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Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales Marijane Osborn
Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales
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.
372 pages, 60 black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 26, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780806134031 |
| Publishers | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Pages | 372 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 28 mm · 653 g |
| Language | English |