A View of Chaucer's Astronomy

Author / Editor
Smyser, Hamilton M.

Title
A View of Chaucer's Astronomy

Published
Speculum 45 (1970): 359-73.

Description
Contrasts Chaucer's familiarity with and uses of astronomy and astrology with those of other Middle English authors, particularly John Gower. Indicates that 1380 is a turning point in Chaucer's uses of astral sciences, suggesting that he accepted the predictive value of astrology, and that astrology and astronomy can help to establish the dates and meanings of many of his works, particularly PF, Mars, TC, and MLT.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life
Parliament of Fowls
Complaint of Mars
Troilus and Criseyde
Miller and His Tale