Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

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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.