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Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue & Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale

Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue

Fragment III / Group D
The Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's Prologue & Tale

Fragment IV / Group E
The Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
 
Fragment V / Group F
The Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's Prologue & Tale

Fragment VI / Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, & Tale

Fragment VII / Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue & Tale
The Prologue & Tale of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
 
Fragment VIII / Group G
The Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue & Tale

Fragment IX / Group H 
The Manciple's Prologue & Tale

Fragment X / Group I
The Parson's Prologue & Tale
The Retraction

Additional Pages in The Electronic Canterbury Tales

• Chaucer the Pilgrim Narrator & Author
• Chaucer's "Orphan" Pilgrims
• The Frame Tale, Later Continuations, & Apocrypha
• Manuscripts, Printed Editions, & e-Texts
• Electronic Chaucer Texts: What's Available Online?
• Chaucer in / and Popular Culture
• Documentation Primer
• Chaucer Pedagogy Page
  
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Recent Additions - as of 09 August 2006

August 2006

Although not Chaucer related, the Archimedes Palimpsest, detailing the efforts of scientists and scholars to recover the earliest Greek text of Archimedes' The Method, Stomachion, and On Floating Bodies beneath the text of a 10th century prayer book, is a fascinating website describing state-of-the art conservation and recovery technologies applied to a medieval manuscript. Well worth a look.

Although a commercial site, billyandcharlie.com, specialists in pewter, has affordable and lovely modern reproductions of pilgrim badges and ampullae from medieval Canterbury, including:

• The Head of Thomas a Becket
• The Sword the Killed Becket
• The St. Thomas Qutrefoil
• Large Becket Ampulla

I receive no royalties from billyandcharlie.com sales, unfortunately.

Gallica, the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), has also made available online page images of a number of older, out of copyright journals related to Chaucer and medieval studies, like:

• University of Toronto Quarterly (1895-96)
• Modern Language Notes (1886-1915)
• Modern Philology (1904-35)
• Romanic Review (1910-35)
• Studies in Philology (1907-35)
• Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1873-1935)

Some of the absolutely classic Chaucer-related articles from these journals include:

• J.S.P. Tatlock, "Chaucer and Dante," Modern Philology 3 (Jan 1906): 367-72.
• C. F. Brown, "Chaucer's 'Litel Clergeon'," Modern Philology 3 (Apr 1906), 467-92.

Click on Périodiques to go to a full listing of BNF online journals (most of which are in French). These are large, generally slow loading graphical images, but are valuable nonetheless.

Gallica, the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, has made available online page images of an invaluable source, the Acta Sanctorum (Deeds of the Saints), from the Bollandist Society:

• Acta sanctorum ianuarii
• Acta sanctorum februarii
• Acta sanctorum martii
• Acta sanctorum aprilis
• Acta sanctorum maii
• Acta sanctorum junii
• Acta sanctorum julii
• Acta sanctorum augusti
• Acta sanctorum septembris
• Acta sanctorum octobris
• Acta sanctorum novembris

Click "Periodiques" at the main page, and scroll down to "Religions chretiennes"

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (University College, Cork) houses cornucopia of material related to medieval Ireland, many in modern English translation, including:

