The Bente Moone

Author / Editor
O'Neil, W. M.

Title
The Bente Moone

Published
AUMLA 43 (1975): 50-52.

Description
The stellar phenomenon of TC 3.624-25 certainly occurred in 1385, more likely May 12 (though Saturn was not quite in Cancer, something which Chaucer's Tables may have erred about) than June 9, when a crescent moon may not have been visible in London.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.