Chaucer and Friends: The Audience for the Treatise on the Astrolabe

Author / Editor
Laird, Edgar [S.]

Title
Chaucer and Friends: The Audience for the Treatise on the Astrolabe

Published
ChauR 41 (2007): 439-44.

Description
Given its resonance with references to duties of friendship that preface many astrolabe treatises, Chaucer's reference to his young son Lewis as his "frend" may accede to the wishes of adult friends who also wished for "a companionable guide to astronomy."

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe