Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe': A Handbook for the Medieval Child
- Author / Editor
- Jambeck, Thomas J., and Karen K. Jambeck
Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe': A Handbook for the Medieval Child
- Published
- Children's Literature 3 (1974): 177-22.
- Description
- Praises the stylistic appropriateness of Astr to its youthful audience, showing how Chaucer adapts the lexicon, syntax, and rhetoric of Massahalla to be more suitable to his ten-year-old son, Lewis. Chaucer relies on native rather than Latinate vocabulary, incorporates concrete details, streamlines syntax, and increases pedagogical effectiveness through various strategies of simplification, amplification, and repetition.
- Contributor
- Jambeck, Karen K.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Style and Versification