The Twelve-Spoked Wheel of the 'Summoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Pulsiano, Phillip.

Title
The Twelve-Spoked Wheel of the 'Summoner's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 382-89.

Description
The ending of SumT parodies the "division of the winds," a problem for the medieval natural sciences that Chaucer notes in Astr.
Manuscript illustrations on the four cardinal and eight secondary winds took the form of a wheel with spokes.
Chaucer uses this configuration in SumT both farcically and literally.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.
Treatise on the Astrolabe.