21. The Classic Text: Geoffrey Chaucer Manuscript illuminations from the University of WisconsinMadison's special exhibit http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg073.htm

G eoffrey Chaucer pursued many occupations during his life: soldier, diplomat, intelligence officer, construction supervisor, Controller of Customs, and member of Parliament. Yet, it is for his literary accomplishments that he has achieved enduring fame. The Canterbury Tales , never completed, represents his magnum opus and the crowning achievement of his life. H e began work on The Canterbury Tales about 1387, and intended for each of his thirty pilgrims to tell four tales, two while traveling to Canterbury and two while traveling from Canterbury. However, only twenty-three pilgrims received a story before Chaucer's death in 1400. C haucer's Tales quickly spread throughout England in the early fifteenth century. Scholars feel The Canterbury Tales reached their instant and continued success because of their accurate and oftentimes vivid portrayal of human nature, unchanged through 600 years since Chaucer's time. George Macy, founder of The Limited Editions Club wrote on The Canterbury Tales: . . . it has been said of The Canterbury Tales that all of humanity moves through its pages. The stories are full of an inimitable humor, at once friendly and shrewd. The points are often made casually, often with bludgeon strokes, but they are always human and illuminating.

22. A Chaucerian Cookery An examination of the foods found in the writings of the English poet geoffrey chaucer. Included is A chaucerian Feast, which contains recipes and instructions for presenting a feast based on chaucer. http://www.godecookery.com/chaucer/ccookery.htm

GeoffreyChaucer - A Biography; Chaucer's Poetry; Food and His Poetry The Franklin and the Cook; Feasting in Chaucer's Poetry Chaucer's Foods A-Z Go We Dyne; Feeste and Cheere; A Gentil Pasture Mete and Drynke; Maketh Feeste Book I: Part One Part Two Part Three Part One ... Bibliography Please visit our companion site: Pilgrims Passing To and Fro Although Chaucer's Canterbury Tales A Chaucerian Cookery has been rated VERY GOOD by both and Looking for something specific at Gode Cookery? Search Gode Cookery courtesy of Master.com Previous 5 Sites Skip Previous Previous ... The Gode Cookery Bookshop Medieval Cookery Books for sale at the Bookshop THE GODE COOKERY RING HOW TO SUPPORT THIS SITE RDCSoft has been a major supporter of this site since its earliest days and has graciously supplied Gode Cookery with free hardware, software, and hardware maintenance. Please help us repay their generosity by visiting their website RDCSoft.com A Chaucerian Cookery James L. Matterer A Chaucerian Cookery entered the WWW on February 4, 1998.

23. Chaucer Pages Jokinen also provides links to chaucer s works and geoffrey chaucer Additional Sources, over 80 links to biographical information, additional essays, images http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/chpages.htm

HOME Chaucer's Works Bibliography Life and Times ... About this MetaPage Chaucer Pages Edwin Duncan's The General Prologue, An Electronic Edition Read the Explanation on the opening page. ]" Elizabeth Keim (12/18/00) New Chaucer Society Home Page Official site of this international organization dedicated to the study of Chaucer in his period. Information about the society (officers, membership, meetings), about its journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer (journal not online), and links to other "Chaucer Related" sites. Chaucertext Significant on this site (as of 10/17/01) are: (1) discussion questions for the last New Chaucer Society Meeting; (2) information about a proposed series of Chaucer Commentary Editions ; and (3) information about the new Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales with a link to Sources and Analogues II Home Page Alan Baragona's Chaucer Page "Alan Baragona of Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, offers a wealth of useful links with informative annotations. Links are listed in four sections: a) Chaucer bibliographies; b) general medieval bibliographies; c) Texts of The Canterbury Tales (searchable texts and sites to aid in understanding Chaucer's language) d) Other sources related to Chaucer (additional Chaucer pages as well as related medieval sites) e) General bibliographies and humanities databases." updated, Mary Alice Kirkpatrick (8/22/01)

24. Boccaccio (general Note) Harvard University site commenting on the relationship of Boccaccio's and chaucer's writings. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/boccaccio/

THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Giovanni Boccaccio is, with the older Dante and the contemporary Francis Petrarch, one of the three great poets of the Italian fourteenth century. Chaucer knew the works of all three, and it has been speculated that he may even have met both Petrarch and Boccaccio (but see below). Of the three, Boccaccio was the one on whom Chaucer drew most heavily, and in some sense strove to emulate; Chaucer based Troilus on Boccaccio's Il Filostrato and his Knight's Tale on Il Teseida , and Chaucer's elaborate high style owes something to Boccaccio's attempt to emulate the classics in his own vernacular. In his Monk's Tale Chaucer drew on Boccaccio's Latin works, his account of the falls of famous men and his book of illustrious women. A number of the Canterbury tales tell stories that also appear in Boccaccio's Decameron There is a slim possibility that Chaucer met Boccaccio, who was living in Certaldo, just south of Florence, in the 1370's when Chaucer was in Italy. Donald Howard, in his biography ( Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World

