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Chaucer and the Universe of Learning
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Ann W. Astell
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Astell examines the conventions of medieval learning familiar to Chaucer and discovers in two related topical outlines, those of the seven planets and of the di
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Language: en
Pages: 510
Authors: Piero Boitani
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to
Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Marijane Osborn
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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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 wi
Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Peter W. Travis
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-01 - Publisher: Modern Language Association

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer sc
Chaucer's Philosophical Visions
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Kathryn L. Lynch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.