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Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales (2002)(en)(320s)

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Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales (2002)(en)(320s)

English | 2002 | ISBN: 0806134038 | 369 Pages | PDF | 19.2 MB

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.