25. The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage geoffrey chaucer Fine Arts Program. Medieval Resources. chaucer. Early English Drama. geoffrey chaucer. Chronology. Concordance. Research Links. chaucer Glossary. chaucer Gallery. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

Life of Chaucer Chronology The Canterbury Tales Teach Yourself Chaucer ... Site Index Click on one of the subject buttons above, or click on Site Index to search for specific topics or titles. Recent additions: Derek Pearsall's Thirty Year Bibliography The Monk's Prologue and Tale have been added to the Interlinear Translations of Some Canterbury Tales (Apr 19 2004). This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. (Others of course are welcome to use it.) It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page. tolmie@fas.harvard.edu

26. Geoffrey Chaucer & Co. Home The staging of all 24 Canterbury Tales. Each of the tales is fully enacted in modern English. Original music by San Francisco Bay Area awardwinning composer John Geist. http://www.chaucertheatre.org

Last revised: Why Chaucer? Because... He's Vibrant! Long before Shakespeare was born, Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales, a superb theatrical exploration of the human comedy and condition. Enter! Events Company Tour ... About Us

27. The Canterbury Tales -- Chapter 46 The Second Nun's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales. Modernized spelling. chaucer based his story of St. Cecilia on Voragine's Golden Legend. http://www.litrix.com/canterby/cante046.htm

The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer Search for this book on Amazon.Com: Donate to Litrix? THE SECOND NUN'S TALE OF THE LIFE OF SAINT CECILIA This maiden bright, Cecilia, her life saith, Was Roman born and of a noble kind, And from the cradle tutored in the faith Of Christ, and bore His gospel in her mind; She never ceased, as written do I find, To pray to God, and love Him, and to dread, Beseeching Him to keep her maidenhead. And when this maiden must unto a man Be wedded, who was a young man in age, And who had to his name Valerian, And when the day was come for her marriage, She, meek of heart, devout, and ever sage, Under her robe of gold, well-made and fair, Had next her body placed a shirt of hair. And while the organ made its melody, To God alone within her heart sang she: "O Lord, my soul and body guide to The Unsoiled, lest I in spirit ruined be." And for His love Who died upon a tree, Each second or third day she used to fast, And ever prayed she till the day was past. The night came, and to bed she must be gone

28. Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College Provides information on the college, school policies, curriculum and exam results. http://www.geoffreychaucer.southwark.sch.uk/

29. Geoffrey Chaucer - Biography And Works geoffrey chaucer. Extensive Biography of geoffrey chaucer and a searchable collection of works. geoffrey chaucer. Search all of geoffrey chaucer http://www.online-literature.com/chaucer/

Home Author Index Shakespeare The Bible ... Geoffrey Chaucer Fiction The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Search all of Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1340/44, died 1400) is remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London. He was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler, and his wife Agnes. Little is known of his early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin, and Italian. In 1359-1360 Chaucer went to France with Edward III's army during the Hundred Years' War. He was captured in the Ardennes and returned to England after the treaty of Brétigny in 1360. There is no certain information of his life from 1361 until c.1366, when he perhaps married Philippa Roet, the sister of John Gaunt's future wife. Philippa died in 1387 and Chaucer enjoyed Gaunt's patronage throughout his life. Between 1367 and 1378 Chaucer made several journeys abroad on diplomatic and commercial missions. In 1385 he lost his employment and rent-free home, and moved to Kent where he was appointed as justice of the peace. He was also elected to Parliament. This was a period of great creativity for Chaucer, during which he produced most of his best poetry, among others

30. Geoffrey Chaucer geoffrey chaucer is remembered as the author of Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/chaucer.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43-1400) Writer, official and bureaucrat, the outstanding English poet before William Shakespeare . Geoffrey Chaucer is remembered as the author of Canterbury Tales , which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. Although he spent one of two brief periods of disfavor, Chaucer lived the whole of his life close the centers of English power. 'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir love.' (from Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London. His name was of French origin and meant shoemaker. Chaucer was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the kings's butler, and his wife Agnes. Little is known of his early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin, and Italian. The exists no memoirs of Chaucer, but Canterbury Tales perhaps gives a sight of the writer: "Thou lookest as thou woulds find an hare

31. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ~ Presented By The Electronic Literature Foundation The Canterbury Tales. By geoffrey chaucer Begin your Pilgrimage Presented by The Electronic Literature Foundation © 19992004 chaosCafe.com. http://www.canterburytales.org/

