Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales by Osborn, Marijane

Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780806134031)

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Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales by Osborn, Marijane

Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

$69.95
Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales by Osborn, Marijane

Time and the Astrolabe in the Cantebury Tales

$69.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Marijane Osborn
ISBN-10: 0806134038
ISBN-13: 9780806134031
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2002
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.36w x 1.16d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2003 pg. 1185

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