
The Great Vowel Shift
Background information on the Great Vowel Shift.
Listen for Pronunciation (audio files)
General Prologue lines 1-42
General Prologue lines 1-12 read quickly
General Prologue lines 1-12 read slowly
Chaucer Course Pages
Harvard University
Towson University
University of Maine at Machias
University of North Carolina
Virginia Military Institute
Washington State University
Medieval Historical Context
BBC History
Resources for breadth of English history.
Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
Collection of medieval maps.
Leaves of Gold
Background on medieval manuscript production.
Sources for Medieval England
Links to a wide range of medieval historical topics.
Medieval and Chaucer Bibliographies
Chaucer Bibliography Online
Searchable bibliography for Chaucerian books and articles.
Essential Chaucer
Annotated Chaucer bibliography from 1900-1984.
Thirty Year Working Bibliography For Chaucer and Middle English Literature
Derek Pearsall’s Thirty-Year Working Bibliography for Chaucer and Middle English Literature, 1970-2000.
Suggested Online Databases
English & Literature
Annual
Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL) (1920-1997;
no full-text; RefWorks help; saving searches) is a
standard reference work for English studies. It indexes books, articles, critical
editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations
published anywhere in the world. Coverage is international, including articles
in languages other than English. It is produced by Chadwyck-Healey under the auspices
of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) and the user interface is
provided by OhioLINK.
Literary Reference Center (all full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) is a comprehensive literary reference database
that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It
combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and
reference works, and hundreds of literary journals. Search results can be limited to literary criticism
or Masterplots. Users can browse most studied authors and works and view book highlights and the author
in focus. Features include a glossary and historical timeline. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Literature
Resource Center (all full-text; XLinks) provides access to biographies, bibliographies
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers
more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with
in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. It includes online versions
of Gale's Contemporay Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism,
and Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selections from Gale's
other Literature Criticism and For Students Series, such as Nineteenth
Century Literary Criticism and Short Stories for Students. It permits
searches by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes. It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.
MLA International Bibliography (1926-present; updated 10 times/year;
some full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides a classified
listing and subject index for books, journal articles, and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures,
folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association of America and the
user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
MLA International Bibliography
1963-present; more info; some full-text; RefWorks help
Classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Updated 10 times per year. Produced by Modern Language Association of America. Interface by Dataware.
General Purpose
Academic Search Premier (1984-present; updated daily; much full-text; RefWorks help) indexes and abstracts over 4,300 journals, many of them peer-reviewed, and provides full-text for over 3, 400 journals. This multidisciplinary database covers nearly all academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language, linguistics, the arts, literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Electronic Journal Center (about 1995-present; updates dependent upon publisher; all full-text; RefWorks help) is a multidisciplinary collection of about 5,000 journals published by Academic Press, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Psychological Association (PsycARTICLES), Association of Computing Machinery, Berkeley Electronic Press, BioOne, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald (MCB University Press), Ingenta, Institute of Physics, Kluwer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Optical Society of America, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Thieme and Wiley. Scholars can be notified by email about new relevant articles according to subject, author or journal title. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.
JSTOR (1st issue of 1st volume to 3 years of present; all full-text; RefWorks help) provides online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of academic disciplines including the arts, business, demographic studies, humanities, social sciences, and science.
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