This resource has everything you could possibly want to know about the Aeneid-- it has the history of Virgil, interpretations of the piece, the piece itself, an analysis of characters, etc. It is loaded with information :)
The Canterbury Tales and the Medieval Tradition of Encyclopedic Works. The huge masterpiece by Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, comes from a tradition of long, encyclopedic style works in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Philosophers and theologians in the Middle Ages, particularly in the 12 and 1300s, wrote "sums" of all their knowledge concerning philosophy or...