• The Annals of Ulster AD 431-1201 (HTML & PLAIN)
• The Annals of Ulster AD 1202-1378 (HTML & PLAIN)
• The Annals of Ulster AD 1379-1541(HTML and PLAIN)
• Chronicon Scotorum (HTML & PLAIN)
• St. Columba
  • On the Life of Saint Columba [Betha Choluim Chille] (W. Stokes) (HTML & PLAIN)
  • The Life of Columba, written by Adamnan (W. Reeves)(HTML & PLAIN)
  • Monks' Rules of Columbanus (G. S. M. Walker) (HTML & PLAIN)
  • Sermons of Columbanus (G. S. M. Walker) (HTML & PLAIN)
  • Letters of Columbanus (G. S. M. Walker) (HTML & PLAIN)
• The Irish Lives of Guy of Warwick & Bevis of Hampton (HTML & PLAIN)
• The Irish Version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius (HTML & PLAIN)
• The Kildare Poems Modern English by A. Lucas (HTML and PLAIN)
• On the Life of Saint Patrick [Betha Phatraic] (W. Stokes) (HTML & PLAIN)
• On the Life of Saint Brigit [Betha Brigte] (W. Stokes)(HTML & PLAIN)
• Tidings of Doomsday (W. Stokes) (HTML & PLAIN)
• The Tidings of the Resurrection (W. Stokes) (HTML & PLAIN)
• The fifteen tokens of Doomsday (W. Stokes) (HTML & PLAIN)
• The vision of Laisrén (HTML & PLAIN)

As of 31 July 2006, CELT offered 649 texts (many from later periods of literature, and also in SGML).

July 2006: Major repairs, revisions, & additions:

1.  Major repair (more than 1200 broken links). 

2.  Added a number of miscellaneous links. 

3.  Deep linking to 

• The Canterbury Tales Project resources
• Essays in Medieval Studies online
• The Medieval Review online
• The 1995 Cultural Frictions conference at Georgetown U
• Paul Halsall's IMSB, "The Calamitous Fourteenth Century"
• Hallsall's Internet Jewish Sourcebook (on the ECT Prioress's Tale page)

4.  Although a commercial site, billyandcharlie.com, specialists in pewter, has affordable and lovely modern reproductions of pilgrim badges and ampullae from medieval Canterbury, including:

• The Head of Thomas a Becket
• The Sword the Killed Becket
• The St. Thomas Qutrefoil
• Large Becket Ampulla

I receive no royalties from billyandcharlie.com sales, unfortunately.

5.  Barbara Bordalejo, current director of the Canterbury Tales Project, has also generously made her two dissertations available online (unrevised):

The Phylogeny of the Tale-Order in the Canterbury Tales (NYU):

• Title
• Front matter
• Introduction
• Chapter I: A Historical Survey of the Scholarship Concerning the Tale-Order Problem
• Chapter II: A History of the Stemmatic Approach to the Criticism of Texts
• Chapter III: Stemmatic Analysis and Tale Order
• Chapter IV: Analysis of the Trees Produced Using Phylogenetic Software
• Chapter V: Relationship between the Tale-Order and the Word-Variant Stemmata
• Chapter VI: Codicological Analysis and Its Implications for the Tale-Order Problem
• Conclusions
• Works Cited

The Manuscript Source of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales and Its Place in the Textual Tradition of the Tales (DeMonfort U):

• Introduction
• Chapter I: A Historical Survey of Scholarship of Cx2, Especially Focused on the Problem of its Source
• Chapter II: Bibliographical Description: The St. John's College, Oxford Copy
• Chapter III: The Order of the Tales
• Chapter IV: Theoretical Aspects of Textual Variation
• Chapter V: Variants Single Lower Case Signatures (a to v)
• Chapter VI: Variants Double Lower Case Signatures (aa to ii)
• Chapter VII: Variants Single Upper Case Signatures (A to L)
• Conclusions
• Works Cited

Bordalejo also states, "Although these versions are thought to be the same as those publically available through University of Michigan, as a textual critic I am aware that 'textual control' is never as strict as one thinks. I would appreciate if you could contact me if you intend to quote from these works."

July 2006

Major repair (more than 1200 broken links). Added a number of miscellaneous links. 

