Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

ISBN-13: 9780806134031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 372 str.

Marijane Osborn

Opis

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.