Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Lyne Oriental' : Mediterranean and Oriental Languages in the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'

Author / Editor
Aloni, Gila, and Shirley Sharon-Zisser.

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Lyne Oriental' : Mediterranean and Oriental Languages in the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'

Published
Mediterranean Historical Review 16.2: 69-77, 2001.

Description
Describes Chaucer's use of Arabic and Hebrew diction in Astr as "horizontal multilingualism," i.e., "not colonialist or Orientalist."

Contributor
Sharon-Zisser, Shirley.

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