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40 Ibid., lines 2043-2045.
41 Ibid., line 2078.
42 Ibid., lines 2062-2072.
43 Susan Crane, Gender and Romance in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994), 182.
44 Kathleen Blake, “Order and the Noble Life in Chaucer's Knight's Tale?” Modern Language
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45 Boccaccio, Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, Book IX, line 4.
46 Chaucer, Knight’s Tale, lines 1085-1090.
47 Peter Brown and Andrew Butcher, The Age of Saturn: literature and history in the Canterbury
Tales (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), 31.
48 Chaucer, Knight’s Tale, lines 2454-2455.
49 Ibid., lines 2461-2462.
50 Brown and Butcher, The Age of Saturn.
51 CyberWorld Khaldea, Ephemeris 1300-1399, accessed April 10, 2011, http://www.khaldea.
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52 Stephanie Johnson, “The Essentials of Essential Dignities,” Astrological Journal 39.6 (1997):
2, accessed April 10, 2011, http://www.seeingwithstars.net/images/EssDig.pdf. For purposes of
this specific paper, further exploration of this particular line of inquiry is not practical, but it is
interesting.
53 Chaucer, Knight’s Tale, lines 2443, 2454.
54 Ibid., line 2455.
55 Alan T. Gaylord, “The Role of Saturn in the Knight’s Tale,” The Chaucer Review 8 (1974):
174, accessed March 10, 2011, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25093266.
56 Dorothy Bethurum Loomis, “Saturn in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale,” in Chaucer und seine Zeit:
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englische Philologie (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1968), 159.
57 Chaucer, Knight’s Tale, lines 1085-1090.
58 Gaylord, “The Role of Saturn in the Knight’s Tale,” 184.