Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales by Marijane Osborn

Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

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Marijane Osborn

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nonfiction classics literary poetry medium-paced
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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.

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