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Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

by Marijane Osborn
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780806134031
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
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  • Pages: 372
  • Original Price: USD 69.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 654 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Medieval

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.

Osborn, Marijane: -

Marijane Osborn is Professor of English at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Romancing the Goddess: Three Middle English Romancing about Women as well as coauthor or translator of six other books.

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