Deep linking to 

• The Canterbury Tales Project resources
• Essays in Medieval Studies online
• The Medieval Review online
• The 1995 Cultural Frictions conference at Georgetown U
• Paul Halsall's IMSB, "The Calamitous Fourteenth Century"
• Hallsall's Internet Jewish Sourcebook (on the ECT Prioress's Tale page)

The Prioress's Tale evidences one of the most pernicious aspects of medieval culture: Its pervasive antisemitism. So, the tale explicitly invokes the multifaceted relationship of Christianity and Judaism.  Part of Paul Halsall's extensive Internet Medieval Source Book, the Internet Jewish History Source Book houses an extensive collection of primary sources related to the Jewish Middle Ages. Some of the extensive listing of documents under Christian Anti-Semitism / Latin Christianity, relating specifically to England include (lightly edited): 

• Gerald of Wales: Barnacle Geese Should Convince the Jew of the Immaculate Conception, 1188.
• Image: Jewish Usurers, from the Rotulus Judeorum, 1233
  An English caricature of Jews as coinclippers and and usurers.
• Thomas of Monmouth: The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich (excerpts), 1144. "One of the major accusations against Jews of the charge that they killed Christian children. This blood-libel was the center of a number of saint's cults. See the Catholic Encylopedia [1913] article William of Norwich for much background information. [Note that this article, while rejecting the Ritual Murder and Blood Libels, does end by suggesting that some of the cases were based on real incidents.]"
• The Abbey of St. Edmund’s and the Jews, 1173-1182
• Roger of Hoveden: Persecution of Jews Following Coronation of Richard I, 1189.
• Ephraim of Bonn: On the York Massacre of 1189-90. 

Continental and Papal pronouncements include:

• Ralph Glaber: The Year 1000 AD, from the Miracles de Saint-Benoit, (d.c. 1044) - discusses early 11th century anti-semitism.
• Soloman bar Samson: The Crusaders in Mainz, 1096. 
• Innocent III: Letter on the Jews - toleration, 1199. 
• Innocent III: Constitution for the Jews - toleration, 1199. 
• The Fourth Lateran Council: Canon 68 - on Jews.
• Pope Innocent III: The Keeping of Slaves by the Jews, 1204
• Gregory X  (r.1271-1276): Letter on the Jews 
• Martin V: From Declaration on Protection for the Jews, 1419. 
• Anti-Semitic Legends, Translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman, [At Pitt]

• Gilbert Crispin: Disputation of a Jew with a Christian about the Christian Faith, before 1096
• Anselm of Canterbury: How to Treat a Convert, before 1100
• Contact between English Jews and Christians: Two Twelfth-century Views
• An Israelite Bishop without Guile, c. 1168
• Gerald of Wales: A Witty Jew, c. 1185
• Henry II of England: Concerning Loans From The Jews
• The Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1182 (Account by Rigord from the Gesta Philippi Augusti).
• Richard I of England: Charter by Which Many Liberties are Granted and Confirmed to the Jews, 22 March, 1190
• English Jewry is Organised: The Ordinances of the Jews, 1194
• Appointment of an Archpriest of the Jews in England, July 1199 
• King John of England and the Jews: Charters, c.1201

I found another geocities.com website that houses a number of Chaucer essays:

• Authorizing the Reader in Chaucer's House of Fame by Laurel Amtower

• No Joke: Transcendent Laughter in the Teseida and the Miller's Tale by Timothy D. Arner

• "Wel bet is roten appul out of hoord": Chaucer's Cook, Commerce, and Civic Order by Craig E. Bertolet

• "Of Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyf": Confusion of Orifices in Chaucer's Miller Tale by Louise M. Bishop

• The Pardoner's Hyprocrisy of his Subjectivity by Robert Boenig

• Alma Redemptoris Mater, Gaude Maria, and the Prioress's Tale by Robert Boenig

• 'Shot Wyndowe; (Miller's tale, I.3358 and 3695): An open and shut case? by Peter Brown

• Chaucer's The Cook's Tale by Olga Burakov

• Performing the Prioress: "Conscience" and responsibility in studies of Chaucer's Prioress's tale by Michael Calabrese

• The Desolate Palace and the Solitary City: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Dante by Robert R. Edwards

• The Ending of Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale by P. J. C. Field

• Petrach, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale by John Finlayson

