Chaucer and The Middle Ages - A Library Guide

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SEARCHING FOR BOOKS

To search for books, identify a subject term from the Library of Congress Subject Headings and enter it in the search box of the online library catalog as a subject. For example, consider using the following subject headings: Middle Ages—History, Europe History 476-1492, Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 Civilization Medieval, English literature Middle English 1100-1500 History and criticism. For specific authors use author name Criticism and interpretation (e.g. chaucer criticism and interpretation). You may also search by keyword and then identify and ‘follow’ linked subject headings included in the catalog record.

Or browse the following Dewey numbers located in the stacks of the Library: 821.1 Chaucer criticism and interpretation, 940.1 Europe History 476-1492.

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REFERENCE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

R 809.005 C569
Classical and medieval literature criticism
(56 volumes)
Gale Research Company

R 809.1 P7529
Poetry Criticism (Between 50 and 100 Volumes)
Gale Research Company
R 820.9 C144

R 820.9 C144
The Cambridge History of English literature (15 volumes, #14 missing)
Ward, Adolphus William, Sir, 1837-1924.
Also available in the public domain @ http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

R 821.103 C393t
A concordance to the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer and to the Romaunt of the Rose Tatlock
(John Strong Perry), 1876-1948.

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R 901.92 C144
The Cambridge medieval history (8 volumes)
Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927

R 909.07 D561
Dictionary of the Middle Ages 13 volumes
Strayer, Joseph Reese, 1904-

R 940.1 N42
The New Cambridge medieval history
McKitterick, Rosamond

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SEARCHING FOR ARTICLES

To search for articles, consider the following databases, links to which may be found at the library Web Page: http://library.morningside.edu/index.htm

Academic Search Premier by EBSCO accesses over 4,600 full-text publications including 3,500 peer reviewed journals.

MLA Bibliography by FirstSearch provides more than 1,000,000 citations pertaining to
literature, language, linguistics and folklore. The FirstSearch interface identifies those articles that may be available in our library in print as full-text.

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FROM THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Dr Wheeler’s Website
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/index.html

Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms
By Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/index.html

Online Literary Criticism Collection: British Pre –1500
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?pd=British:+Pre-1500

Medieval History Resources
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

NetSERF- The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
http://www.netserf.org/
                                                                      

Chaucer Metapage
http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/

The New Chaucer Society
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/

A Chaucer Glossary
http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer/glossary.asp

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