Astronomical References in Chaucer: What Can Modern Students Learn from Studying Ancient Texts?

Author / Editor
Kennedy, Victor.

Title
Astronomical References in Chaucer: What Can Modern Students Learn from Studying Ancient Texts?

Published
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 2.1-2 (2005): 139-54.

Description
Draws examples and discussion from Astr to argue that modern teachers of literature should "look to history, cross boundaries between academic fields, and use practical, as well as theoretical,teaching methods" (quotation from abstract at http://www.sdas.edus.si/Elope/abstracts2.pdf).

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe