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Astronomy/Astrology
matter of "judicial astronomy," and the subject of considerable debate not unlike the modern debate over "nurture" and "nature." See Chaucer's remarks on the ascendent in The Astrolabe (pp. 670-71 of the Riverside Chaucer.) For a further explanation, see The Planets...
The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale
A "geldyng" is a eunuch, and a "mare" is a cant name for a homosexual. Walter Clyde Curry, in an influential work on Chaucer and the Medieval Sciences, New Haven, 1926 [Widener 12422.165, Lamont PR1933.S3 C8], pp. 59-70, argues that the Pardoner is a eunuch, a "...
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