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University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Pages
350

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Subjects

Astrolabes in literature, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, History and criticism, Medieval Rhetoric, Medieval Tales, Technique, Time in literature, English literature, history and criticism, Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Time

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Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Taking Bearings 9
Chapter 1: Chaucer's Sky 1
Chapter 2: The Steed of Brass and Chaucer's Astrolabe 34
Chapter 3: Using the Astrolabe on the Road to Canterbury 55
Chapter 4: Mercury the Sly and the "Bradshaw Shift" 88
Part 2: Applications
Chapter 5: The Amphitheater in The Knights Tale 23
Chapter 6: The Spheres and Pagan Prayer in The Knight's Tale 153
Chapter 7: Cosmic Retribution in The Miller's Tale 77
Part 3: Implications 193
Chapter 8: Chaucer's Attitude toward Prophecy and Planetary Influences 195
Chapter 9: The "Artificial Day" of Pilgrimage 220
Chapter 10: Libra and the Moon: Some Final Speculations 244
Appendix: A Practice Astrolabe 271
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-314) and index.

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Science and culture

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Dewey Decimal Class
821/.1
Library of Congress
PR1875.T55 O83 2002, PR1875.T55O83 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 350 p. :
Number of pages
350

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OL3955213M
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ISBN 10
0806134038
LCCN
2001055697
OCLC/WorldCat
48516954
Library Thing
7136443
Goodreads
531305

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