Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales

Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales - Science and Culture

Hardback (30 Aug 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780806134031
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.1
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 350
Weight: 658g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 28mm