High Tides and The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Donald W., Edgar S. Laird, and Thomas E. Lytle.
High Tides and The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Sky and Telescope 99.4: 44-49, 2000.
- Description
- Correlates the disappearance of the rocks in FranT to an extremely high tide that occurred on December 19, 1340, perhaps the year of Chaucer's birth. Calculates the date using the Toledan or Alfonsine Tables known to Chaucer. The clerk in FranT knows of the astrological explanation but in no way causes the disappearance.
- Contributor
- Lytle, Thomas E.
- Laird, Edgar S.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.