Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

by Marijane Osborn

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806134038
• ISBN13: 9780806134031
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"