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The target audience for this website are college students and/or fledging students of Chaucer and Medieval Studies. In keeping with this audience the goals/objectives for this web project were to compile a body of scholastic material in a friendly and non-intimidating way. This website's goal is not to merely put texts on the web, but aspires to use the resources and navigational abilities of the internet to compile information in an innovative and practically applicable way. A student just learning Middle English, might desire an English translation to fall back on, or need the translation to check their understanding of Middle English. This web site facilitates this sort of parallel text work with easy to use scrolling frames. Furthermore, a student studying a text in either Middle English or modern English may have need of accessing critical essays or research done on Chaucer. This web site allows students to be reading or referring to the primary text in one frame and call up in a parallel frame criticism corresponding to that text. This website also hopes to provide background material on Chaucer in a similar way. In conclusion this Chaucer website hopes to provide a practical and friendly navigational interface for use of a large body of Chaucer resources already on the web.
The Chaucer portrait found on the Background & History page is the property of Harvard University.
As for the criticism found on this site, I am deeply indebted to The Online Literary Criticism Collection for their compilation of Chaucer criticism online.
This website was created by Cathryn Meyer, a graduate student and aspiring Medievalist at the University of Texas at Austin
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