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TIME AND THE ASTROLABE IN THE CANTERBURY TALE5 Series for Science and Culture EDITOR, SERIES FOR SCIENCE AND CULTURE Robert Markley, West Virginia University ADVISORY BOARD Sander G~lman,Cornell University Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz N. Katherine Hayles, University of CaLfornia, Los Angeles Bruno Latour, Ecole Nationale SupCrieure des Mines and University of California, San Diego Richard Lewontin, Harvard University Michael Morrison, University of Oklahoma Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine G. S. Rousseau, University of Aberdeen Donald Worster, University of Kansas TIME AND THE ASTROLABE I N THE CANTERBURY TALE5 Marijane Osborn University of Oklahoma Press : Norman Other Books by Marijane Osborn (with Stella Longland) Rune Games (London, 1982) Beom& A Erse Transhtion with Treasuresfrom the Ancient North (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1983) Beowu& A Cuide to Study (Los Angeles, 1986) (with Randolph Swearer and Ray Oliver) Beom& A Likeness (New Haven, 1990) (with Gillian Overing) Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World (Minneapolis, 1994) Romancing the Goddess:Three Middle English Romances about Women (Urbana, Ill., 1998) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Osborn, Marijane. Time and the astrolabe in the Canterbury tales / Marijane Osborn. p. cm. -(Series for science and culture ; v. 5) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-8061-3403-8 (hardcover :alk. paper) I. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales. 2. Time in literature. 3. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. 4. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 140-Views on time. 5. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 140-Technique. 6. Tales, MecLeval-History and criticism. 7. Astrolabes in literature. 8. Rhetoric, Medieval. 1.Title. 11.Series: Series for science and culture ; v. 5. PR1875.T55083