| Author/Contributor(s): | Osborn, Marijane |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Date: | 08/26/2002 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Marijane Osborn demonstrates that Chaucer structured the Canterbury Tales after the astrolabe, an Arabic Islamic time-keeping device. Chaucer's fascination with this device also accounts for the sense of time and astronomy in the Tales.