Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales
Marijane OsbornMarijane 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.
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Jahr:
2002
Verlag:
University of Oklahoma Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
372
ISBN 10:
0806134038
ISBN 13:
9780806134031
Serien:
Series for Science and Culture
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english, 2002