Figures for "Gretter Knowing": Forms in the "Treatise on the Astrolabe."

Author / Editor
Cooper, Lisa H.

Title
Figures for "Gretter Knowing": Forms in the "Treatise on the Astrolabe."

Published
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 99-124.

Description
Claims that Astr shares with Chaucer's "literary" works a deep conceptual investment in form and is more than a technical manual. Astr layers textual, celestial, and technological forms (book, cosmos, and astrolabe) in a dynamic relationship with Lowys's body.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Subversion of Form.

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe