Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-314) and index
Taking bearings. Chaucer's sky ; The steed of brass and Chaucer's astrolabe ; Using the astrolabe on the road to Canterbury ; Mercury the sly and the Bradshaw Shift -- Applications. The amphitheater in The knight's tale ; The spheres and pagan prayer in The knight's tale ; Cosmic retribution in The miller's tale -- Implications. Chaucer's attitude toward prophecy and planetary influences ; The artificial day of pilgrimage ; Libra and the moon : some final speculations