This page contains a hotlist of exercises and educational materials on my webpages. They are geared for students of Chaucer and Middle English. Items are listed in alphabetical order, so if you have an assignment in your syllabus, you can look for it by title.

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Downloadable Handouts: Most of these files are in PDF format. You should be able to download them to your computer and then print them out or read them using the free program Adobe Acrobat. If you don't have a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you can download it here, for free. The Zip files can be opened as simple text files once they are de-compressed.

• 85 Resources Every Chaucer Student Should Know (PDF file, rough draft): Note that this draft does not yet have complete publication information for each entry; in some cases, it lists only the author and title.
• Four Versions of Chaucer's General Prologue (PDF file)
• Knight's Tale and Miller's Tale: The Connections (PDF file)
• The Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale: The Connections (PDF file)
• Nun's Priest's Tale and Dreams (PDF file)
• Numerology (PDF file)
• Old English and Middle English: What's the difference? (PDF file)
• Troilus and Criseyde through the ages (PDF file)
• Troilus and Criseyde: the complete text (ZIP file)
• The Wife of Bath and Excerpts from Le Roman de la Rose (PDF file)

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Weblinks on This Website

• "An ABC" (alias, "Priere a Nostre Dame")
• Chaucer Biography: An Outline
• Close Reading of a Literary Passage (a guide to closely examining a piece of literature)
• Courtly Love
• Cult of Chivalry
• Feudalism
• Great Vowel Shift: A Guide
• The Hundred Years' War
• The Indo-European Family of Languages
• Literary Terms: An alphabetical glossary with definitions and examples.
• Middle English Word List: London Dialect (Common and easily confused words in Chaucer and Middle English)
• Suggested Chaucer Topics
• Timelines

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External Chaucer Links

• Baragona's Chaucer Page
• Chaucer Bibliography Online (maintained by Mark Allen at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Studies in the Age of Chaucer)
• Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales (by Jane Zatta, last updated 1999)
• Chaucer Hath a Blog (Just for fun)
• Chaucer Homepage (Harvard)
• Chaucer Links (by Dr. P. Clements)
• Chaucer Metapage
• Dr. Duncan's Course Website contains judicious Chaucer links
• The Essential Chaucer (Bibliography, texts, and more)
• Dr. Hanly's Links to Chaucer and Medieval Studies. See also Hanly's WSU Chaucer Webpage on the Chaucer Metapage.
• Luminaria's Chaucer