The Twelve-Spoked Wheel of the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Pulsiano, Phillip.
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.