Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES

FAIN: FV-50138-07

Eastern Illinois University (Charleston, IL 61920-3099)
David Raybin (Project Director: March 2007 to June 2009)

Funding details:
Original grant (2007) $108,792.00
Supplement (2008) $7,590.00

A four-week summer seminar for fifteen school teachers on Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, to be held in England in London and in Canterbury.

We propose a four-week Seminar for School Teachers on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to be team-taught in England in London and Canterbury. The Seminar will explore how Chaucer looks out upon the world, as participants consider how his vivid ideas on human relationships and desires mesh with and yet challenge modern attitudes. As we progress through the tales, we will join together in making discoveries about the distance that separates us from the lived details of Chaucer's fourteenth-century England; about the continuities of artistry, philosophy, emotion, and meaning that render Chaucer's writings still important; and about the variety of responses to Chaucer that combine to achieve understandings inherently richer than those reached by reading alone. Participants will read the Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English, and we will visit historical sites relevant to an appreciation of the text.

Associated Products

Roundtable: Teaching Chaucer in the Secondary Schools (2): Methods and Standards (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Roundtable: Teaching Chaucer in the Secondary Schools (2): Methods and Standards
Author: Susanna Fein
Author: David Raybin
Abstract: Three teachers from the seminar will join with two Chaucer scholars in a roundtable on Teaching Chaucer in the Secondary Schools. The conference session was organized by the seminar directors, who will serve as moderators. The international congress is the world's largest gathering of Chaucer scholars and teachers.
Date: 7/24/2012
Primary URL: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/congress/congress2012call.php
Primary URL Description: This is the website for the New Chaucer Society 2012 Congress.
Conference Name: Eighteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society

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