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I am currently director of the MA in Medieval Studies. Please contact me if you have any queries about this programme.

In semester 1, 2011-12, I will be teaching my Level 2 Chaucer course. I am also running a new course at Level 3 / MA level, with the title Poetry and Selfhood, 1330-1550. This will be about the development of the authorial voice, the speaking 'I' in poetry in that period; it's a late medieval to early modern crossover course. At MA level, this will replace my course on Troilus and Criseyde; at Level 3, it replaces the course on Medieval Romance. 

ENGL20121 Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts

ENGL 32061 Poetry and Selfhood, 1330-1550 (this is also my MA course)

Below are some general links which students in Medieval Studies will find of interest.

Harvard University's Chaucer Page

Chaucer MetaPage (resources, including audio, and useful further links)

Edwin Duncan's Chaucer Pages (audio, video and useful further links)

The Labyrinth (resources for medieval studies)

Luminarium (resources for medieval studies)

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

The opening lines of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales in Caxton's first edition of 1477. Images on my pages are all taken from manuscripts and printed books in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. They are reproduced by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester.