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Item Details
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THE KALENDARIUM OF JOHN SOMER
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| By: |
John Somer, Linne R. Mooney (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£96.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820320927 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820320922 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 February, 1999 |
| Series: |
Chaucer Library |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Translated from: |
Latin |
| Description: |
This work presents (in Latin and English) and examines the "Kalendarium" of the 14th-century astronomer, John Somer, the reference that Geoffrey Chaucer is thought to have consulted to relate dates, times, and movements of the stars and planets to events in his tales. |
| Synopsis: |
John Somer was one of the leading English astronomers of the late fourteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer likely consulted Somer s "Kalendarium" to relate dates, times, and movements of the stars and planets to events in his tales. In her introduction to this scholarly edition, Linne Mooney discusses not only Somer s importance but also Chaucer s use of the "Kalendarium" in composing his texts from "The Parliament of Fowls" through "The Canterbury Tales." She examines the thirty-three complete and nine fragmentary copies of the work known today and explains Somer s innovative and influential eclipse tables, adopted by some scribes in later copies of the "Kalendarium" of Nicholas of Lynn, a contemporary of Somer s. Somer s "Kalendarium" itself is presented in the original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. Mooney also provides full textual apparatus for the eleven complete manuscripts closest to the base text." |
| Illustrations: |
1 b&w photograph, 4 figures, 30 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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