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•  Chaucer Metapage
• 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. Its aims are: to organize and provide navigation aides for Chaucer resources on the WWW; to work towards enhancing and extending those resources, and; to encourage Chaucer studies, including those undertaken via "distance learning," at all levels of education.
• Electronic Canterbury Tales
  • Texts, images, references, web resources, etc. An excellent compilation of material organized by Dr. Dan Kline (Univ. of Alaska)
•  Chaucer Review Annotated Bibliography
• Annotated bibliography of  The Chaucer Review, the foremost scholarly journal devoted to Chaucer studies.  A great resource, but a rather large (long time to download) file.
• Chaucertext
• A limited on-line archive for electronic Chaucer Scholarship.
• The Essential Chaucer
• "The Essential Chaucer is a selective, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies from 1900-1984 . . . The bibliography is divided into almost 90 topics, including themes, techniques, and individual works by Chaucer."
• Harvard Chaucer Page
• Perhaps the best Chaucer site on the web. Constructed by Prof. Larry Benson (editor of The Riverside Chaucer) and his colleagues at Harvard. Historical and cultural background, introductions to all Chaucer's works, and summaries or English translations of many of the sources and analogues of stories in The Canterbury Tales.
• New Chaucer Society Home Page
• Official site of this international organization dedicated to the study of Chaucer in his period.  Links to other Chauicer sites
• Studies in the Age of Chaucer (SAC) Bibliography
• A searchable, annotated bibliography of every book and article written about Chaucer for the last several years.

Chaucer Texts

• The Canterbury Tales: HTML
• Edited by Sinan Kökbugur for the Librarius website. A complete text in frame version with index.
• The Canterbury Tales: ASCII
• University of Virginia E-text Center. One long file (ascii format) of the entire work.
• Table of Contents for Electronic Texts of Individual Canterbury Tales
• University of Virginia E-text Center.  An index of texts for individual tales.
• Litrix Reading Room Canterbury Tales
• Online version of the Canterbury Tales translated into modern English. Remember, use this translation in conjunction with your Middle English text.
• The Project Gutenberg Etext of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
• This electronicedition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@AOL.COM), March 1995. Additional assistance provided by Diane M. Brendan, andd prepared for distribution on the world Wide Web by James M. DeanUniversity of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716.
• The Canterbury Tales Project
  • An attempt to establish a textual history for the CT by transcribing and collating all MSS. Hosted by De Montfort University, Leicester. Must purchase CD's, but some material available online.
• Book of the Duchess
  • An online Beta version of the text
• Translation of the Book of the Duchess into modern English
  • Provided by Laurel Amtower, Department of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, this site also includes translations of some CT and T&C.

Dictionaries and Reference Material

• The Middle English Dictionary:
  • Go here first for a username and password for the trial version. Be sure to read the terms of use.
  • MED - access via the Middle English Compendium
  • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (searchable)
• Middle English Glossarial Database (http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/tools/)
• A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English
• Search Online Medieval & Classical Library (Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite)
• The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
• A Basic Chaucer Gloassary
• A Glossarial Database of Middle English

Bible Resources

• St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible - The canonical medieval bible, in Latin, completed by St. Jerome in 405.
  Browse the Vulgate (and other bibles) here
• Search Engine for the Vulgate
• The Douay-Rheims Bible Home Page - The "standard" scholarly English translation of the Vulgate. Medievalists still use this version today, even though the translations date from the late 16th century.
• Search Douay-Rheims Bible