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32. Click2Flicks - A Knight's Tale - Chapter 1 Information and links on themes presented in the movie, including medieval life, the Black Prince, Wat Tyler and geoffrey chaucer. http://www.click2flicks.com/knights_tale/knight_tale_ch1.htm

A KNIGHT'S TALE THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE STORY CHAPTER LINKS 1. STORY PREFACE 2. CLASS DISTINCTIONS 3. LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES 4. PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES ... 10. ALL ARE KILLED PREFACE Let each man tell his tale... The Knight's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer Our story begins in 1360. It was a time of castles and intrigue, of knights and chivalry Less than twenty years before, the Black Death had decimated Europe’s population. Twenty years later, Wat Tyler would meet his fate while leading a peasant uprising. In the meantime, Geoffrey Chaucer the great English poet, was writing his famous Canterbury Tales The Knights of France and England had tales to tell of their own. Of jousting and tournaments. Of fair maidens and dragons . Of King Arthur and the Round Table. English speakers then did not sound like English speakers today. (You will need WAV for this link.) But people who attended the popular jousting tournaments of the 14th century expected from their heroes what we expect from ours: Courage in the face of great danger. GO TO CHAPTER 2

33. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ~ Presented By ELF The Canterbury Tales. by geoffrey chaucer. To access this edition of geoffrey chaucer s Canterbury Tales, please download an updated browser today. http://www.canterburytales.org/canterbury_tales.html

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34. The Canon Of John Lydgate Page John Lydgate's life overlapped with that of geoffrey chaucer, whom he repeatedly refers to as his master and model . . . . Website for this scholarly project. Includes a selection of critical studies as well as archived texts. http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/lydgate.htm

The Canon of John Lydgate Project Stephen R. Reimer Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E5 email: Stephen.Reimer@UAlberta.Ca Table of Contents The Canon of John Lydgate: Project Descriptions and Reports The Lydgate Canon: A Project Description (1990) (Full text, 12K) The Canon of John Lydgate: A Progress Report (1995) (Full text, 25K) The Canon of John Lydgate: Related Papers "A Fragment of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady " (1995) (Abstract, 2K) "Medieval Manuscript as WWW Document" (1995) (Abstract, 5K) ... : Contexts and Hypertext" (1996) Lydgate's Lives of Ss. Edmund and Fremund A Hypertext Edition of Lydgate's Lives of Ss. Edmund and Fremund Other Lydgate Sites on the Web "Hood of Green" : The text of a scurrilous satire on a lady, attributed to Lydgate in MS Harley 2255, but rejected from the Lydgate canon by MacCracken (available on-line by courtesy of J. Dean and J. Lidaka). Links to Other Medieval Literature and Medieval Manuscripts Sites on the Web Next page ENGL 324: "Chaucer"course bibliography ENGL 403: "Studies in Literary Themes: Robin Hood"course bibliography "John Lydgate"course bibliography Medieval Learning course page University of Alberta's Department of English Page The Canon of John Lydgate Project English; University of Alberta; Edmonton, Canada

35. ClassicNotes: Geoffrey Chaucer Biography on geoffrey chaucer written by Harvard students; includes a full ClassicNote on the Canterbury Tales. geoffrey chaucer. http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_geoffrey_chaucer.html

Member login: Username Password Cancel Membership Tell a Friend! Enter e-mail address: Search GradeSaver dictionary thesaurus Hosted by pair Networks ClassicNote on Geoffrey Chaucer About Geoffrey Chaucer Before William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer was the preeminent English poet, and still retains the position as the most significant poet to write in Middle English. Chaucer was born in the early 1340s to a middle-class family. His father, John Chaucer, was a vintner and deputy to the king's butler. His family's financial success came from work in the wine and leather businesses. Little information exists about Chaucer's education, but his writings demonstrate a close familiarity with a number of important books of his contemporaries and of earlier times. Chaucer was likely fluent in several languages, including French, Italian and Latin. Chaucer first appears in public records in 1357 as a member of the house of Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster. This was a conventional arrangement in which sons of middle-class households were placed in royal service so that they may obtain a courtly education. Two years later Chaucer served in the army under Edward II and was captured during an unsuccessful offensive at Reims, although he was later ransomed. Chaucer served under a number of diplomatic missions. By 1366 Chaucer had married Philippa Pan, who had been in service with the Countess of Ulster. Chaucer married well for his position, for Philippa Chaucer received an annuity from the queen consort of Edward II. Chaucer himself secured an annuity as yeoman of the king and was listed as one of the king's esquires.

