Luminarium
Luminarium: Sources of Additional Information on Chaucer
Links to resources devoted to Chaucer: biographies, bibliographies, discussion groups, images, works, and the like.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotations and a bibliography accompany this biography of Geoffrey Chaucer from The Catholic Encyclopedia.
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 Geoffrey Chaucer Page: A Brief Chronology
This timeline of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times from 1300 to 1400 provides a historical and social context for The Canterbury Tales. Features links to related topics.
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: 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 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
The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Piers Plowman"
Full text of William Langland's (1332?-1400?) middle English narrative poem "Piers Plowman." Includes scholarly introduction that notes parallels between the poem and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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.
Other
Goucher English / General Prologue
This site, prepared for college English literature students, deals with the following aspects of Chaucer's General Prologue from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Form, Characters, Summary, Issues, and General Sources. Also contains...
Other
Geoffery chaucer.org: A Guide to Online Resources
A detailed online guide to numerous websites that deal with the life and the works of Geoffery Chaucer, author of "The Canterbury Tales."
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Lyric Poetry
A brief note about the English lyric poetry prior to Chaucer and how it relates to Chaucer's "tales." Links provided to related topics.
Other
Goucher College: "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"
The following from the Goucher College are examined in regard to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Characters, Summary, and Issues and General Research Sources. Some thought-provoking...
Other
University of St. Thomas: Virtual Medieval Church: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Fictionalized Geoffrey Chaucer introduces, you, the reader to The Canterbury Tales.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Barltett's Familiar Quotations: Geoffrey Chaucer
A list of famous lines from Chaucer, mainly from "The Canterbury Tales."
Other
Univ. Of Wisconsin: Rare Editions of "Canterbury Tales"
The libraries of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, have published reproductions of a variety of early printings of "The Canterbury Tales." See selected pages from an early fifteenth-century illustrated edition, from a rare...