• "Little Troilus": Heroides 5 and its Ovidian contexts in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by Jamie C. Fumo

• Faux Semblants: Antifraternalism Reconsidered in Jean de Meun and Chaucer by G. Geltner

• The Summoner's Jankyn as an Artifical Fool by Stephen Harper
  The Name of Chaucer's Miller by Carole Hough

• Pastoral Histories: Utopia, Conquest, and the Wife of Bath's Tale by Patricia Clare Ingham

• 'Loo, lordes myne, heere is a fit!': The Structure of Chaucer's Sir Thopas by E. A. Jones

• What Ails Chaucers' Cook? Spiritual Alchemy and the Ending of The Canterbury Tales by Michael Kensak

• Apollo exterminans: The God of Poetry in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale by Michael Kensak

• "Myne by right": Oath Making and Intent in The Friar's Tale by Daniel T. Kline

• "And riden in Belmarye": Chaucer's General Prologue, Line 57 by Jeanne Krochalis

• The Mercantile (Mis)reader in the Canterbury Tales by Roger A. Ladd

• The Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale" by James H. Landman

• Romancing Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Levinas: Fortune, Moral Luck, and Erotic Adventure by J. Allan Mitchell

• Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and the Question of Ethical Monstrosity by J. Allan Mitchell

• Experience and the Judgement of Poetry: A Reconsideration of The Franklin's Tale by Gerald Morgan

• Hard Lords and Bad Food-service in the Monk's Tale by Scott Norsworthy

• Interpreting Female Agency and Responsibility in the Miller's Tale and the Merchant's Tale by Joseph D. Parry

• Chaucer's Rape, Southern Racism, and the Pedagogical Ethics of Authorial Malfeasance by Tison Pugh

• Queer Pandarus? Silence and Sexual Ambiguity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by Tison Pugh

• "The Summoner's Tale" and Proverbs 21.14 by Thomas Rand

• May in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's Tale by Christian Sheridan

• Speech, Circumspection, and Orthodontics in the Manciple's Prologue and Tale and The Wife of Bath's Portrait by Mel Storm

• Public Fantasy and the Logic of Sacrifice in The Physician's Tale by Michael Uebel

• A Woman in the Mind's Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer's Clerks's Tale by Robin Waugh

Michael Delahoyde has posted an eminently readable series of notes to the General Prologue and each of the Canterbury Tales at his Washington State U website:

• The General Prologue
• [The Plan of The Canterbury Tales]
• The Knight's Tale
• The Miller's Prologue and Tale
• The Reeve's Prologue and Tale
• The Cook's Prologue and Tale Fragment
• The Man of Law's Introduction, Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue
• The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
• The Friar's Prologue and Tale
• The Summoner's Prologue and Tale
• The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
• The Merchant's Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue
• The Squire's Introduction and Tale
• The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
• The Physician's Tale
• The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale
• The Shipman's Tale
• The Prioress' Prologue and Tale
• The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas
• The Tale of Melibee
• The Monk's Prologue and Tale
• The Nun's Priest's Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue
• The Second Nun's Tale
• The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale
• The Manciple's Prologue and Tale
• The Parson's Prologue and Tale
• Chaucer's Retraction
•  

The B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library at Long Island University has made available a number of images of the stunningly beautiful Ellesmere ms:

• The wordes of the hooste to the compaignye
• A leaf from the Parson's Tale
• A leaf from the Knight's Tale
• Another leaf from the Knight's Tale
• The prologe to the Clerkes Tale of Oxenford
• A leaf from the Wife of Bath's Prologue
• A leaf from the Frankelyn's Tale
• Another leaf from the Parson's Tale

You can easily see difference in quality of the El ms as compared to most other pre-1500 Chaucer ms. 

