Spatial Relations in Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'

Author / Editor
Nagucka, Ruta.

Title
Spatial Relations in Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'

Published
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Middle English Miscellany: From Vocabulary to Linguistic Variation (Poznan: Motivex, 1996.), pp. 233-44.

Description
Assesses the spatial prepositions in Astr, arguing that the availability of the instrument to the audience of Astr made it possible for Chaucer to use imprecise indicators of space, that the prepositions used are "semantically transparent," and that Astr marks a stage in the conceptual separation of "in" and "on."

Alternative Title
Middle English Miscellany: From Vocabulary to Linguistic Variation.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Treatise on the Astrolabe.