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Look at the tales themselves. Compare the Middle English and the Modern English texts

ELF Presents the Canterbury Tales:

http://www.canterburytales.org/canterbury_tales.html

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Learning about Chaucer

Published on Nov 28, 2015

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Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales
Look at the tales themselves. Compare the Middle English and the Modern English texts

ELF Presents the Canterbury Tales:

http://www.canterburytales.org/canterbury_tales.html

The Rise of the Middle Class

We are all free men (B. Raffel translation)
What was English society like in Chaucer's time, how was it changing?

Harvard University's Chaucer page with background materials.

http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

The University of Alaska's Chaucer page.

http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/pedagogy.htm

Pilgrimage to Canterbury

Who was Thomas Becket
Who was Thomas Becket and why was he so popular with the English people (the common people especially).

What Wikipedia has to say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket

What the Learning History site has to say.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/thomas_becket.htm

An eyewitness account.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/Grim-becket.asp
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Chaucer and English Poetry

Making it rhyme
How did English poetry change after Chaucer?
What some important people have to say)

Poets.org

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1870

Oxford University

http://writersinspire.org/content/geoffrey-chaucer-father-modern-english

The College Board

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/homepage/21974.html

The Luminarium (look at articles on other poets and see how they were different).

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucerbio.htm

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Who Came on the Journey

The Prologue and who we find there
Who were these folks?

Pace University's suggestions

http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/prjs3c/analysis.htm

Cal Poly's thoughts

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl203/gp203.html

The Knight's Tale

Chivalry and Ancient Greece
Some important things to know about this tale.

What The Luminarium has to say.

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/knight.htm

The Pardoner

Who was this guy, was he really a churchman
What were the different jobs found within the church?

Cal-Poly has some information:

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl430/pardoner/whatsapardoner.html

St. John's University has this this to say.

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

What San Francisco University has to say.

http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/Volume5/Kaiser.html
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The Miller

A very vulgar fellow
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