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Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales

Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Marijane Osborn
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134031
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Book Description
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.