The First Technical Writer in English : A Challenge to the Hegemony of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Hagge, John.

Title
The First Technical Writer in English : A Challenge to the Hegemony of Chaucer

Published
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 20 (1990): 269-89.

Description
By adducing several Middle English prose texts prior to Chaucer's Astr, Hagge refutes claims that Astr represents the first piece of technical writing in English.

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe.