WEB SOURCES FOR GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND THE CANTERBURY TALES

a       http://www.teacheroz.com/Middle_Ages.htm

List of Sites with information on a wide range of Medieval topics. Good sites on Women, clergy, etc.

a       http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/searchEverything.php

Pictures of the various pilgrims, taken from the Ellesmere Manuscript.

a       http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/clothing.html

The Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection: Clothing in the Middle Ages -- brief description of medieval clothing.

a       http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/medievalinks.htm#General%20Medieval%20Costume

List of sites on Medieval clothing

a       http://www.godecookery.com/pilgrims/pilgrims.htm

Pilgrims Passing To and Fro: a description of the various pilgrims, with information on a variety of medieval topics, including cookery. Also, lots of pictures.

a       http://faculty.gilman.edu/US/JamieSpragins/Euro_Hum_2002-03/Chaucer/Presentations.htm

Analyses of each of the pilgrims. College level. Middle English version of the text.

a       http://www.geocities.com/elangoc/medieval/careers.html

a       http://members.tripod.com/hkcarms/occ.html

a       http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/medsoc/

a       http://stronghold.heavengames.com/history/medievalpeople/index_html (short definitions)

Medieval society and professions.

a       http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/chivalry.html

a       http://www.imh.org/imh/kyhpl2a.html#xtocid165607

a       http://www.hyw.com/books/history/Tourname.htm

a       http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crus/hd_crus.htm

Knights: the Code of Chivalry, the Crusades, & tournaments

a       http://www.chronique.com/

a       http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medknight.html

Chivalry (look under Knighthood)

Training of a Squire (Look under Knighthood)

a       http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/crecy.htm

a       http://www.archeryweb.com/archery/crecy.htm

Battle of Crecy (yeoman)

a       http://www.hyw.com/Books/History/Medi0000.htm

Medieval Warfare: Place of yeomen and the long bow in medieval military history. Scan down the page. Also chivalry.

a       http://www.britainexpress.com/History/medieval-monastery.htm

a       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey

a       http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/morelign.html

Sites with information on daily life of monks and nuns.

d       http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/zatta/prioress.html

Information on the Prioress and her duties, as well as her tale.

d       http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/friars.htm

Information on friars

d       http://www.geocities.com/elangoc/medieval/trading.html#western

d       http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/trade.html

d       http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/text/marketplace.html?tqskip1=1

Info on merchants and trade in the Middle Ages

a       http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/medieval2.html

a       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_university

a       http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Medieval_Schools_and_Universities.htm

Medieval Schools and Universities (Oxford Cleric)

a       http://www.crystalinks.com/alchemy.html

Alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone. (Oxford Cleric)

a       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_university

a       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serjeant-at-law

a       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assizes

Information on the position of Serjeant at Law: a sort of lawyer, and on the Assize Courts (in England).

a       http://individual.utoronto.ca/jensutherl/minireportfebruary.html#2

Information on the Franklin and his position in Medieval society (first essay) ,on women in Medieval society (scan down the page to “Women and Work”), and on Medieval medicine (scan down). Also, a source for the Wigfe of bath (La Vielle).

a       http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/trade.html

a       http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1820/WSP/ships.html#cog

a       http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/navigate.htm

Information on ships (cog, caravel, carrack, long ship), navigation, and travel in the Middle Ages.

d       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_medicine

Medieval medicine, including the four humors

a       http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medlady.html

a       http://www.cusd15.k12.il.us/myra/Women.htm

The position of Women in the Middle Ages. See also the first source for several excellent sites.

d       http://www.camelotintl.com/village/peasant.html

d       http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medfarmer.html

d       http://www.historyonthenet.com/Medieval_Life/farming.htm

d       http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/medieval_agriculture1.htm

Life for peasants in the Middle Ages (plowman)

a       http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/windmills.html

a       http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/watermill

Information on medieval mills

d       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inns_of_Court

Information on the Inns of Court, where the manciple worked.

d       http://www.co.ulster.ny.us/sheriff/admin/history/ch1.htm

Info on the history of sheriffs, which developed from the position of reeve.

a       http://www.stjohns-chs.org/english/Medieval/pdr.html

a       http://www.123helpme.com/assets/13862.html

a       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence

Information on pardoners and Chaucer’s pardoner and on indulgence, which he was licensed by the Church to sell...

a       http://www.godecookery.com/mtales/mtales13.htm

Inns and taverns in the Middle Ages

d       http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/canterbury/

Summaries of the tales told by each pilgrim.

CHAUCER SITES:

a       http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

The Geoffrey Chaucer website, with information on Chaucer, his life, his works, and the times in which he lived.

a       http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

A very complete site with information about Chaucer and all of his works.

a       http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/linksto.htm

A list of links to sites on Chaucer.

a       http://www.loyno.edu/~letchie/becket/tour/index.htm

Take a virtual pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral to refresh your memory of St. Thomas a Becket and his murder.  Click on "Start Tour" and visit stops 1 - 9 on the tour.