Optional Reading / Viewing:

Harvard's Chaucer site:

https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/

Medieval manuscripts:

We recommend you watch this six minute video on how medieval manuscripts were made: https://youtu.be/nuNfdHNTv9o

A Scholarly Take or Two:

https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/reference-approaching-medieval-texts/

• Fabliaux / Miller’s Tale:
  https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/

• Reeve’s Tale / Fabliaux
  https://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/articles/reeves_tale.htm

• Reeve’s Tale and an Old French Analogue
  http://people.bu.edu/bobl/fabliaux.htm

• Reeve's refers to the Gospel of Matthew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_and_the_Beam

Information on a new app on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:

https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2020/canterbury-tales-is-first-major-literary-work-developed-as-an-app.php

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-app-guides-readers-through-canterbury-tales-180974134/

A New App Guides Readers Through Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

www.smithsonianmag.com

The tool includes a 45-minute audio performance of the work's General Prologue in Middle English.

The reader is Terry Jones.

The desktop version is here:   http://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/.

From NH:

...a 2019  novel that I have begun reading:

https://www.amazon.ca/This-Passing-World-Geoffrey-Chaucer-ebook/dp/B083JNG8GD/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Michael+Herzog+this+passing+world%3A+a+novel&qid=1620749294&sr=8-1

I have been reading the Kindle edition, which is not very expensive. It took me awhile to appreciate the novel, but about 15% of the way into I became very interested in it. The author taught Chaucer for 30 years at a university in Washington State, so maybe it has some scholarly validity to it: https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/stories/2019/9/19/professor-michael-herzog-pens-historical-novel-on-geoffrey-chaucer

Professor Michael Herzog Pens Historical Novel on Geoffrey Chaucer | Gonzaga University

www.gonzaga.edu

Professor Michael Herzog Pens Historical Novel on Geoffrey Chaucer

It purports to be a journal that Chaucer wrote in his later years (1398-1400), which had been  discovered in London in 2015. So far, it is mostly about his relationship with John of Gaunt. The novel became really interesting to me when the narrator's [this fictional Chaucer's] account turned to the story of his marriage to Philippa de Roet, which has an interesting relationship to the Knight's Tale. I am now 33% into the novel

Finally, just for fun:

1. The Canterbury Tales 01 out of 3: Leaving London (1998) Russian/ Welsh animation, English subtitles. Part 1 of the series you can see on YouTube:
   https://youtu.be/NLRW91mNMK0

2. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath animated: https://youtu.be/e3cvOm7qStk

3. From LH: It’s a wonderful short story by Margaret Atwood called “Impatient Griselda” that has a feminist twist on The Clerk’s Tale about Griselda. It’s above in a pdf file but you can also access it at this link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/margaret-atwood-short-story.html