36. Meals & Manners (general Note). The page is part of Harvard's geoffrey chaucer page, and it contains information on what food was eaten and the manner in which it was consumed, with links expanding the text. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/

THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE It snewed in his hous of mete and drynke; Of alle deyntees that men koude thynke, After the sondry sesons of the yeer, So chaunged he his mete and his soper. Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in muwe, And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe. Wo was his cook but if his sauce were Poynaunt and sharp, and redy al his geere. (General Prologue, I.345-54.) Feasts In the fourteenth century, feasts became ever more elaborate and ceremonial, with many courses, each marked by a "sotelte" an elaborate, often allegorical, construction which helped define the "theme' of the feast. For a royal feast in 1387 (which Chaucer might have attended, though perhaps not at the high table) and an archepiscopal feast (with descriptions of the "soteltes") in 1447 see: Feasts in 1387 and 1443 It is hard to believe that people actually ate, much less enjoyed, so many dishes and so many courses. Not every one was priviliged to partake of such abundance, even at the feasts: some menus specify that those seated elsewhere than at the high table are served with a different menu, with fewer dishes to each course. Nevertheless, the tables of the nobility even on ordinary days were characterized by an abundance of different dishes. This is demonstrated by the expense accounts for an embassy from Aragon, which spent 58 days in England; their expenditures for food and lodging are recorded for each day:

37. A Treatise On The Astrolabe possible. A Treatise on the Astrolabe. geoffrey chaucer, appr. 1391. Lyte End Note geoffrey chaucer lived appr. 13401400. A Treatise http://art-bin.com/art/oastro.html

Please note: A Treatise on the Astrolabe Geoffrey Chaucer, appr. 1391 And Lowys, yf so be that I shewe the in my light Englissh as trewe conclusions touching this mater, and not oonly as trewe but as many and as subtile conclusiouns, as ben shewid in Latyn in eny commune tretys of the Astrelabie, konne me the more thank. And preie God save the king, that is lord of this langage, and alle that him feith berith and obeieth, everich in his degre, the more and the lasse. But considre wel that I ne usurpe not to have founden this werk of my labour or of myn engyn. I n'am but a lewd compilator of the labour of olde astrologiens, and have it translatid in myn Englissh oonly for thy doctrine. And with this swerd shal I sleen envie. Prima pars. -The firste partie of this tretys shal reherse the figures and the membres of thyn Astrelabie by cause that thou shalt have the gretter knowing of thyn owne instrument. Secunda pars. -The secunde partie shal techen the worken the verrey practik of the forseide conclusiouns, as ferforth and as narwe as may be shewed in so small an instrument portatif aboute. For wel woot every astrologien that smallist fraccions ne wol not be shewid in so small an instrument as in subtile tables calculed for a cause. Tertia pars.

38. Geoffrey Chaucer At LiteratureClassics.com -- Essays, Resources Essays on chaucer's life and works as well as etexts of 'The Canterbury Tales' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'. http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Chaucer/

Start your day with a thought-provoking quote from the world's greatest thinkers and writers. Sign up to The Daily Muse for free. Geoffrey Chaucer English poet, before Shakespeare, whose varied work includes one of the greatest poems, The Cantebury Tales Chaucer was the first in a tradition of English poets who would play a significant role in the development of literature. He served as a public servant for most of his life, aiding three successive kings. His travels abroad, particularly to France, where he encountered French Romanticism, had a profound influence on the style of his writing. Chaucer's work is characterised by variety subject matter, genre, tone and style; they represent some of the most careful and tolerant consideration of philosophical ideas. The Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest works of English poetry. It tells of a storytelling contest of a group of about 30 pilgrims as they travel through England. It is an extraordinary exploration of the pleasures, vices and spiritual aspirations of our lives. Source : Classics Network Editorial Team Writer, official and bureaucrat, the outstanding English poet before William Shakespeare. Chaucer is remembered as the author of Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. Although he spent one of two brief periods of disfavor, Chaucer lived the whole of his life close the centers of English power.

39. Chaucer, Geoffrey encyclopediaEncyclopedia chaucer, geoffrey, jef rE chô sur Pronunciation Key. Related content from HighBeam Research on geoffrey chaucer. http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE010359.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Memorial Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Chaucer, Geoffrey E u r] Pronunciation Key Chaucer, Geoffrey c. 1340 , English poet, one of the most important figures in English literature. Sections in this article: Introduction Life and Career Early Works Italian Period The Canterbury Tales ... Bibliography The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Chatterton, Thomas Related content from HighBeam Research on: Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (Archive Photos) Commentary: Remembering Geoffrey Chaucer (All Things Considered (NPR)) The stereotype confirmed? Chaucer's Wife of Bath.(Geoffrey Chaucer) (Essays and Studies) Literature in English: Geoffrey Chaucer (CHAW-suhr) (The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy) Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Suggestions For Further Reading And Research (Monarch Notes) 'To whom shul we compleyn?': the poetics of agency in Chaucer's complaints. (Geoffrey Chaucer)

40. MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, And Homework Article examines the author's roots, his early writings, and the significance of The Canterbury Tales. http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761562849

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