'I n'am but a lewd compilator': Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' as Translation
- Author / Editor
- Lipson, Carol [S.]
'I n'am but a lewd compilator': Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' as Translation
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 84 (1983): 192-200.
- Description
- No more than a fraction of Astr is translated; the largest part is Chaucer's own "practical prose." In the "translated" sections Chaucer expanded his source by a factor of eight; thus his version is hardly a "translation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.