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.
- ISBN13 9780806134031
- Publish Date 30 August 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 372
- Language English