A number of images related to the Tales and CTales manuscripts:

• The "pilgrim steps" leading to Thomas Becket's tomb at Caterbury Cathedral (Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Loyola, Maryland).
• Stained glass image of St. Thomas Becket (Canterbury Cathedral, 13th century) (Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Loyola, Maryland).
• London's Inner Temple, the 'law school' where the Manciple is said to have served (A.567) and the Sergeant of Law would have been trained (A.309-30), has put online a concise account of its history and development.
• See images of the Hengwrt ms at the National Library of Wales website.
• See the detailed images at Kevin Kiernan's webpage (UKentucky) of 
  • (Hg) National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392 D
  • (El) Henry E. Huntington Library MS. El.26C.9
  • (La) British Library MS. Lansdowne 851
• The Huntington Library Press has released several images online in conjunction with their publication, The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by Herbert C. Schulz.

The University of Chicago has issued a centennial celebration that includes profiles of noted faculty, like J.M. Manley and Edith Rickert:

• "In 1924, John Matthews Manly proposed a systematic study of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, anticipating that the work "would necessarily require several years." Although the "several years" were to become sixteen, Manly and his collaborator, Edith Rickert, produced the eight-volume edition of The Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940) that was immediately hailed as the defining work in the field of Chaucerian studies."
• Their discoveries included University of Chicago Ms. 564, a "mid-fifteenth-century codex is one of fifty-seven relatively complete manuscript copies of the Tales and one of only two containing a passage from the 'Tale of Melibeus'."

David Scott Wilson-Okamura (East Carolina U) has developed a fine classroom exercise, with bibliography, illustrating Examples of Chaucerian Revision and "describing examples of authorial revision in the Canterbury Tales. Probably best used in conjunction with a facsimile of the Hengwrt manuscript." In Wilson-Okamura's own words, "Note: author buys Ralph Hanna's booklet theory of Hengwrt MS without reservation, ignores N. F. Blake at his peril." Also available as a .pdf file. 

From Barbara Bordalejo (Canterbury Tales Project - DeMontfort U), a fully searchable online edition of Caxton's two printed editions of the Canterbury Tales: Caxton's Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies. Search the page by page comparison of Caxton's two editions.

• See also Peter Robinson's (U of Birmingham) "Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury Tales and Other Medieval Texts," as well as a series of important essays on digital textuality, at the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium website. 

A real boon for scholars, the Canterbury Tales Project (Peter Robinson, U of Birmingham) has generously made available a series of articles and working papers describing the CTProject in detail, including the following:

• From The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers, Volume 1, ed. Norman Blake and Peter Robinson (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1993):

  • Norman Blake & Peter Robinson, "Preface" (pp. 1-4).

  • Norman Blake, "Editing the Canterbury Tales: An Overview" (pp. 5-18).

  • Peter Robinson & Elizabeth Solopova, "Guidelines for Transcription of the Manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's Prologue" (pp. 19-52).

  • Robert O'Hara & Peter Robinson, "Computer-assisted Methods of Stemmatic Analysis" (pp. 53-74).

  • Daniel Mosser, "A New Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales" (pp. 75-84).

  • Stephen Partridge, "The Canterbury Tales Glosses and the Manuscript Groups" (pp. 85-94).

• From The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers, Volume 2, ed. Norman Blake and Peter Robinson (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1997):

  • Norman Blake & Peter Robinson: "Preface" (pp. 1-4)

  • Norman Blake: "The Project's Lineation System" (pp. 5-14)

  • Simon Horobin: "Editorial Assumptions and the Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales" (pp. 15-21)

  • Beverly Kennedy: "Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants" (pp. 23-39)

  • Daniel W. Mosser: "The Language, Hands and Interaction of the Two Scribes of the Egerton 2726 Chaucer Manuscript (En¹⁾ (pp. 41-53)

  • Michael Pidd & Estelle Stubbs: "From Medieval Manuscripts to Electronic Text: A Transcriber's Tale" (pp. 55-59).

