Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury TalesUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2002 - 350 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Chaucers Sky II | 11 |
The Steed of Brass and Chaucers Astrolabe | 34 |
20 | 45 |
Using the Astrolabe on the Road to Canterbury | 55 |
3 | 64 |
Mercury the Sly and the Bradshaw Shift | 88 |
IX | 95 |
Cosmic Retribution in The Millers Tale | 177 |
Chaucers Attitude toward Prophecy | 195 |
The Artificial Day of Pilgrimage | 220 |
Libra and the Moon Some Final Speculations | 244 |
A Practice Astrolabe | 271 |
Notes | 279 |
Works Cited | 325 |
| 343 | |
The Amphitheater in The Knights Tale | 123 |
The Spheres and Pagan Prayer in The Knights Tale | 153 |
Common terms and phrases
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