Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

FAIN: FV-50203-09

Eastern Illinois University (Charleston, IL 61920-3099)
David Raybin (Project Director: March 2009 to June 2011)

A four-week school teacher summer seminar for sixteen participants on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, to be held in London.

We propose a four-week Seminar for School Teachers on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to be team-taught in London, England. The Seminar will explore how Chaucer looks out upon the world, as participants consider the relevance of Chaucer's poetry for readers now, that is, 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 in London, Canterbury, and Oxford relevant to an appreciation of the text.

Associated Products

Roundtable: Teaching Chaucer in the Secondary Schools (1): Contexts for Reading Chaucer (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Roundtable: Teaching Chaucer in the Secondary Schools (1): Contexts for Reading Chaucer
Author: Susanna Fein
Author: David Raybin
Abstract: Seven teachers from the seminar will join together 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.
Abstract: Seven teachers from the seminar will join together 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 annual conference is the world's largest gathering of medievalists.
Date: 7/24/2012
Primary URL: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/congress/congress2012call.php
Primary URL: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress
Primary URL Description: This is the address for the New Chaucer Society 2012 Congress.
Primary URL Description: This is the address for the New Chaucer Society 2012Congress.
Conference Name: Eighteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society
Conference Name: International Congress of the New Chaucer Society

In this mery companye: Reading, Writing, and Playing through Canterbury (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: In this mery companye: Reading, Writing, and Playing through Canterbury
Author: Emily Vail
Author: Luke Wiseman
Author: Maren Wilke
Abstract: Three participants in the seminar have organized a session on Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales at the 2011 NCTE Convention in Chicago.
Date: 11/19/2011
Primary URL: http://www.ncte.org/annual
Primary URL Description: This is the website for the National Council of Teachers of English.
Conference Name: NCTE Convention

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