  • Michael Pidd, Estelle Stubbs & Claire E. Thomson: "The Hengwrt Canterbury Tales: Inadmissible Evidence?" (pp. 61-68)

  • Peter Robinson: "A Stemmatic Analysis of the Fifteenth-Century Witnesses to The Wife of Bath's Prologue" (pp. 69-132).

  • Elizabeth Solopova: "The Problem of Authorial Variants in The Wife of Bath's Prologue" (pp. 133-142).

  • Elizabeth Solopova: "Chaucer's Metre and Scribal Editing in the Early Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales" (pp. 143-164).

  • Reviews of the Variorum General Prologue; of The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions; of the Cowen/Kane edition of The Legend of Good Women (pp. 165-179).

• From the Canterbury Tales Project CDs:

  • Peter Robinson, "Editor's Introduction, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).

  • Peter Robinson and Norman Blake, "General Editors' Preface;" Elizabeth Solopova, Editor's Introduction;" Peter Robinson, "Analysis Workshop," The General Prologue on CD-ROM, ed. Elizabeth Solopova (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000).

  • Estelle Stubbs, "Editor's Introduction;" Daniel W. Mosser, "Manuscript Description;" Simon Horobin, "The Language of the Hengwrt Chaucer," From The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile, ed. Estelle Stubbs (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2000).

  • Peter Robinson, "Editor's Introduction" and "Rationale and Implementation of the Collation System Used on this CD-ROM," The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004).

• Other essays ("key documents") at the Canterbury Tales Project site:

  • Peter Robinson, "The History, Discoveries and Aims of the Canterbury Tales Project," The Chaucer Review 38:2 (2003) pp. 126-139. This is the prepublication version. The article summarizes project activities to 2003.

  • Peter Robinson and Elizabeth Solopova, "Guidelines for Transcription of the Manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's Prologue," from the Nun's Priest's Tale on CD-ROM (2006), fully explains "the transcription principles upon which the Canterbury Tales Project is based." 

  • Peter Robinson's "New methods of Editing, Exploring, and Reading The Canterbury Tales," was originally fashioned as a conference paper given at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome (28 May 1998).

  • Peter Robinson and Norman Blake, "General Editor's Preface," from The General Prologue on CD-ROM (2000), describes "a key change in project policy: not only 'to help editors edit' but also 'to help readers read'."

  • Peter Robinson, "Open Transcription Policy," takes an ethically important stance toward academic collaboration and peer review: "It is a vital principle of our work that the transcripts we make should be freely available to other scholars, for their use and modification. This document explains how we reconcile this with copyright considerations."

  • Peter Robinson, "Current Issues in Making Digital Editions of Medieval Texts — or, Do Electronic Scholarly Editions Have a Future?" Digital Medievalist 1.1 (2005). 

  • Peter Robinson, "Where We Are with Electronic Scholarly Editions, and Where We Want to Be?" Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie Online 1.1 (2005).  In print in Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 2004, 123-143.

• See also the excerpts from the editorial materials to the  Canterbury Tales Project's already-completed CD-ROMs:

  • Peter Robinson, "Editor's Introduction," from The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

  • Peter Robinson and Norman Blake, "General Editors' Preface;" Elizabeth Solopova, "Editor's Introduction;  & Peter Robinson, "Analysis Workshop," from The General Prologue on CD-ROM, ed. Elizabeth Solopova (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

  • Estelle Stubbs,  "Editor's Introduction;" Daniel W. Mosser, "Manuscript Description;" & Simon Horobin, "The Language of the Hengwrt Chaucer," from The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile, ed. by Estelle Stubbs (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2000). 

  • Peter Robinson, "Editor's Introduction" & "Rationale and Implementation of the Collation System Used on this CD-ROM," from The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM, ed. Peter Robinson (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004).

  • Barbara Bordalejo, "Editor's Introduction" & "Notes on the Caxton Canterbury Tales Editions and their Place in the Textual Tradition of the Tales," from Caxton's Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies, ed.  Barbara Bordalejo (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2003).