Astronomical Lore in Chaucer
Author: Florence Marie Grimm
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Florence Marie Grimm
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 96
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Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781318014897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Florence M. Grimm
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marijane Osborn
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780806134031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarijane 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: Monica E. McAlpine
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780802059130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the first of the Canterbury Tales, the Knight's Tale has been the subject of a vast body of comment by scholars and lay readers. Monica McAlpine provides access to this material in the first of the Chaucer Bibliographies series to deal with a narrative portion of that author's best-known work.
Author: Peter Goodall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009-02-21
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 1442691905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf all the stories that comprise The Canterbury Tales, certain ones have attracted more attention than others in terms of literary scholarship and canonization. The Monk's Tale, for instance, was popular in the decades after Chaucer's death, but has since suffered critical neglect, particularly in the twentieth century. The opposite has occurred with the Nun's Priest's Tale, which has long been one of the most popular and widely discussed of the tales, cited by some critics as the most essentially 'Chaucerian' of them all. This annotated bibliography is a record of all editions, translations, and scholarship written on The Monk's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale in the twentieth century with a view to revisiting the former and creating a comprehensive scholarly view of the latter. A detailed introduction summarizes all extant writings on the two tales and their relationship to each other, giving a sense of the complexity of Chaucer's seminal work and the unique function of its component stories. By dealing with these two tales in particular, this bibliography suggests the complicated critical reception and history of The Canterbury Tales.
Author: Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1137523913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780806134130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Treatise the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer is the work of an avid amateur astronomer who happened also to be England’s greatest medieval poet. A user of the astrolabe can plot the movement of the stars, tell time, and calculate numerous other results. Chaucer translated and revised a standard Latin treatment of the astrolabe. His treatise, which is generally regarded as one of the first technical manuals in English and a model of how technical manuals should be written. Not since 1872 has a free-standing edition of A Treatise the Astrolabe been published. Thanks to the expertise of its editor, Sigmund Eisner, who supplies sixty-eight illustrations, this Variorum edition provides a more detailed exposition than previously available. Eisner’s extensive labors result in the first complete record of textual variants found in the thirty-two surviving manuscripts of the work and in all the major printed text published between 1532 and 1987. This landmark edition also presents a thorough digest of all published commentary on Chaucer’s treatise. Amplified by sixty-eight illustrations, this variorum edition of Chaucer’s A Treatise on the Astrolabe provides a more detailed exposition of the treatise than has ever before been available.
Author: John David North
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 620
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study reveals for the first time the full extent of Chaucer's use of astronomy in his work and sheds new light on the poet's character, literary techniques, and wider purposes. Part I discusses the physical, astronomical, astrological, and geomantic elements of Chaucerian cosmology, providing an introduction to the history of the techniques of medieval astronomy, and argues that Chaucer was indeed the author of the treatise on the equatorium. Part II identifies astronomical allegory in more than a dozen of Chaucer's works.