A Consistent Time Frame for Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage
- Author / Editor
- Kummerer, K. R.
A Consistent Time Frame for Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage
- Published
- Journal of the British Astronomical Society 11.4: 203-13, 2001.
- Description
- Discusses seven "celestial assertions" in CT and the reference to April 18 to show that Chaucer "accurately describes the celestial conditions he observed" in southeast England. Astronomical evidence indicates that the CT pilgrimage ends on April 18, 1391, "as the sun was setting and Libra and the full moon were rising." Includes several charts and appendices, including a "description and application of the astrolabe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.