Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales

by Marijane Osborn

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806134031
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	08/28/2002
Series:	Science and Culture ; V. 5 Series , #5
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.