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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Other Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: John Lydgate

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides a brief biography and general critique of his "high style" English lyric poetry, with links to several of his works, some annotated. Beautiful color picture from "Sege of Thebes."
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Main Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides materials for Harvard's Chaucer classes. It provides a wide range of texts and translations of Chaucer's works along with critical articles from various perspectives and general...
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: A Brief Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Deposition of Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
Deposition from the Scrope-Grosvenor Trial, one of two "autobiographical statements" attributed to Chaucer. Includes a description of Chaucer's coat-of-arms.
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Contemporary Reputation

For Students 9th - 10th
Features praise in verse for Geoffrey Chaucer by his contemporaries: Lydgate, Hoccleve, Gower, Usk, and Deschamps. A rare look at the community that existed among 14th century English writers.
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Clerk of the Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of a document instructing the poet Chaucer, as Clerk of the Works, to oversees the building of jousting tournament scaffolds.
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Tournaments and Ceremonies

For Students 9th - 10th
Note on the jousting tournament and its cultural meaning and literary representation (such as in Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale").
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: On Marriage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides the vv.8822-8244 of F.S. Ellis's English translation of the 13th-century novel On Marriage, or Le Roman de la rose (The Romance of the Rose). This is a great site to check out on the...
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The Geoffrey Chaucer Page:"confession" of Fals Semblant

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides information from a 1901 English translation offered as a resource in the Harvard Chaucer curriculum. This article from Le Roman de la rose is medium size in length.
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The Harvard Chaucer Page: The High Style

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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The Harvard Chaucer Page: English Romance

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of Geoffrey Chaucer's work, which was much influenced by romance, the dominant mode of secular fictional narrative in his time.
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The Harvard Chaucer Page: "The Tale of Gamelyn"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of the Middle English 14th century verse romance, "The Tale of Gamelyn," which was popular during Chaucer's lifetime.
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The Harvard Chaucer Page: 14th Century English

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Piers Plowman"

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Comparison of Chaucer and Ovid

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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The Great Vowel Shift

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Do you know what the Great Vowel Shift is? Check out this site to learn more how this shift played a part in the history of the English Language.
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Harvard University Library: Open Collections: Contagion: Florence Nightingale

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information about Florence Nightingale along with access to Nightingale's letters and books (scanned originals plus transcripts) from Harvard's collections. Part of a larger site about historical perspectives on disease.
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Harvard University: Hemoglobin Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and images regarding hemoglobin synthesis from heme and globin are provided by Harvard University.
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Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: 1.2 Meter Millimeter Wave Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the collection of 1.2m millimeter wavelength radio telescopes that are operated by the Millimeter Wavelength Group at Harvard Smithsonian. It details some history of radio astronomy and of the telescope itself, gives great...
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Harvard Robotics Laboratory

For Students 9th - 10th
Research projects on computational vision, neural networks, tactile sensing, motion control and VLSI systems. Plus general info, Harvard and robotics related pages.
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Royal Astronomical Society: Steady State Theory of an Expanding Universe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In-depth research about the steady-state theory of the expanding universe found within a bibliographic database of astronomical literature. Learn about the theory that asserts that new matter is continuously created as the universe expands.
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Harvard Medical School: History of Sickle Cell Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is put out by a professor of the Harvard Medical School. It contains factual information on Sickle Cell Disease and the information is set up by links under different subject headings. This is a great site to check out on the...
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Harvard: An Overview of Hemoglobin

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview on Hemoglobin from Harvard Medical School, with suggested medical textbooks listed for more in depth information.