{"id":5331,"date":"2026-04-26T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:23:38","slug":"chaucers-use-of-astronomy-in-the-canterbury-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/chaucers-use-of-astronomy-in-the-canterbury-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaucer&#8217;s Use of Astronomy in the Canterbury Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xTY8pwCkBo?si=3mQFsAWwCOARM5T6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video is an adaptation of one of my more recent SCA classes. It was prepared for a <a href=\"https:\/\/b3r.calontir.org\/gryphons-fest-2025\/\">Canterbury Tales themed event<\/a> last September, but I&#8217;d held off on converting it into a video, because I thought it would be appropriate to release the video on April 18th: The date of the pilgrimage Chaucer gives. Unfortunately, a bunch of real life got in the way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is an adaptation of one of my more recent SCA classes. It was prepared for a Canterbury Tales themed event last September, but I&#8217;d held off on converting it into a video, because I thought it would be appropriate to release the video on April 18th: The date of the pilgrimage Chaucer gives. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/chaucers-use-of-astronomy-in-the-canterbury-tales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chaucer&#8217;s Use of Astronomy in the Canterbury Tales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-before-the-telescope"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZpvC-1nZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}